In many organizations, perhaps the best way to approach certain new projects is to assemble a group of people into a team.Having a team of people attack a project offers several advantages. First of all, a group of people has a wider range of knowledge, e

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In many organizations, perhaps the best way to approach certain new projects is to assemble a group of people into a team.

Having a team of people attack a project offers several advantages. First of all, a group of people has a wider range of knowledge, expertise, and skills than any single individual is likely to possess. Also, because of the numbers of people involved and the greater resources they possess, a group can work more quickly in response to the task assigned to it and can come up with highly creative solutions to problems and issues. Sometimes these creative solutions come about because a group is more likely to make risky decisions that an individual might not undertake. This is because the group spreads responsibility for a decision to all the members and thus no single individual can be held accountable if the decision turns out to be wrong.

Taking part in a group process can be very rewarding for members of the team. Team members who have a voice in making a decision will no doubt feel better about carrying out the work that is entailed by the decision than they might doing work that is imposed on them by others. Also, the individual team member has a much better chance to "shine", to get his or her contributions and ideas not only recognized but recognized as highly significant, because a team's overall results can be more far-reaching and have greater impact than what might have otherwise been possible for the person to accomplish or contribute working alone.

The passage and the lecture offer two opposing views regarding group work. While the text lists reasons in support of group work while approaching any new projects, the professor counters those logics. He points out many drawbacks of working in a group to refute the advantages listed in the passage.

First, the professor opposes the idea that group work enables a team to perform a task more quickly and helps to take any risky decisions. According to him, it takes a lot of time and struggle to come into consensus while working in a group. Although the text mentions that the involvement of large number of people help a team to perform a new project more quickly by using the resources the group members possess, the professor thinks it is very difficult to come into an agreement in a group work.

Second, the text states that working in a team helps each individuals to shine and contribute to the accomplishment of the task. However, the professor counters this idea because group work involves the risk of free rider. While the passage support group work because of it offers a great chance for an individual to contribute in the group work, the professor counters the idea and thinks group work may put more pressure on some active members of that team as there would be some inactive members who virtually would do nothing. According to him, these inactive members would only take credit which might displease the active members as they had to share the credit of performing the task with the inactive ones.

Finally, the professor states that group work may face difficulties due to some members who might act as influencer in that group. Those influencer might force the group to take a decision which is wrong and frustrate the success of the group work. Although the text mentions group work as advantageous since it helps individual to think freely, according to the lecture group work might consist of some members who would try to have some influence on the other group members and might obstruct the progress of the group by taking wrong decisions.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 132, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this influencer' or 'Those influencers'?
Suggestion: This influencer; Those influencers
... might act as influencer in that group. Those influencer might force the group to take a decisio...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, may, regarding, second, so, while

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 10.4613686534 29% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 5.04856512141 218% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 22.412803532 80% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 30.3222958057 158% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1718.0 1373.03311258 125% => OK
No of words: 356.0 270.72406181 131% => OK
Chars per words: 4.82584269663 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34372677135 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47165952509 2.5805825403 96% => OK
Unique words: 154.0 145.348785872 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.432584269663 0.540411800872 80% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 515.7 419.366225166 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 13.0662251656 99% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 76.0726840228 49.2860985944 154% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.153846154 110.228320801 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.3846153846 21.698381199 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.15384615385 7.06452816374 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.189613824758 0.272083759551 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0865274820036 0.0996497079465 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0507773346648 0.0662205650399 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.135483986166 0.162205337803 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0503715698813 0.0443174109184 114% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 13.3589403974 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.99 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.03 12.2367328918 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.04 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.7273730684 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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