Some people think that a person improves their intellectual skills more when doing group activities. To what extent do you agree? Use specific details and examples to explain your view.
In recent decades, many researchers have studied the importance of group-level cognition. Indeed, to my mind, there is now convincing evidence that group activities improve the intelligence of individuals. In this essay, I shall examine how research in team-games and study-groups supports this view.
To begin with, team-games clearly require individuals to perform a diverse range of rapid mental calculations. This is because, in a sporting context, players must predict and anticipate possible actions within tight time constraints. For example, a recent Cambridge study showed that soccer players can – within the span of seconds – calculate over a dozen different permutations that could result from a single soccer related action. Such predictive powers clearly improve players’ mental abilities and result from activities performed in a group context.
Secondly, study-groups enable individuals to obtain information that they could not acquire in isolation. This is because peer feedback allows individuals to refine their understanding of concepts and to also learn new information from other members in the study-group. For example, a study by The British Institute for Learning found that, if individuals participated in study-groups, they had a far more objective and sophisticated understanding of a topic than learners who were not part of study-groups. Therefore, it is certainly the case that learning in a group improves an individual’s mental abilities.
In conclusion, I strongly agree with the notion that group activities improve intellectual abilities. In the future, we will certainly see schools take greater measures to ensure that more group-level cognition occurs in the classroom.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to find', 'to found'
Suggestion: to find; to found
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'if', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'therefore', 'for example', 'in conclusion', 'to begin with']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.28275862069 0.247107183377 114% => OK
Verbs: 0.127586206897 0.155533422707 82% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0965517241379 0.0946595960268 102% => OK
Adverbs: 0.051724137931 0.0501214627716 103% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0275862068966 0.0437548338989 63% => OK
Prepositions: 0.137931034483 0.122226691241 113% => OK
Participles: 0.0206896551724 0.0403226058552 51% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.28987588711 2.80594681477 117% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0241379310345 0.0326793684256 74% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00163938923432 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0827586206897 0.0861772015684 96% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0206896551724 0.021408717616 97% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0137931034483 0.011925033212 116% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1729.0 1933.35771543 89% => OK
No of words: 255.0 316.048096192 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.78039215686 6.12580529183 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99608801488 4.20517956788 95% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.466666666667 0.374742101984 125% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.380392156863 0.28420135186 134% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.282352941176 0.203846283523 139% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.207843137255 0.137316102897 151% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.28987588711 2.80594681477 117% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 176.037074148 91% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.63137254902 0.56093040696 113% => OK
Word variations: 69.5055701867 60.7387585426 114% => OK
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0891783567 81% => OK
Sentence length: 19.6153846154 20.7743622355 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.6209382663 49.517814964 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.0 127.492653851 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6153846154 20.7743622355 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.692307692308 0.814263465372 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38877755511 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.99599198397 25% => OK
Readability: 57.6546003017 49.1944974215 117% => OK
Elegance: 2.13333333333 1.69124875643 126% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.1667526747 0.332605444948 50% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0912131591224 0.102741220458 89% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0590598781581 0.0668466124924 88% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.535280032608 0.534860350844 100% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.119945288383 0.148594505496 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0757397437625 0.134430193775 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0404471375214 0.0742795772207 54% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.256167306515 0.324371583561 79% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0137605980271 0.0638462369009 22% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11860132947 0.228012699653 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0198012393276 0.058150111329 34% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.68436873747 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.41683366733 88% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 5.90881763527 118% => OK
Negative topic words: 0.0 2.5751503006 0% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 3.0 1.9629258517 153% => OK
Total topic words: 10.0 10.4468937876 96% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.