Some students prefer to study alone. Others prefer to study with a group of students. Which do you
prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer
Everyone has their own preferred study methods, and all of them have their benefits. I am of the
opinion that it is better to study alone than to study as part of a group. I feel this way for two main
reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.
To begin with, studying alone allows me to focus on specific areas of a subject that I am struggling
with, rather than doing a broad overview of the class. I always attend my classes and communicate
regularly with my professors and teachers, so I am constantly aware of which topics I need to focus on
when I study. When I study in a group, everyone in the group has different needs, and the study session is
required to touch on all of them. As a freshman four years ago, I was not aware of this and found myself
wasting my time studying in a group for an important European history exam. I knew that I really needed
to focus on religious history, but sat uncomfortably through a group study session that progressed through
political, cultural, scientific, literary and artistic history before touching only briefly on the issue of
religion. As a result, I performed more poorly on the test than I would have if I had just studied alone.
Furthermore, I recognize that I am a very social creature, and this means that when I study in a group
I am easily distracted. I am not the only person who has this problem; many people will agree that they
too desire to socialize rather than study when in a group of friends and classmates. My example of
studying for that European history class is a good example of this. Not only did I suffer from the fact that
we only touched briefly on my problem area, but certain group members (including myself) were easily
drawn off-topic. We were quick to make jokes about the material being covered, or make tenuous and
meaningless connections between those topics and our own lives. Thankfully I have avoided this problem
since then as I have decided to always study by myself.
In conclusion, I strongly believe that studying alone is better than studying in a group. This is
because studying alone allows me to focus on the areas that I need to, and because it helps me to avoid
socializing when I should be studying.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
briefly, but, furthermore, if, really, so, then, i feel, in conclusion, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 15.1003584229 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 9.8082437276 61% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.0286738351 172% => OK
Pronoun: 66.0 43.0788530466 153% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 53.0 52.1666666667 102% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 8.0752688172 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1850.0 1977.66487455 94% => OK
No of words: 401.0 407.700716846 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.61346633416 4.8611393121 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47492842339 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56693165613 2.67179642975 96% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 212.727598566 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.496259351621 0.524837075471 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 576.9 618.680645161 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 9.59856630824 146% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.86738351254 375% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.0099862842 48.9658058833 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.823529412 100.406767564 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5882352941 20.6045352989 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.76470588235 5.45110844103 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 23.0 4.53405017921 507% => Less paragraphs wanted.
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 : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.241216658436 0.236089414692 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0910416609967 0.076458572812 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0573549286514 0.0737576698707 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0727350748331 0.150856017488 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0565705517093 0.0645574589148 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 11.7677419355 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 58.1214874552 112% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.75 10.9000537634 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.01818996416 99% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 86.8835125448 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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