Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Student activities do as much benefit as academic study.
The trade-off between student activities and academic study has been, for years, in the limelight of the discussion on education, where people never seem to see eye to eye. In reference to such an issue, the given statement, in my opinion, should not be regarded as overall reasonable.
When it comes to extracurricula activities, some may argue that they are equally beneficial to students compared with the schoolwork, thus student activities deserve the same attention. Admittedly, various activities are conducive to students’ life in plenty of aspects. Engaging in student affairs could cultivate the promise in leadership; chatting freely in the parties get those who lack confidence out of their shell; joining in student associations brings us likeminded friends and expand our horizon. Each specific types of student activities has its unique function, which is indispensable for a colorful campus life, let alone the fact that all of those choices take our mind off the pressured academic affairs and help us to unwind. In light of the forgoing preferable benefits the student activities might bring, they are, indeed, essential for every student.
However, the revenue extracurricula activities could generate does not imply that it does as much as benefit as schoolwork. Actually, student activities cannot even come close to academic study in terms of their significance.
Firstly, it is academic study, rather than the colorful activities that guarantees the students’ job prospects and future development. Strict training in diverse courses endow us with basic abilities we need to further our career, e.g., mathematics giving us logical thinking, creative writing enhancing our rhetoric skills, history teaching us to learn from the past, which are all required in all walks of life. Even for the students who merely hit the books before the finals without comprehensive understanding of the knowledge, a good academic record will convince their manager of their high intelligence when submitting their resumes. Let us assume two graduates, one of them getting straight A in all the courses but participating in few activities while the other being active in many types of activities, some of which you don’t even know the contents of, whereas the GPA being quite poor. Which one would you hire if you were the manager? Certainly the former is the desirable candidate.
Secondly, the overemphasis on student activities could cause a huge amount of serious problems, while academic study never generate destructive effects even though sometimes students might be stressed out for schoolwork. Take the popular parties as an example. Naturally, hanging out with other students in the party offers an opportunity to make friends. However, chances are, bad habits could rub off on boys and girls in their formative years. Undesirable things, i.e., drug addiction, unwanted sex and even underage pregnancy, do breed in those parties, not kidding. Student activities are too difficult to regulate that the dark side of the society could sneak up on students without any signal. In contrast, nobody has ever heard that some boy became a juvenile delinquent due to his academic affairs. Given the negative effects the student activities might bring, could anyone assert that they are equally beneficial to students?
To sum up, academic study is much more conducive to students than the various activities for the reason mentioned above. Fortunately, thanks to some insightful educators, academic study is the highest priority of most educational institutions, rather than the activities.
Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'but', 'e.g.', 'first', 'firstly', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'thus', 'whereas', 'while', 'in contrast', 'in my opinion', 'to sum up']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.245341614907 0.229887763892 107% => OK
Verbs: 0.145962732919 0.158761421928 92% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0916149068323 0.0866891130778 106% => OK
Adverbs: 0.055900621118 0.046263068375 121% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0465838509317 0.0685040099705 68% => OK
Prepositions: 0.116459627329 0.118717715034 98% => OK
Participles: 0.0372670807453 0.0351676179071 106% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.88182461277 2.67179642975 108% => OK
Infinitives: 0.026397515528 0.0309702414327 85% => OK
Particles: 0.00776397515528 0.00188951952338 411% => OK
Determiners: 0.0900621118012 0.0887237588012 102% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0217391304348 0.0209618222197 104% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0139751552795 0.0139019557991 101% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3618.0 2387.08602151 152% => OK
No of words: 563.0 408.028673835 138% => OK
Chars per words: 6.42628774423 5.86048508987 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87110059796 4.48200974243 109% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.415630550622 0.338922669872 123% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.346358792185 0.251872472559 138% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.252220248668 0.174417080927 145% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.154529307282 0.112833075102 137% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88182461277 2.67179642975 108% => OK
Unique words: 317.0 212.727598566 149% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.563055062167 0.524397521467 107% => OK
Word variations: 72.9536579635 59.2087087015 123% => OK
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6684587814 121% => OK
Sentence length: 22.52 20.5533526081 110% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.6879166971 48.84282405 134% => OK
Chars per sentence: 144.72 120.699889404 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.52 20.5533526081 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.68 0.644075263715 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.5376344086 132% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.54480286738 0% => OK
Readability: 57.1558792185 45.7405998639 125% => OK
Elegance: 1.60625 1.45489161554 110% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.264145692717 0.300154397459 88% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0727024105923 0.103427244359 70% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0593111993958 0.0752933317313 79% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.51637055185 0.497263757937 104% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.162603611265 0.151897553556 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0991613178476 0.114077575197 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0520423831342 0.0781384742642 67% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.304052112429 0.336927656856 90% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0671137579808 0.067059652881 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.184342441276 0.210909579961 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0511369537887 0.0618886996521 83% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8870967742 109% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.86379928315 155% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.91756272401 122% => OK
Positive topic words: 10.0 8.42114695341 119% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 2.4623655914 162% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.75985663082 145% => OK
Total topic words: 18.0 13.6433691756 132% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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