Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Would you prefer to take courses taught by professors with whom you have already had other classes during your past years of study, or would you prefer to take courses with professors whose classes you have never taken before? Why? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Few would deny that learning is a lifelong and colorful process so that individuals have their own preferences to decide which way they can absorb more knowledge and exert themselves into studying more efficiently. While some may prefer having courses with totally unfamiliar professors for the feeling of freshness, I would like to vote for the professors with whom I have already had other courses for several primary reasons.
In the first place, familiar professors possess the overwhelming advantage of providing me with more accurate and personalized suggestions. A professor with whom I have already been familiar in other courses naturally saves the progress of getting to know me and my learning habits. When I encounter some troubles in the process of finishing a course project, the professor is no doubt capable of giving me tips that are more suitable for my own circumstance. Taking my personal experience as an instance, the professor of my Advanced Math class also holds my Optimization course. Caught by a problem for a few days, I went to him for some suggestions to solve the puzzle and he told me that it is because I had a shortcoming of failing to understand the meaning of the problem rather than that my calculation ability is sufficient that I could not figure out the question.
In the second place, professors with whom students have already taken courses can release the stress of students taking part in another course. When students are faced with the situation of being required to participate in a difficult course such as astrophysics, it is common that they may feel so stressed out that they would be reluctant to attend courses or even fail to get into the classroom. However, given a familiar professor who is known to be patient or easygoing, the stress will be released so that it has more positive effects on the students.
Last but not least, nothing can be more pleasant to be praised by a professor from different aspects. A student can be strongly ignited and encouraged by a professor who can appreciate his or her excellence from different courses. My friend XiaoLing provides a vivid example of this statement. It is when she was commended by our Chinese Literature and Chinese Poetry professor for her talent in writing and her brilliance in capturing the beauty of poems that she decided to chase her dream in literature and she finally accomplished a novel of 700000 words.
Taking all these mentioned advantages into account, there is no doubt that I would prefer a familiar professor for more personalized suggestions, less stress or reluctance in courses, and more motivation to behave myself best, which offers positive effects in the long run of learning.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
...r courses for several primary reasons. In the first place, familiar professors ...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ve effects in the long run of learning.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, so, while, no doubt, such as, in the first place, in the second place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.0286738351 190% => OK
Pronoun: 53.0 43.0788530466 123% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 57.0 52.1666666667 109% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.0752688172 149% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2270.0 1977.66487455 115% => OK
No of words: 455.0 407.700716846 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98901098901 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61852021839 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84849579068 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 234.0 212.727598566 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514285714286 0.524837075471 98% => OK
syllable_count: 707.4 618.680645161 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.6003584229 73% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 30.0 20.1344086022 149% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 68.3001870829 48.9658058833 139% => OK
Chars per sentence: 151.333333333 100.406767564 151% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.3333333333 20.6045352989 147% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.13333333333 5.45110844103 149% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.88709677419 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.227694513543 0.236089414692 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0835197007512 0.076458572812 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0737687083983 0.0737576698707 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133106405114 0.150856017488 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0697020940399 0.0645574589148 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.2 11.7677419355 146% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.03 58.1214874552 71% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 10.1575268817 148% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 10.9000537634 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.98 8.01818996416 112% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 86.8835125448 128% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.002688172 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 10.0537634409 139% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.247311828 146% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...r courses for several primary reasons. In the first place, familiar professors ...
^^^
Line 9, column 287, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ve effects in the long run of learning.
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, so, while, no doubt, such as, in the first place, in the second place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.0286738351 190% => OK
Pronoun: 53.0 43.0788530466 123% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 57.0 52.1666666667 109% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.0752688172 149% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2270.0 1977.66487455 115% => OK
No of words: 455.0 407.700716846 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98901098901 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61852021839 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84849579068 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 234.0 212.727598566 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.514285714286 0.524837075471 98% => OK
syllable_count: 707.4 618.680645161 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.6003584229 73% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 30.0 20.1344086022 149% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 68.3001870829 48.9658058833 139% => OK
Chars per sentence: 151.333333333 100.406767564 151% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.3333333333 20.6045352989 147% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.13333333333 5.45110844103 149% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.88709677419 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.227694513543 0.236089414692 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0835197007512 0.076458572812 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0737687083983 0.0737576698707 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133106405114 0.150856017488 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0697020940399 0.0645574589148 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.2 11.7677419355 146% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.03 58.1214874552 71% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 10.1575268817 148% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 10.9000537634 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.98 8.01818996416 112% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 86.8835125448 128% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.002688172 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 10.0537634409 139% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.247311828 146% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.