Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Grades (marks) encourage students to learn. Use specific examples to support your answer.
It is widely believed that grades can act as an incentive for students to study. In my opinion, this idea is rather absurd as marks make students lose motivation in their learning.
On the one hand, bad grades demoralize a student's will to learn. First of all, getting bad marks is associated with the feeling of complexity and shame among learners at schools. It would be a very terrible feeling to be the only one who gets the lowest marks in the whole class. As a result, those unfortunate students will develop a disinterest in learning. Additionally, self-doubt is likely to emerge for students who constantly get low marks, thus demotivating them from making progress in learning.
On the other hand, getting good grades does not stimulate students to study hard, either. Specifically, students with high academic achievements are bound to get a lot of pressure. It is a common sight to see parents as well as teachers expect their all-A students to keep up the pace, which in turn discourages them in their school work. Besides, marks seem to instigate the bad habit of cheating among idle students instead of studying hard as they are supposed to.
In conclusion, I would argue that grades are not a stimulus for students to learn owing to the negative effects that marks have on students' motivation.
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 83, Rule ID: AFFORD_VBG[1]
Message: This verb is used with infinitive: 'to owe'.
Suggestion: to owe
...re not a stimulus for students to learn owing to the negative effects that marks have...
^^^^^
Line 4, column 132, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...the negative effects that marks have on students motivation.
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, first, if, so, thus, well, in conclusion, as a result, as well as, first of all, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 1.0 10.4138276553 10% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 41.998997996 83% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1090.0 1615.20841683 67% => OK
No of words: 224.0 315.596192385 71% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.86607142857 5.12529762239 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.86867284054 4.20363070211 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72025600442 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 176.041082164 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.598214285714 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 333.0 506.74238477 66% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => 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: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.3848978597 49.4020404114 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 90.8333333333 106.682146367 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6666666667 20.7667163134 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.1666666667 7.06120827912 144% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.67935871743 35% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.9879759519 226% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.181018639242 0.244688304435 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.074218324371 0.084324248473 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0430674747834 0.0667982634062 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124583361161 0.151304729494 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0273787585797 0.056905535591 48% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.0946893788 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 50.2224549098 123% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.3001002004 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.4159519038 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.91 8.58950901804 92% => OK
difficult_words: 48.0 78.4519038076 61% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 83, Rule ID: AFFORD_VBG[1]
Message: This verb is used with infinitive: 'to owe'.
Suggestion: to owe
...re not a stimulus for students to learn owing to the negative effects that marks have...
^^^^^
Line 4, column 132, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...the negative effects that marks have on students motivation.
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, first, if, so, thus, well, in conclusion, as a result, as well as, first of all, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 1.0 10.4138276553 10% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 41.998997996 83% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1090.0 1615.20841683 67% => OK
No of words: 224.0 315.596192385 71% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.86607142857 5.12529762239 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.86867284054 4.20363070211 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72025600442 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 176.041082164 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.598214285714 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 333.0 506.74238477 66% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => 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: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.3848978597 49.4020404114 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 90.8333333333 106.682146367 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6666666667 20.7667163134 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.1666666667 7.06120827912 144% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.67935871743 35% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.9879759519 226% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.181018639242 0.244688304435 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.074218324371 0.084324248473 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0430674747834 0.0667982634062 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.124583361161 0.151304729494 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0273787585797 0.056905535591 48% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 13.0946893788 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 50.2224549098 123% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 11.3001002004 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.4159519038 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.91 8.58950901804 92% => OK
difficult_words: 48.0 78.4519038076 61% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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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.