Learning is primarily a matter of personal discipline students cannot be motivated by school or college alone

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Learning is primarily a matter of personal discipline; students cannot be motivated by school or college alone.

I totally agree with the statement. I think that without personal incentives to improve himself, a student can't learn the context taught in class well no matter how the school motivates him.

First, in order to learn well, students need to focus to what teachers say. Since people are easily distracted by other interesting things, if they don't really want to take the course, they won't pay enough attention to it. For example, many students in colleges have smart phones now. With it, people can do various things, such as playing games, watching videos and sending messages to their friends. Since professors in Taiwan usually don't interfere with what students do in class, those who don't have enough motivation would feel that it is more interesting to focus on their phones than to listen to the teachers, resulting in that those students don't learn anything after class.

Second, many professors in Taiwan only mention the main ideas and leave the details for students to understand because they don't have enough time to teach all of them. Therefore, if students want to learn well, they have to search for additional materials on their own. However, students won't do that if they are not interested in the course. For example, students major in computer science need to take a course named data structures and algorithms, which focus on several tools for people to write programs efficiently. Because there are too many different kinds of things to mention, teachers would only teach the most vintage ones which are sometimes the methods used in the past. Therefore, it requires students to search on the Internet and find out the newest ones.

Yet, someone would argue that if the schools offer enough motivations for students, they would be willing to learn. However, most of the colleges in Taiwan give money to students who get the best scores and use it as an incentive to encourage them to study. But the problem is that most of the grading system depends on tests, the result is that students would focus on how to perform better in tests such as memorizing the answers without understanding the reasons. Thus, the scores they get don't imply how much they understand the subjects.

To conclude, I think that students need motivation from themselves to learn well. Even if the schools and colleges offer various incentives for them, the key point is their willingness.

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Average: 6.2 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, really, second, so, therefore, thus, well, for example, i think, such as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 19.5258426966 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 14.8657303371 47% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 58.6224719101 101% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1991.0 2235.4752809 89% => OK
No of words: 402.0 442.535393258 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.95273631841 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47771567384 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45048108604 2.79657885939 88% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 215.323595506 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514925373134 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 582.3 704.065955056 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.727029824 60.3974514979 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.789473684 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1578947368 23.4991977007 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.10526315789 5.21951772744 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 7.80617977528 102% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.211832256948 0.243740707755 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.07127519251 0.0831039109588 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0670830822189 0.0758088955206 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.146854279856 0.150359130593 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0537415050973 0.0667264976115 81% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.1392134831 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 48.8420337079 137% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.43 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.62 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 100.480337079 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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