Is it more important to be able to work with a group of people on a team or to work
independently? Use reasons and specific examples to support your answer.
Work is an important part of our lives. No matter where we are or what we do, we cannot
escape our responsibilities in school or at work. Some people believe that it is more important
to be able to work in a group while others disagree. In my view, though both skills are
important, the most successful people know how to work independently for two very important
reasons.
First, you don’t always have a group to depend on. The benefits of being able to work in a
group are obvious, but most of the things we do in life require us to do it alone. Without this
ability, it’s very hard to do things well. For example, when I was in university, I took a physics
class. The professor who taught the class was good, but he wasn’t effective. It was hard to
follow his lectures. Many students in the class, including me, formed study groups. We worked
together in the library as a group. It was great. We learned a lot. However, I would study by
myself afterwards too. It was important because I needed to really master it for the test. After
the course I learned, that the students who focused only on group work didn’t do as well as
those that also worked alone. When students had to take the test, they had to do it alone. They
couldn’t depend on another’s idea or help. This experience taught me that the ability to work
independently is much more important.
Second, an independent mind comes from independent work. When you work in a group, you
have to be part of the group. Sometimes, you give up some ideas or focus on what other group
members want. This takes away your sense of independence. For example, I read a book on
psychology a few weeks ago. It was an interesting book that talked about how groups influence
people. The author provided an example about a jury in a court of law. I learned that there is
a lot of pressure to agree in a jury. Most people follow others who state their opinion. She
stated that when only one person disagreed with the group, many other people would follow.
In other words, most people don’t say what they feel unless someone else does. This is a natural
result of group work: few people lead others. Consequently, most people learn to follow and
not lead. Since success often results from strong leaders and independent minds, this book
helped show me that the ability to work in a group is not as important as the ability to work
alone.
In sum, we must know how to work both in a group and by ourselves to do well in life, but the
ability to work independently is more important. Not only does it help you succeed with more
common work that you must do alone, but it also helps you develop the independent mind that
is essential for success. We should all spend at least some time working alone.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, however, if, really, second, so, well, while, at least, for example, as well as, in my view, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.0286738351 163% => OK
Pronoun: 65.0 43.0788530466 151% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 64.0 52.1666666667 123% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.0752688172 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2327.0 1977.66487455 118% => OK
No of words: 507.0 407.700716846 124% => OK
Chars per words: 4.58974358974 4.8611393121 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74517233601 4.48103885553 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53970949035 2.67179642975 95% => OK
Unique words: 242.0 212.727598566 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.477317554241 0.524837075471 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 709.2 618.680645161 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 26.0 9.59856630824 271% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 3.08781362007 227% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 37.0 20.6003584229 180% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 20.1344086022 65% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.5911261928 48.9658058833 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 62.8918918919 100.406767564 63% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.7027027027 20.6045352989 67% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.75675675676 5.45110844103 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 30.0 4.53405017921 662% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 11.8709677419 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 14.0 4.88709677419 286% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.235169094213 0.236089414692 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0595309081802 0.076458572812 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0662867366174 0.0737576698707 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0708320833209 0.150856017488 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0539800347216 0.0645574589148 84% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 7.0 11.7677419355 59% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 75.2 58.1214874552 129% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.0 10.1575268817 59% => Flesch kincaid grade is low.
coleman_liau_index: 8.75 10.9000537634 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.68 8.01818996416 83% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 86.8835125448 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.0537634409 72% => OK
text_standard: 7.0 10.247311828 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 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.