TPO-33 - Independent Writing Task
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
When teachers assign projects on which students must work together, the students learn much more effectively than when they are asked to work alone on projects.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Nowadays, students have myriad of assignments to deal with, and there is a fervor debate whether the assignments should be done alone or in groups. Which method will provide students with optimal profits? To take a project together, in my opinion, is the more effective way for students because during the process, they can work at their best parts and get inspired from others’ ideas.
To begin with, no one can deny the fact that every individual has his own limitations and advantages in terms of skills and talents, and cooperation makes sure that everyone can make the most contribution to the work. When working together, each member in a team can be responsible for the part they are best at, making their work more effective. However, if a student handles a project by himself, he will spend a lot of time learning something he does not good at, which is a waste of time. For example, my e-commerce professor once asked us to do a team project to analyze one type of business administration methods in two weeks. It was considerable amount of work but thanks to our well-organized teamwork, we finished it on time with high quality. We divided the whole project into a few tasks, so that everyone could find his own field – be it collecting materials, writing the report or preparing the presentation.
Moreover, team working allows students to exchange their thoughts and learn from others’ different perspectives. Human beings are subjective and sometimes we can be trapped in our stereotypes. Thus, different points of view are necessary in order to raise new questions, new possibilities, and to regard old problems from a new angle. To solve a convoluted problem, what matters most is group members gathering together to talk about their thoughts on the work freely, during which many innovative solutions are likely to occur. For instance, two classmates and I did a project on developing an Internet camera managing system last year. At first, I insisted that we should design a website to present those features since I had such experience, but later we were stuck at how to transfer the video data. One member suggested us to build an application instead, and it turned out to work perfectly. To be frank, if it was not his advice, we might probably fail this assignment and receive a bad grade in the course.
In the final analysis, although working individually may save students some time on reaching an agreement so they can start doing research quick, team working actually boosts their working efficiency in a long term. Because of the division of work according to each member’s strengths as well as the exchange of distinctive opinions, doing projects in groups enable students to learn much more beyond themselves.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, however, if, may, moreover, so, thus, well, for example, for instance, as well as, in my opinion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 41.0 43.0788530466 95% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 52.1666666667 130% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2309.0 1977.66487455 117% => OK
No of words: 464.0 407.700716846 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97629310345 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64119157421 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84407562554 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Unique words: 274.0 212.727598566 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.590517241379 0.524837075471 113% => OK
syllable_count: 707.4 618.680645161 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.94265232975 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.1344086022 119% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.2219283543 48.9658058833 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.526315789 100.406767564 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4210526316 20.6045352989 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 5.45110844103 128% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => 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: 0.266974305839 0.236089414692 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0791859926657 0.076458572812 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0590363743213 0.0737576698707 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.180996033067 0.150856017488 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0582090477449 0.0645574589148 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 11.7677419355 121% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 58.1214874552 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.1575268817 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.9 10.9000537634 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.77 8.01818996416 109% => OK
difficult_words: 116.0 86.8835125448 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.002688172 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.0537634409 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => 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: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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