Attending classes is the most intellectual phase that every student goes through in their education. These sessions help every student to understand the existing concepts, discourse on critical viewpoints, exchange different perspectives with other students and also with the professor. I personally think that classes with standard lectures are more useful in imparting the necessary knowledge than converting these to open discussions. I have two reasons for asserting this which I will elaborate on in the following paragraphs.
First of all, the most important problem is completing the course on time. Encouraging many such open discussions to take a lot of time which might be otherwise used for teaching important topics of the course. Students might be discursive at times while speaking about critical concepts. These digressions really consume a lot of valuable time. Similarly, lecturers might also get deviated away from the topic. In fact, in order to exchange ideas verbally in the session students had to learn the concepts prior to the session. Due to this reason and as we all know that some students might learn and some might not. These students who had not learned, at least overview of the concept which is going to be discussed, might end up uninvolved in the debate. This behavior results in an incomplete understanding of the concept. Another dire consequence is that the professor might not notice such students until the exams. My personal example is a compelling example of this. During the final semester of my college, a lecturer had tried to employ an open discussion class for a week. During the first few days, everything was looking fine until students got bored with lengthy discussions. As a result, the course curriculum was straying off until it was reverted back to normal lecture type class.
Secondly, it is evident that a lot of time is required to complete the course than the normal standard. Lecturers need to increase the duration of each class or increase the number of classes altogether. Unfortunately this does not solve the problem and in turn, creates another problem for students as well as lecturers. Students might have to spend more time attending such classes, compromising on the otherwise available time which might take their schedule on a roller coaster ride. On the other hand, professors have to get adjusted on their time which might have been used for research. For instance, a course which usually takes 25 class hours could take an extra of 10-15 class hours making it 40 class hours in total. This onerous burden is stowed on students making them attend for 10 additional hours only to understand the same concept. In the same way, every teacher has to spend extra time in order to complete the course before the stipulated deadline.
In conclusion, although there are some advantages like inculcating broader perspective in every student and having more viewpoints on a concept or a thesis, having an open discussion instead of conventional lectures might actually take up significant time from the lives of both students and professors.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, first, if, look, really, second, secondly, similarly, so, well, while, as to, at least, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, speaking about, as a result, as well as, first of all, in the same way, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 9.8082437276 143% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 13.8261648746 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 43.0788530466 65% => OK
Preposition: 74.0 52.1666666667 142% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2607.0 1977.66487455 132% => OK
No of words: 508.0 407.700716846 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13188976378 4.8611393121 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74751043592 4.48103885553 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73683149015 2.67179642975 102% => OK
Unique words: 256.0 212.727598566 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.503937007874 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 800.1 618.680645161 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => 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: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.6003584229 131% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.3788490102 48.9658058833 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.5555555556 100.406767564 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8148148148 20.6045352989 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.55555555556 5.45110844103 157% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.88709677419 225% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.268457462018 0.236089414692 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0747867284815 0.076458572812 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0510199696424 0.0737576698707 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.190139613619 0.150856017488 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0544411127877 0.0645574589148 84% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 11.7677419355 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 58.1214874552 92% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 10.9000537634 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.01818996416 105% => OK
difficult_words: 124.0 86.8835125448 143% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => 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: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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