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.

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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.

People always believe that teamwork will benefit members, but, according to my experience, I cannot support this idea. Teamwork can be an efficient ways of gaining knowledge from different people, but there would always be some free-riders and arguments, which eventually will result in something we did not expect, either breaking up in friendship or unsatisfied work.

Firstly, cooperation cannot be expected in every teamwork, and many will turn out to be unexpected result, not in a good way. Teamwork is supposed to gathering different opinions from different people and helping everybody to learn more than individual work, but this can only happen when there is a good leader, someone who does not just want to get the biggest award and truly care about the cooperation between team members. However, according to my own experience, most team leaders care about the output of the project, while they are not mature enough to control the situation when there is a fight or argument. In the end, the teamwork will either break down and be separated into two or more parts or just a few people continue working on it while others just doing nothing.

Moreover, in team project, people only care about their own part, so they learn little about other people's work. In universities, teachers fancy team projects a lot, but most students do not appreciate them. After interviewed some of my classmates, the result is unpleasant that most people complained about not knowing the whole story and the free-rider problem, especially when doing presentations. People only care about their own parts, because their scores' mostly due to their performance, and after they have done their parts, they will feel if the presentation turns out to be bad they cannot be blamed. Otherwise, when people are asked to finish a task by himself, he will make sure every aspect of that presentation is connected and he is responsible for the whole task. Thus, his learning about the assignment will be complete.

Finally, if teachers want their students to learn effectively, that is to learn as much knowledge as possible in a certain period of time, they have to tell their students to focus, and that is the last thing teamwork can do.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 149, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'way'?
Suggestion: way
...this idea. Teamwork can be an efficient ways of gaining knowledge from different peo...
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Line 7, column 124, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...much knowledge as possible in a certain period of time, they have to tell their students to fo...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'finally', 'first', 'firstly', 'however', 'if', 'moreover', 'so', 'thus', 'while']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.190476190476 0.229887763892 83% => OK
Verbs: 0.180952380952 0.158761421928 114% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0785714285714 0.0866891130778 91% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0761904761905 0.046263068375 165% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0571428571429 0.0685040099705 83% => OK
Prepositions: 0.0952380952381 0.118717715034 80% => OK
Participles: 0.0428571428571 0.0351676179071 122% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.64290242523 2.67179642975 99% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0333333333333 0.0309702414327 108% => OK
Particles: 0.00952380952381 0.00188951952338 504% => OK
Determiners: 0.0761904761905 0.0887237588012 86% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0333333333333 0.0209618222197 159% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0142857142857 0.0139019557991 103% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2225.0 2387.08602151 93% => OK
No of words: 372.0 408.028673835 91% => OK
Chars per words: 5.9811827957 5.86048508987 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.39173103935 4.48200974243 98% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.33064516129 0.338922669872 98% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.25 0.251872472559 99% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.19623655914 0.174417080927 113% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.120967741935 0.112833075102 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64290242523 2.67179642975 99% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 212.727598566 94% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.534946236559 0.524397521467 102% => OK
Word variations: 58.9104075461 59.2087087015 99% => OK
How many sentences: 13.0 20.6684587814 63% => OK
Sentence length: 28.6153846154 20.5533526081 139% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.4142014511 48.84282405 134% => OK
Chars per sentence: 171.153846154 120.699889404 142% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.6153846154 20.5533526081 139% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.769230769231 0.644075263715 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.5376344086 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.54480286738 36% => OK
Readability: 53.6153846154 45.7405998639 117% => OK
Elegance: 1.04545454545 1.45489161554 72% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.249764159007 0.300154397459 83% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.10244568356 0.103427244359 99% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0668541320001 0.0752933317313 89% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.538501865424 0.497263757937 108% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.198083045318 0.151897553556 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0980986088832 0.114077575197 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0565608067665 0.0781384742642 72% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.333580083338 0.336927656856 99% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0605148682214 0.067059652881 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.158428169729 0.210909579961 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0652969328708 0.0618886996521 106% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 11.8870967742 42% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.86379928315 155% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.91756272401 41% => OK
Positive topic words: 4.0 8.42114695341 47% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 2.4623655914 203% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.75985663082 72% => OK
Total topic words: 11.0 13.6433691756 81% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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