do you agree or disagree with the following statement? When teachers assign projects on which students must work together, the students learn much more effectively than when they are asked to work alone on projects. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
In recent times, there has been a widespread debate on whether students learn much when they work in groups or not. While some people believe that working alone is more beneficial for students, I hold the opposite view. I think working in groups is more beneficial than working alone for students.
To begin with, students will learn how to communicate with each other when they work in groups. Each one of them has different personality and mentality, so they will spend enough time to know each other well. After that, they will know each one personality, so they use the proper way to communicate and convince each other. For example, when Steve Jobs established his Apple company, he worked with all his employees in groups. As a result, all employees knew each other well and they improved their way of communication among them. On the other hand, if students worked alone, they would be more isolated from people and would not improve their communication skills.
In addition to improve communication skills, working in groups allows students to learn how to accept different ideas and debates. They will negotiate with each other to figure out best options. For instance, when Bill Gates worked in group projects at his elementary schools, he learned how to insist in his idea, but he had learned how to accept people’s ideas. Later on, he was able to negotiate and convince with customers about his products. Furthermore, he was able to accept any additional thoughts or critique in order to improve his products. Thus, his Microsoft company achieves a great success in world market. Conversely, when people work alone, they will be more aggressive toward their claims and they will not learn how to accept other’s thoughts.
In conclusion, I strongly believe that working in groups is very important for students. This is not only because they will learn many skills from each other, but also they will learn how to accept people’s ideas and thoughts.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, furthermore, if, so, thus, well, while, for example, for instance, i think, in addition, in conclusion, as a result, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 15.1003584229 60% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 9.8082437276 102% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 36.0 43.0788530466 84% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 52.1666666667 88% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1651.0 1977.66487455 83% => OK
No of words: 330.0 407.700716846 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.00303030303 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.26214759535 4.48103885553 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60585094294 2.67179642975 98% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 212.727598566 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.524837075471 95% => OK
syllable_count: 491.4 618.680645161 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.51792114695 199% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 27.7491519167 48.9658058833 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 91.7222222222 100.406767564 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.3333333333 20.6045352989 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.55555555556 5.45110844103 175% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.240970165891 0.236089414692 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0961559009503 0.076458572812 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0772473369282 0.0737576698707 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169951210485 0.150856017488 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0653145777199 0.0645574589148 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 11.7677419355 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 58.1214874552 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.72 10.9000537634 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.4 8.01818996416 92% => OK
difficult_words: 60.0 86.8835125448 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
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: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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