Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
When classmates or colleagues communicate about a project in person instead of by e-mail, they will produce better work for the project.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
It goes without saying that in today’s progressive and intricate world in which we live, projects have become increasingly multifarious, calling for the engagement of people possessing different fields of expertise. In this vein, a project can only be realized once a team consisting of collaborative, cooperative participants contribute to that, which makes it indispensable for team members to be constantly in touch, either by means of in-person rendezvous or using technological mediums like an e-mail correspondence. While some people might believe that these meetings are better held in a traditional, face-to-face manner, some others stand at the other side of the continuum, citing that e-mails would be sufficient for exchange of ideas. I, however, subscribe to the former group in that there are certain qualities of personal meetings that cannot be found in electronic messages. I will briefly explain the reasons for my stance in what follows.
To begin with, there are intricacies and nuances in one’s gesture that cannot be conveyed via a message. There are not just words being exchanged in a personal meeting, but there are intonations, gesticulations and facial expressions which could be just as important. Moreover, while e-mails tend to be brief and terse, there is no shortage of conversation when it comes to in-person meetings as people are not limited to confine their messages into limitations of a written text. I happen to have an experience which just squares with my claim. I remember I studied my bachelor’s degree at the University of Vienna which is located in Austria’s capital. Being a student of sociology, the department always insisted on prioritizing teamwork and socializing skills over individuality, because of which all assigned tasks were required to be done in constant collaboration with other members of the determined group. I remember once we were to prepare a presentation for an important course. A member of our group, had an emergency and went to Egypt for family matters and he being responsible for a major part of our work, we had to resort to email exchange. Even though we did correspond many times, when the presentation day was due, we realized that there has been a misunderstanding about my groupmate part, which resulted in us getting a mediocre score for that course. Had we not relied on e-mails, we could have precluded from the misunderstanding; which hurt our scores.
Secondly, having a dialogue with group members in person means getting immediate responses, saving time and leaving no room for ambiguity. Contrariwise, sending an email usually requires waiting a great deal of time for an answer, which not only wastes time which is extremely precious for on-time delivery of a project, but also leaves room for interpretation and ambiguity, should one receive a vague answer. An experience of mine could be a compelling one in this case. I remember when I worked in a consultant firm two years ago, I was part of a project in along with other members of a team, led by a senior project manager. In the last day of the deadline, while running a review, I ran into a problem with my part of the project which was beyond my expertise. Consequently, I tried to reach the project manager who only contacted us via e-mail. However, he did not answer my message for half a day and I had to rely on my speculation to solve the problem, resulting in a major flaw in my part which ruined the whole project. Had we had regular face-to-face meetings with the project manager, I would not end up delivering a half-baked work, and the whole project would have been salvaged.
In line with the points mentioned and corroborating experiences of mine, I believe that an e-mail cannot be as effective as an in-person meeting when it comes to team works and projects as it fails to convey prolonged, intricate conversations and it also leaves room for ambiguity because of its succinct and slow-paced nature.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 1089, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'is'.
Suggestion: is
...went to Egypt for family matters and he being responsible for a major part of our wor...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, briefly, but, consequently, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, while, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 15.1003584229 192% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 27.0 11.0286738351 245% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 60.0 43.0788530466 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 92.0 52.1666666667 176% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.0752688172 136% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3323.0 1977.66487455 168% => OK
No of words: 661.0 407.700716846 162% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02723146747 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.07049507093 4.48103885553 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07982114052 2.67179642975 115% => OK
Unique words: 335.0 212.727598566 157% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.506807866868 0.524837075471 97% => OK
syllable_count: 1052.1 618.680645161 170% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 9.59856630824 156% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6003584229 117% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 20.1344086022 134% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 74.8355140736 48.9658058833 153% => OK
Chars per sentence: 138.458333333 100.406767564 138% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.5416666667 20.6045352989 134% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.125 5.45110844103 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.85842293907 207% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.191099119162 0.236089414692 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0592944545739 0.076458572812 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0418272924941 0.0737576698707 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133042162158 0.150856017488 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.043408161303 0.0645574589148 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 11.7677419355 136% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 58.1214874552 76% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 10.1575268817 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 10.9000537634 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.99 8.01818996416 112% => OK
difficult_words: 168.0 86.8835125448 193% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 20.5 10.002688172 205% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.0537634409 127% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
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: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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