Claim: Group assignments that students must work together to complete should replace a
substantial amount of traditional lecture-based instruction in college and university
courses.
Reason: It is vital for students to gain experience collaborating with peers to study a topic
and to achieve a common goal.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the
claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
The statement states that traditional instruction in college and university courses should be replaced by group assignments in which the students can work together so they could learn from each others and learn how to collaborate to achieve a common goal. Personally I disagree with this statement since group assignments have many disadvantages and negative impact on the most of the student.
First, in group assignments students divide the work on them so each one will get to do one task. Therefore each student will learn just one part of the assignment while he would miss other important parts. However, in the traditional way each student have to do the homework by himself and that would make him learn every small details of the work. Foe example, if a group of student was required to do research about the concrete industry in Hebron City. Each student would do specific task maybe one student would have look for information about the method of making concrete other student have to search for how the concrete in transported and so one. In this case the first student learned nothing about the concrete transportation he only got information about making the concrete. and the same thing here happened for the other student.
Second, group most likely to consist of student with different levels and different capabilities, so that most students with fewer capabilities would rely on other group members to do the task for them and they may not do any work and learn nothing. On the other hand, if everyone is doing the task alone, he has to work by himself or nobody will do it for him. For the same concrete assignment example, if the student who has to find information about concrete transportation did not do his work, other group member will have to do it for him so they will not get a bad score and in this case that student learned nothing.
Of course, some would argue that group assignments make the students learn how to work as a team and even make their communication abilities batter. This is true and nobody can deny that, but group assignments has worse disadvantages which I mentioned before, and there are others better ways to achieve this like sports teams and other groups activities.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 99, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...em so each one will get to do one task. Therefore each student will learn just one part o...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 645, Rule ID: AND_SO_ONE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'and so on' (="etc.")?
Suggestion: and so on
...rch for how the concrete in transported and so one. In this case the first student learned...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 789, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: And
... information about making the concrete. and the same thing here happened for the ot...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, look, may, second, so, therefore, while, as to, of course, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 19.5258426966 26% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 30.0 33.0505617978 91% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 58.6224719101 82% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1860.0 2235.4752809 83% => OK
No of words: 382.0 442.535393258 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.86910994764 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42095241839 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61072341656 2.79657885939 93% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 215.323595506 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.452879581152 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 563.4 704.065955056 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 6.24550561798 32% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 20.2370786517 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.9440957015 60.3974514979 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.857142857 118.986275619 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.2857142857 23.4991977007 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.21428571429 5.21951772744 138% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 10.2758426966 39% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.255702811172 0.243740707755 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.114739479801 0.0831039109588 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0520501791328 0.0758088955206 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.184655228818 0.150359130593 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0591004043904 0.0667264976115 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 14.1392134831 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 48.8420337079 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 12.1743820225 103% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 12.1639044944 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.29 8.38706741573 87% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 100.480337079 56% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.