You may choose between two professors who will be teaching a course that you must take at your university. If the following statements are the only information available to you about the differences between the two professors, which professor would you choose? Why?
-A professor who proves to be very popular in students’ evaluations
-A professor who was recently given an award for outstanding research
With taking courses being a crucial part of daily life of college students, sometimes it would be quite difficult to choose with limited information from two professors who will be teaching a required course. Given that a professor is only known for his positive evaluations from students while another is only known for his recent academic achievement, I reckon that the former would be a better choice for the class.
First of all, it is more possible for teachers with positive feedbacks from students to give more interesting lectures than those who are known for academic success since much information can be acquired from the students' evaluation. For example, teachers those are popular tend to exploit beyond the textbook, encourage free discussions in class, and leave more creative assignments. All these things make a class interesting, and I will be more willing be involved in it. As a result, I can certainly learn more from the class. On the contrary, one can barely assume whether an academically accomplished professor will provide these advantages and attending a class given by this professor thus bears more risks.
Additionally, it is reasonable to assume that professors popular among students can better focus on important points in required courses than professors popular in scientific society. In fact, scientific research doesn't resemble teaching a required class at all. A professor recently awarded for academic accomplishments can definitely offer excellent guidance when a student is seeking to begin his or her scientific research career. However, constant exposure to scientific research might contribute to the professor being too abstractive or demanding more than what a required course is meant for. On the other hand, favorable evaluations of a professor indicate than he or she has taught the course for a long time and must be familiar with the core points. Therefore, I am not inclined to choose a teacher who is renowned for academic success.
Finally, the required courses are usually pretty general, especially for an undergraduate student like me, while the professor recently awarded might only specialize in a small section of the course. In light of it, chances are that this professor gives several brilliant lectures on some topics but quality of other lectures is merely moderate. This situation is less possible if a teacher is well evaluated. Take my own major as an example. Cell biology is one of my required course and I can choose from several teachers. Due to the reason mentioned above, I don’t want to choose a teacher who specializes is animal biology and cares little about botanical biology. Instead, I would prefer a teacher who is popular among students, because he or she presumably does equally well on both parts.
In conclusion, I would choose a teacher with good evaluations rather than a teacher known for research achievements because the former is more suitable for required courses.
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Suggestion: students'; student's
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, so, therefore, thus, well, while, for example, i reckon, in conclusion, in fact, as a result, first of all, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 15.1003584229 179% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 9.8082437276 163% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 43.0788530466 81% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 52.1666666667 98% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2507.0 1977.66487455 127% => OK
No of words: 478.0 407.700716846 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.24476987448 4.8611393121 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67581127817 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85604929215 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 240.0 212.727598566 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.502092050209 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 792.9 618.680645161 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.1344086022 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.2826926914 48.9658058833 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.380952381 100.406767564 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.7619047619 20.6045352989 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.38095238095 5.45110844103 154% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 11.8709677419 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.165750541893 0.236089414692 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0551665001781 0.076458572812 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.046630918972 0.0737576698707 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103444850228 0.150856017488 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0568782878039 0.0645574589148 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 11.7677419355 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 58.1214874552 70% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 10.1575268817 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.41 10.9000537634 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.26 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 86.8835125448 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.5 10.002688172 195% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.0537634409 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.