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 | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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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.

Nowadays, learning styles are various, and it is critically important that we look for a setting that matches our academic preference. Whereas some people incline to a discussion-based class, others disagree. In my opinion, I undoubtedly reckon that a lecture-based approach is more beneficial. I feel that way for two reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.

First, the lecture guarantees that students acquire all knowledge that they are supposed to have. To illustrate, when I was a freshman, I got enrolled in a discussion class in history, which was about the ancient Egyptian civilization. The style was 100% discussion, but what happened that only a few students directed the whole class according to their questions. The instructor was never able to cover the syllabus categories because almost every time, only two students got engaged with the professor in a perpetual argument. Frankly, I did not get even the bare minimum information out of that topic, which made me fail the course. After I had taken the same material in my sophomore in the lecture style, I achieved plenty of essential points, and I got a high score as well. As you can see, a lecture-learning does benefit students a lot more than a discussion class.

Secondly, students can still raise their hands and ask questions in lecture-style, in particular, shy ones, without disruption for others. For example, a few years ago, in university, I took an introductory course in chemistry in the lecture-style. Although I was reluctant to raise my hands during the lecture and ask questions because of my shyness back then, however, since it was a lecture learning, the professor asked students to ask whatever they wanted at the end of the lecture. That way gave me a golden opportunity not to feel self-conscious because, after all, everybody was asking, and I could blend in the crowd. Furthermore, that way saved time for students who understood the entire lecture, and they can gather their belongings and quietly leave. The professor gave the option for students who misunderstood to stay and ask or comment on the topic. So, students who understood would save time by not getting distracted during the lecture. This experience taught me that a lecture-based setting is advantageous for shy students and does save time for other students.

In a nutshell, it is more appropriate for students to attend lectures than discussion setting classes. Not only because students get more knowledgeable, but also it gives a chance to the participation of shy students to ask without distraction for other students.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, frankly, furthermore, however, look, second, secondly, so, still, then, well, whereas, after all, for example, i feel, in particular, in my opinion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 15.1003584229 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.0286738351 163% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 43.0788530466 102% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 52.1666666667 82% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2181.0 1977.66487455 110% => OK
No of words: 427.0 407.700716846 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10772833724 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54576487731 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07273340372 2.67179642975 115% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 212.727598566 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.536299765808 0.524837075471 102% => OK
syllable_count: 675.9 618.680645161 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 7.0 3.08781362007 227% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.86738351254 321% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.94265232975 182% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.4542393231 48.9658058833 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.857142857 100.406767564 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3333333333 20.6045352989 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.85714285714 5.45110844103 144% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.257746059144 0.236089414692 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0835615614725 0.076458572812 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0572280677353 0.0737576698707 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.165480101107 0.150856017488 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0551363486684 0.0645574589148 85% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 11.7677419355 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 10.9000537634 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.7 8.01818996416 109% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 86.8835125448 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => 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: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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