Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
Some students have poor study habits when they enter university or college.
All students should take required courses to develop good habits.
Study habits influence a student’s academic performance significantly. A good study habit keeps you passionate about study all day, while a bad study habit makes you lazy. Despite the importance of study habits, it is still unwise for schools to open compulsory study habit classes.
First, it is hard to define what is a good study habit and what is not. For different students, the way they perceive study greatly differs. Therefore, a student develops unique study habits that only suit him. For instance, a student may never take notes during class, which is obviously a poor study habit. But the student might take notes after class by memorizing what the professor said and taking down the key points he remembered. This study method may only work for this student, and it may serve him well. Do we have to force every student to take the same courses and develop similar study habits?
Second, good habits are developed naturally and rarely developed by taking required courses. Study habits are developed at an early age. Long before we went to kindergarten, our parents taught us to sit appropriately, write neatly, read often, and be polite. Such scenarios happened all the time, in daily life, not in classes. Therefore, parents are our very first study habit role models. Also, the older we are, the harder it is to get rid of bad study habits, even with required classes. Students may feel uncomfortable and lose study passion because they are forced to do things they don’t like.
Finally, even if the relative departments are determined to open the courses, not every student has to take them. There are still many distinguished students who developed excellent study habits over the years. In my opinion, these students are not supposed to attend the courses. On the contrary, they should be the role modern for those who suffer from bad study habits. If we want to improve a student’s study habits, one alternative solution is to find him a mentor, such as a distinguished peer. By studying with mentors, the student may gradually find a better study habit.
To conclude, students are not supposed to take compulsory study habit lessons. On the one hand, good study habits are personal matters that may not suit everyone. On the other hand, good study habits are formed naturally, not by forced classes. Finding a study habit mentor may work better than taking a required course.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, if, may, second, so, still, therefore, well, while, as to, for instance, such as, in my opinion, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 13.8261648746 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.0286738351 45% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 43.0788530466 67% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 52.1666666667 75% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2011.0 1977.66487455 102% => OK
No of words: 406.0 407.700716846 100% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95320197044 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48881294772 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53722438568 2.67179642975 95% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 212.727598566 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514778325123 0.524837075471 98% => OK
syllable_count: 641.7 618.680645161 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 7.0 3.08781362007 227% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.6003584229 131% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.1344086022 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 20.8978178973 48.9658058833 43% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 74.4814814815 100.406767564 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.037037037 20.6045352989 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.85185185185 5.45110844103 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.88709677419 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.431663606131 0.236089414692 183% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.144521346282 0.076458572812 189% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0792188882957 0.0737576698707 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.281724201969 0.150856017488 187% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0244444825429 0.0645574589148 38% => 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: 9.4 11.7677419355 80% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.25 58.1214874552 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.84 10.9000537634 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.84 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 86.8835125448 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.002688172 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.0537634409 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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