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.
Could the students learn more from team projects than doing by themselves? This question has been hotly debated among people for decades. Some people hold the opinion that teamwork could help the students finish difficult projects that they could not done by themselves, therefore, learning much more than personal projects. However, it is my contention that personal projects actually make the students learn more than team projects, and the negative consequences brought by team projects outweigh their benefits. Let me elaborate.
First of all, team project usually is not finished by the team. The fact is, some students would never contribute, and there is always someone who need to do everything by himself. For example, when I was in university, my roommate always team up with me in team projects. I hate to group up with him because he never pays attention in group discussion and he never finishes anything the team lead assigns him to do. In order to finish the project, I always need to do the works that he supposes to do. Therefore, he had learned nothing from the team project. On the contrary, if this was a personal project, he would need to finish the project by himself and at least he could learn something from it.
Secondly, some students would always do the same thing in a team, therefore, they would not have the experience of other parts of the project. Take myself as an example, I am not afraid of speaking in front of the class so I always volunteer to be the speaker of the team. As a result, the only thing I have learned from team project is speech. If this was a personal project, I would have learned how to do the research and write the report besides presenting.
To conclude, it is my opinion that personal projects are better than team projects when it comes to make the students learn effectively. Only personal projects could force the students to do their work by themselves and learn every aspect of a complete project.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, besides, but, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, at least, for example, as a result, first of all, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 13.8261648746 43% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 42.0 43.0788530466 97% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 52.1666666667 82% => 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: 1630.0 1977.66487455 82% => OK
No of words: 342.0 407.700716846 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.76608187135 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30037696126 4.48103885553 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54965395083 2.67179642975 95% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 212.727598566 74% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.461988304094 0.524837075471 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 486.9 618.680645161 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.8824252772 48.9658058833 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.5555555556 100.406767564 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 20.6045352989 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.88888888889 5.45110844103 145% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 11.8709677419 17% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 14.0 4.88709677419 286% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.255250484197 0.236089414692 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0959660774315 0.076458572812 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0809621171402 0.0737576698707 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.191705994639 0.150856017488 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0868348262492 0.0645574589148 135% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.5 11.7677419355 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 58.1214874552 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 10.1575268817 82% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.39 10.9000537634 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.03 8.01818996416 88% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 86.8835125448 61% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.002688172 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
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: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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