Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Teaching is harder than it was in the past.
With the explosive development of science and technology, so much is new and complex. When it comes to the topic whether teaching is harder than it was in the past, there are a host of individuals from different fields holding different opinions. Quite a few, if not a majority, believe that it is true that teaching is much easier today due to the new technology, while in contrast, I disagree with it, and it is my central argument that teaching is indeed harder than it was in the past.
The first reason for my argument is that students have been more informed, which makes teaching more difficult. This is because the advancement of the new media and technology has made young students more exposed to different kinds of knowledge. For instance, my Chinese teacher at senior high school, Ms. Wang, has complained that students are so smart that she feels stressed every day. She notes that she now needs to read five reference books for each session, refer to more question banks, and prepare her lectures for three more hours on average every week than 10 years ago. She also has to rehearse at least three times and have more teaching meetings with colleagues in case that she could not answer her students’ difficult questions and therefore lost face. However, students in the past did not have other information sources to refer to. Thus, the pressure students put on teachers today indicates that it is harder to teach than it was in the past.
Moreover, the modern culture in the society which encourages students to challenge rather than respect the authority makes it harder to teach as well. Living in an era that demands distinctive personalities and originality, students are allowed to express themselves freely while teachers will not win support if they punish students. Take the case of class communication between students and teachers for example. Nowadays, they can speak out their ideas loudly whenever they want, sometimes even without raising their hands. Every time students feel confused, they are just allowed to jump in and interrupt their teachers. They can have really heated debates with teachers. However, in the past, students were asked to obey rather strict classroom rules, such as no speaking or even no movement when listening to the lectures. Apparently, it is so much harder for teachers to finish their teaching plans when they have to spend more time dealing with the challenges from students.
Needless to say, there do exist some factors that can contribute to the argument from the opposite that teaching becomes easier today, because nowadays teachers really have various ways to make them understood and communicate better with students. For example, they can give PowerPoint representations in class, and copy them for students in case they miss any key points, which was rather incredible even 10 years ago. However, that is only part of the story, because the same technology has also made students more independent thinkers. So after contemplating all the discussions presented above can we maintain that teaching is harder than it was yesterday.
In conclusion, after weighing all the related factors, I am confident to maintain that teaching today has become more difficult than it was in the past.
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...ade students more independent thinkers. So after contemplating all the discussions prese...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, apparently, but, first, however, if, moreover, really, so, therefore, thus, well, while, as to, at least, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in contrast, such as, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 15.1003584229 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 13.8261648746 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.0286738351 190% => OK
Pronoun: 56.0 43.0788530466 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 67.0 52.1666666667 128% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.0752688172 149% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2738.0 1977.66487455 138% => OK
No of words: 541.0 407.700716846 133% => OK
Chars per words: 5.06099815157 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82280071112 4.48103885553 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62113205117 2.67179642975 98% => OK
Unique words: 272.0 212.727598566 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.502772643253 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 825.3 618.680645161 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.6852085074 48.9658058833 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.043478261 100.406767564 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5217391304 20.6045352989 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.08695652174 5.45110844103 148% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 11.8709677419 51% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.85842293907 233% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.230312688416 0.236089414692 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.076152481915 0.076458572812 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.085789929198 0.0737576698707 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.161699023373 0.150856017488 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0784815279906 0.0645574589148 122% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 11.7677419355 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 58.1214874552 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 10.9000537634 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.01818996416 104% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 86.8835125448 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.002688172 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.247311828 137% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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