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
Deciding which course to attend is indispensable for a college student, and the course you choose would directly affect your learning experience of the whole semester. While some students prefer a professor with fabulous awards in relevant fields since these achievements can illustrate that this tutor is the specialist in his area and competent enough to guide others. From my perspective of view, I would attend the most popular one, simply because this supervisor can flexibly control the teaching process and pay more attention to communicate with individuals.
For one, the class offered by a popular professor can be more interesting rather than fixed or rigid, and it is easier for students to be attracted and concentrated. Owing to several years of teaching experience, this kind of lecturer can expertly manipulate the lecturing process, such as when to introduce a new concept, when to give some vivid examples to illustrate an abstract theory, and when to tell a humorous story in order to have a short break. These mini-skills lead students to learn effectively and efficiently, and help students save a lot of precious time, which saved could be used to do something meaningful, such as volunteering, personal interests or just recreation form heavy study stress. This kind of teacher is always most welcomed by students, even though they are just ordinary teachers without any glorious titles, since students feel enjoyable in the progress of learning.
For another, the popular professors are usually more accessible and patient to answer students’ problems, while an outstanding scholar might be quite busy and arrogant. Have you ever been rejected when you asked for an extra explanation simply because he had to prepare for the upcoming academic conference? Have you ever been laughed at when you consulted a basic term simply because he thought it was stupid to answer such common sense? If so, you might lose your motive power and not willing to participate in the lecture. However, things are quite different when you face a popular professor since he has taught thousands of various students and knew diverse solutions to different difficulties. Most importantly, the popular lecturer enjoys listening to students and answering their problems.
Admittedly, the one with outstanding awards must be qualified for academic research, and he can offer professional opinions on his fields and specific suggestions to those who are engaging in his research. However, most students coming to lectures aim at learning new and basic principles instead of purchasing new cutting edges, so it is not the capacity of how to publish revolutionary papers but how to make students understand smoothly that values most. One of my personal experiences could be cited here as a proper example. I once took a class with a well-known scholar, since I believed he would help me aware of the newest technology, however, the fact was, I always had difficulty in following his logic. As a result, I had to spend extra time and energy reviewing handouts after class, which turned out to an awful memory.
Hence, although outstanding awards might be attractive by some means, I would still choose a popular professor for his experience and easy-going.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, hence, however, if, so, still, well, while, kind of, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 9.8082437276 153% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 13.8261648746 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 43.0788530466 97% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 52.1666666667 117% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2751.0 1977.66487455 139% => OK
No of words: 526.0 407.700716846 129% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23003802281 4.8611393121 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78901763229 4.48103885553 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86887105713 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 291.0 212.727598566 137% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.553231939163 0.524837075471 105% => OK
syllable_count: 855.0 618.680645161 138% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 3.51792114695 256% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 20.1344086022 134% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 55.9571957503 48.9658058833 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 144.789473684 100.406767564 144% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.6842105263 20.6045352989 134% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.10526315789 5.45110844103 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.188536296251 0.236089414692 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0640088085813 0.076458572812 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.061212032751 0.0737576698707 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107317492829 0.150856017488 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0637232890967 0.0645574589148 99% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.0 11.7677419355 144% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 58.1214874552 76% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 10.1575268817 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.35 10.9000537634 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.36 8.01818996416 117% => OK
difficult_words: 146.0 86.8835125448 168% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.002688172 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.0537634409 127% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.247311828 137% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 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.