Some high school teachers (teachers of students ages 14-18) spend most of class time lecturing (speaking) while the students listen and take notes. Other high school teachers spend most of class time on discussion and projects that students are highly inv

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Some high school teachers (teachers of students ages 14-18) spend most of class time lecturing (speaking) while the students listen and take notes. Other high school teachers spend most of class time on discussion and projects that students are highly involved in and exchange their ideas. Which of these two approaches do you think is more effective for students’ learning and why?

Although many prefer classes where teachers lecturing whole the class and students just listen and takes note, I on there other hand prefer discussion classes where students involved in and share their ideas. I will address the most discernible reasons why I fell this way in the following.

To begin with, sharing idea and lecturing need some prerequisite, which means students need some preparation and spend some time to read about the topic before the class. this mean they have an idea about the class which they will attended, thus they learn more efficiently. In contrast, when students addend classes with absent of mind, teacher spend most of the class time to explain about the topic. My own experience is a compelling example of this. When I was university student, almost all my classes my professors lectured and students took note from what they said. I recall that at the beggining of the class all professor spend a lot of classes time to explain the base of the courses and gave students basic idea about the class. But some professor of mine used discussion method, and because of that students read about the topic before the class from many different sources such as their books or internet. The result was amazing because professor immedietly after class began stared to talk about the topic and used other students idea.

Moreover, when students exchange their idea in the classes, it is them to prevent missunderstanding. Not only that, but when pupiles involved in discussion they address their problem in discussion and they do not need asked their teacher. Which means teacher have more time to dedicate it to teaching instead of answer students questions. For instance. My high school teacher used this method and may students found their problems answer in other students oppinion.

In conclusion, it is for all the aforementioned reasons, I firmly believe high school teachers most spend their whole time on discussion and encourage students to exchange their idea because students attend class with idea about the class, and because it help to prevent missunderstanding and they address their problem more efficiontly.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, may, moreover, so, thus, for instance, in conclusion, in contrast, such as, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 15.1003584229 33% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 13.8261648746 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 43.0788530466 91% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 52.1666666667 86% => 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: 1804.0 1977.66487455 91% => OK
No of words: 354.0 407.700716846 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09604519774 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33761313653 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60412144459 2.67179642975 97% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 212.727598566 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.463276836158 0.524837075471 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 532.8 618.680645161 86% => 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: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK

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: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 70.5158448506 48.9658058833 144% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.266666667 100.406767564 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6 20.6045352989 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.53333333333 5.45110844103 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.5376344086 108% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 11.8709677419 59% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.41967323712 0.236089414692 178% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.148067959663 0.076458572812 194% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.109314179134 0.0737576698707 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.283936614123 0.150856017488 188% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0161389847207 0.0645574589148 25% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 11.7677419355 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 58.1214874552 97% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 10.9000537634 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.63 8.01818996416 95% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 86.8835125448 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
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: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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