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.
Tutors have always been thinking about the types of assignments that they give the students. They try to design the tasks and projects in a way that students can learn a lot. Having considered this, many people think that group projects are more conducive to education. Others, on the other hand, stand on the other side of the continuum, believing that students who accomplish a project alone will learn more than those who work in a group. I, personally, concur with the latter group. I substantiate my viewpoint by two conspicuous reasons that I elaborate on which in the following paragraphs.
One exquisite reason that comes to mind is that working in a group, students divide all tasks and duties into different sections and each part will be allocated to one of them. To be more specific, when students take on responsibility for just a given part, they cannot learn about other parts of the assignment efficiently. On the other hand, if students work individually, they have to conduct all parts of the project alone which requires delving themselves into a vast variety of information and data from the books in the libraries to the online resources. A personal example can drive this notion home. While being a student at university, we were supposed to accomplish a group project about food factory designing. In this project, I had to locate the apparatus in the production salon, and I did it very well. However, at the end of the project, although I had a superficial knowledge about all parts of the project, I did not learn how to use light engineering to make a convenient place for workers.
Second, students have different personalities and traits that directly affect their contribution to the project. To put it in another word, some students are laid-back and they do not care about their score; therefore, they are usually assured that other students in the group will complete the project. In this circumstance, they do nothing and as a result, do not learn anything at all. For example, in the project mentioned in the previous paragraphs, there was this student that was too lazy and irresponsible. When other group members found that she had done nothing, being worried about the final score, they do her duties too. If she had to do all sections independently, she would have learned about the project to a great extent.
All in all, having the two mentioned reasons into account, I do believe that group projects are not helpful for students as much as individual projects. In the group projects not only do not students achieve comprehensive knowledge about the projects but also some of them do nothing.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, second, so, therefore, well, while, as to, for example, as a result, on the other hand, to a great extent
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 15.1003584229 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.0286738351 163% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 43.0788530466 107% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 52.1666666667 115% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2199.0 1977.66487455 111% => OK
No of words: 449.0 407.700716846 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89755011136 4.8611393121 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60321845022 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76126514401 2.67179642975 103% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 212.727598566 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.496659242762 0.524837075471 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 670.5 618.680645161 108% => 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: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.94265232975 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.4525661239 48.9658058833 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.714285714 100.406767564 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.380952381 20.6045352989 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.14285714286 5.45110844103 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 11.8709677419 59% => More positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.340191935364 0.236089414692 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106958732459 0.076458572812 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0475417183203 0.0737576698707 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.22917330845 0.150856017488 152% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0222298304283 0.0645574589148 34% => 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: 12.3 11.7677419355 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 58.1214874552 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.14 10.9000537634 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.01818996416 101% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 86.8835125448 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => 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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