After making a presentation in class, you want to evaluate it. Which of the following do you think would be better for you?
1. Watch the recording by yourself
2. Invite other attenders to discuss and give opinions.
Choosing a way to evaluate a presentation can sometimes be a tough pill to swallow. I personally subscribe to the theory that asking others in order to evaluate me would be a lot better for me. In the following paragraphs, I will illustrate my point of vie.
First and foremost, not everyone is capable of self-evaluation. We often view our performances such as class presentations as something that they are not in other word we tend to overestimate ourselves. On the contrary, different people have different thinking caps so by listening to others’ opinions we are provided with new perspectives and insights into our presentation; we can learn about our weaknesses and look at ourselves and our abilities of other people’s point of view. Consequently, we can spend some time focusing on our weaknesses and turn them into our strengths enlisting the helping hand of hard work and persistence. I remember last spring; I was supposed to give a lecture on applications of nano-structured materials in drug-delivery systems. I thought, I was pretty good at explaining the relevant terms, but when I asked my friends to listen to me while presenting, they told me that they had some difficulty keeping up with my pace and suggested that I should slow down. If I hadn’t asked for my friends’ opinions, I would have never been able to improve my presentation skills.
Secondly, It is common sense that being open to criticism is a very noble personality trait. People who are not afraid of being criticized by others, are more likely to become successful in their future career. Therefore, by asking others in order to evaluate one’s presentation, they’re being given the golden opportunity in order to become more tolerate to other people’s views of themselves. For instance, my uncle cannot stand others opinions, because he is not accustomed to it; my grandparents have always been so protective of him that they’ve never actually told him what they truly think of his actions. If my uncle have had the opportunity to have one of his presentations evaluated in a classroom, he wouldn’t have become so intolerant of what others think of him.
It is my foregone conclusion that being evaluated by others is a lot more beneficial than watching a recording of myself because I am not a good self-evaluator and others’ opinions might help me acknowledge my weaknesses and work on them in order to enhance the way I make presentations and it could be a great practice in order to become able to deal with criticism and others’ speculations.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, consequently, first, if, look, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, for instance, such as, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 15.1003584229 139% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 9.8082437276 102% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 69.0 43.0788530466 160% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 62.0 52.1666666667 119% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2138.0 1977.66487455 108% => OK
No of words: 429.0 407.700716846 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98368298368 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55107846309 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.15710322361 2.67179642975 118% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 212.727598566 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.519813519814 0.524837075471 99% => OK
syllable_count: 674.1 618.680645161 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 17.0 9.59856630824 177% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6003584229 78% => 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: 26.0 20.1344086022 129% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 85.8319351626 48.9658058833 175% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.625 100.406767564 133% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.8125 20.6045352989 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.75 5.45110844103 142% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.167850548001 0.236089414692 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0574488267383 0.076458572812 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0481632147859 0.0737576698707 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.126216682954 0.150856017488 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0447970697799 0.0645574589148 69% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 11.7677419355 131% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 58.1214874552 78% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 10.1575268817 132% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.9 10.9000537634 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.01818996416 101% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 86.8835125448 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.0537634409 123% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 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: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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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.