Some students prefer classes with open discussions between the professor and students and almost no lectures. Other students prefer classes with lectures and almost no discussions. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
The teaching style of a class would influence students' way of learning. Some classes spend much time to hold discussions among instructors and students, and some prefer passing the knowledge in series of lectures. In my opinion, I believe the prior one is preferable, and there are two reasons in the following paragraphs.
To begin with, learning in a discussion can help learners learn about the diversity of an issue. Different from lectures, in a discussion, people can acquire different perspectives from others then realize the entire picture of things. For example, in the mental health courses which I took before, the teacher held discussions every week and encouraged us to share our opinions and experiences about different mental diseases. In the class, I corrected many misunderstandings and wrong impressions of mental disorder patients because some classmates have ever suffered from the disease. After listening to their stories, I realized the challenges and depression the patients and their families would meet. However, these complex situations are entirely beyond the descriptions on the textbooks. The experience demonstrates that learning by discussing and exchanging opinions with others can realize more aspects of an issue.
Secondly, communication is a critical skill for students, and discussion-based class offers the opportunities to practice raising ideas and listening to others. In my experience in a learning workshop, we would conduct several debates on some environmental problems in the world. In the process to give my own opinions, the members with opposite opinions often raised the questions and challenged my statement. To successfully persuade others to take my perspectives, I tried various methods to make my utterances more organized and logical and learn how to collect the evidence to strengthen my statements. Moreover, I also became a more open-minded person to respect different ideas then learn the new thoughts from them. Without joining this workshop, I would not have the chance to practice my communication skills.
In conclusion, I prefer the teaching style- learning in a discussion more than the class where involves lectures mostly. Because in a discussion, students can learn things in a diverse environment and cultivate their communication skill as well.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, well, for example, in conclusion, in my opinion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 15.1003584229 26% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 11.0286738351 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 43.0788530466 60% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 52.1666666667 104% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1964.0 1977.66487455 99% => OK
No of words: 357.0 407.700716846 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.50140056022 4.8611393121 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34677393335 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.13432486224 2.67179642975 117% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 212.727598566 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.565826330532 0.524837075471 108% => OK
syllable_count: 598.5 618.680645161 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 11.0 4.94265232975 223% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.1975480241 48.9658058833 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.111111111 100.406767564 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8333333333 20.6045352989 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.61111111111 5.45110844103 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 11.8709677419 51% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
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: 0.179576630678 0.236089414692 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0557275815172 0.076458572812 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0542208078325 0.0737576698707 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128540568631 0.150856017488 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0621375286899 0.0645574589148 96% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 11.7677419355 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 58.1214874552 75% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.62 10.9000537634 134% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.58 8.01818996416 119% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 86.8835125448 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => 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: 86.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.0 Out of 30
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