Some students prefer classes with frequent discussions between the professor and the students with almost no lectures. Other students prefer classes with many lectures and almost no discussions. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Different students have different preferences of learning and it is important for each one to find their own styles to maximize the learning. I personally feel that neither of the mentioned methods: classes with frequent discussions with almost no lectures or the classes with only lectures and no discussions would be beneficial for learning. I feel this way for the following reasons.
First, the classes with only discussion would not really help because it is really difficult to learn from such kinds of classes. Not all the students would be engaged in such discussions. Moreover, there is every chance that the class might deviate from the main point of the discussion. Such classes would be useful only if the students already have a good grasp of the subject. Not all students can proactively participate in the discussion in which case, it is just a waste of time attending the class for such students.
Second, on the other hand, the classes only with lectures and no discussion may be useful to some students but can seem boring to the others. This is so because such classes arouse no interest in the students. Moreover, they do not help in developing critical thinking that would help students research and learn beyond the classrooms. Consequently, such classes are doing harm in a way that they do not encourage the students to think and analyze on their own. This would have a drastic effect in the long run on the professional careers of the students where critical thinking can help boost their career manifold.
I feel that there has to be a balance of both the lecture and discussion about the topic in the class. On one hand, this style of class would arouse interest for the subject among most of the students. And on the other hand, it will also stimulate critical thinking in the students which is very useful for any student to succeed in any field. The lecture would first help students get acquainted with the topic and a discussion would help the professor imbue the topic into the minds of the students. The discussions would also help in developing soft skills that play a pivotal role in professional careers.
Thus, neither the classes only with discussion nor the classes only with lectures and no discussion are good for the students as the former can seem haphazard and digressing while the later does not help in developing critical thinking and soft skills. A mixture of both the lecture and a discussion would help students benefit the most not only in terms of grades but also help them learn life lessons.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, if, may, moreover, really, second, so, thus, while, as to, i feel, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 15.1003584229 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 9.8082437276 184% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 43.0788530466 53% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 52.1666666667 104% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 8.0752688172 12% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2123.0 1977.66487455 107% => OK
No of words: 438.0 407.700716846 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.84703196347 4.8611393121 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57476223824 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56446767252 2.67179642975 96% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 212.727598566 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.399543378995 0.524837075471 76% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 625.5 618.680645161 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.51792114695 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.7078954782 48.9658058833 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.15 100.406767564 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9 20.6045352989 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.8 5.45110844103 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.407934711939 0.236089414692 173% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.134487152131 0.076458572812 176% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.105130407946 0.0737576698707 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.266187585594 0.150856017488 176% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0589610625221 0.0645574589148 91% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 11.7677419355 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 58.1214874552 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.85 10.9000537634 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.13 8.01818996416 89% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 86.8835125448 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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