Nowadays many high schools and universities require students to work on projects in groups and all members of the group receive the same grade mark on the project Do you agree or disagree that giving every member of a group the same grade is a good way to

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Nowadays many high schools and universities require students to work on projects in groups, and all members of the group receive the same grade (mark) on the project. Do you agree or disagree that giving every member of a group the same grade is a good way to evaluate students?
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer Be sure to use your own words Do not use memorized examples.

 With the prevailing of education opportunities compared to the past, students nowadays appreciate abundant chances of developing balanced skills by working on various genres of assignments ranging from speeches to group projects. When it comes to whether giving all the members of a group project with the same grade is practical for students’ sufficient education, individuals’ opinions differ from person to person. While some might consider that it is better to give same marks for members of a group to evaluate the work completed as a whole, I, on the contrary, contend in the ultimate analysis that it is more effective for students to learn thoroughly from the group work if their individual works were also evaluated in details.

To commence with, one of the most compelling reasons in advocacy of the thesis is that it would keep the students in a group project highly motivated when their individual works were rated. In a group project, every students are taking some part of the assignment. Even though this leads to some students to have less responsibilities to complete the task, it is also unable to prevent a part of students to become lazy and do not perform well. For instance, there is a famous scientific research that about twenty presents of a group of forager ants would never actually go find food since other eighty-percent ants are working diligently enough. Then, researchers only collected these hardworking ants and watched them. As a result, in a group of diligent ants, there were still twenty percent of ants who had decided to take a rest and put works to others. This means that in a group, ther will always have this situations of someone working hard and others do not. Therefore, when their individual works were supervised by the system of rating each person’s performances, they might become more aware of the importance of working hard to complete the task.

What is more, marking members of a group individually would eventually cultivate students’ skills by making them recognize the particular types of skills they lack. When students complete tasks with others, they tend to do what they are most good at to perform efficiently in such a big project. Doing so would eventually cause them to be never aware of the skills they are really lacking of. For instance, when my sister was in a college, she had a debate about protecting the environment. The professor announced students that on this debate everyone should include opinions about what others had said in their speeches. She had never tried to mention others, but this time she was finally aware that she should practice paying attention more on others’ opinions. If she had not have this chance to mention what other members in a group had said, she would never realize this problem she had owned.

Indeed, it is indisputable that one of the most unique feature of a group project is to improve teamwork and communication skills. However, dividing a big, difficult projects into different part of works and deciding who would take responsibilities for each would actually illuminate them with the awareness of having fluent communications with others. Thus, it is not always necessary to have their works evaluated as a whole to have better teamwork or communication.

In conclusion, although it is undeniable that marking students with the same grade allows them to cooperate each other and complete the assignment as a whole, the benefits grading them individually has far outweighs the drawbacks.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, however, if, really, so, still, then, therefore, thus, well, while, for instance, in conclusion, as a result, on the contrary, what is more

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 15.1003584229 146% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 9.8082437276 122% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 13.8261648746 65% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.0286738351 145% => OK
Pronoun: 49.0 43.0788530466 114% => OK
Preposition: 86.0 52.1666666667 165% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.0752688172 173% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2948.0 1977.66487455 149% => OK
No of words: 582.0 407.700716846 143% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.06529209622 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.91168771031 4.48103885553 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80381205734 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 276.0 212.727598566 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.474226804124 0.524837075471 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 901.8 618.680645161 146% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 3.51792114695 256% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 20.1344086022 129% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 58.6364341085 48.9658058833 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.0 100.406767564 133% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.4545454545 20.6045352989 128% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.68181818182 5.45110844103 141% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.5376344086 126% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.288030367655 0.236089414692 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0912383895538 0.076458572812 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0788638731437 0.0737576698707 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.168920849286 0.150856017488 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0869004569473 0.0645574589148 135% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 11.7677419355 133% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 58.1214874552 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.1575268817 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 10.9000537634 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.75 8.01818996416 109% => OK
difficult_words: 141.0 86.8835125448 162% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 10.002688172 190% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.0537634409 123% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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