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Some people prefer interactive classes others prefer to only listen to the teacher speak Which do you prefer

Whereas some people like studying in an interactive environment, others prefer not having to participate in a class. Personally, I prefer classes that ask students to interact with one another and their teacher. I feel this way for two reasons which I will examine in this essay.
First of all, interactive classes help students gain a better understanding of the topic. Obviously, if students do not interact with others, they only adapt one way of thinking. In contrast, if they discuss the topic in a group, they are necessarily confronted with different ideas. Consequently, they must critically think about these ideas which expands their minds. As a result, they learn much more than those students who only know their point of view. For example, at university I took some courses which required a lot of group work and others where I only listened to what the teacher said. At the end of my studies, I realized that I had acquired a much broader and deeper knowledge in those courses where I had interacted with others than in those where I had merely listened to the teacher speak. Furthermore, I managed to remember the topics of the interactive classes for quite some time, while I quickly forgot those of the non-interactive classes. Hence, interacting with others did not only help me understand the subject better, but also enabled me to remember the relevant information for a longer period of time.
Second, interacting with others allows students to improve their communication skills. Evidently, if they have to discuss a specific topic with others, they must present their ideas, explain them, and defend them against counter arguments. Thus, students learn how to communicate their ideas appropriately. It is clear that this skill can prove very useful in the future. This is best demonstrated by my personal experience. I once enrolled in a neuroscience course where discussions and presentations constituted a major part of the course. At the beginning I struggled with this format because I was not used to speaking in public. In fact, defending my arguments in front of a crowd was a huge challenge for me. Surprisingly, after some time, I found it quite natural to speak in public and I even tried to seize every opportunity to get more practice. Nowadays I do not have any problems at all to communicate my ideas. I am sure that if this neuroscience course had not been interactive, I would not have learned how to speak in public.
In conclusion, I am of the opinion that those classes which require interaction are better than non interactive classes. This is because such classes allow students to gain a broad, in-depth, and long lasting knowledge of the subject and because they provide a great opportunity to improve their communication skills.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 1118, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, furthermore, hence, if, second, so, thus, whereas, while, for example, i feel, in conclusion, in contrast, in fact, as a result, first of all

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 15.1003584229 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 9.8082437276 51% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 13.8261648746 65% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.0286738351 127% => OK
Pronoun: 64.0 43.0788530466 149% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 61.0 52.1666666667 117% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2318.0 1977.66487455 117% => OK
No of words: 465.0 407.700716846 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98494623656 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64369019777 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9058259961 2.67179642975 109% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 212.727598566 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505376344086 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 729.9 618.680645161 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 17.0 9.59856630824 177% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6003584229 121% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.6752209582 48.9658058833 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.72 100.406767564 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6 20.6045352989 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.92 5.45110844103 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88709677419 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.260822621568 0.236089414692 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0693736065376 0.076458572812 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.083549913478 0.0737576698707 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.176591010166 0.150856017488 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.11575954829 0.0645574589148 179% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.3 11.7677419355 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 58.1214874552 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 10.9000537634 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.79 8.01818996416 97% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 86.8835125448 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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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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