Summarize the points made in the lecture being sure to explain how they cast doubt on specific points made in the reading passage In many organizations perhaps the best way to approach certain new projects is to assemble a group of people into a team Havi | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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Summarize the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they cast doubt on specific points made in the reading passage.

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.

Both the reading passage and the lecture discuss whether approaching a project benefits from the group of people or not. The former argues that there are two benefits to the organization, but the latter contradicts each of these points.

First of all, the author of the passage claims that a team consists of a wider range of knowledge, has large resources, and brings no personal risks. However, the lecturer contends that having a team individually doesn't contribute fully. Additionally, he cites that working in a team brings no personal recognition even if the project is done.

Second of all, the texts assets that in a team, members of the team can be rewarding even they perform well. However, in contrast, since it takes longer to go in consensus the progress of the project is slow. Additionally, he mentions that in order to go into the negotiation, more meeting needs.

All in all, the audio contends that, if the project goes in the wrong direction, every individual in the group are blamed.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 214, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...ontends that having a team individually doesnt contribute fully. Additionally, he cite...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, second, so, well, in contrast, first of all

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 10.4613686534 48% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 7.30242825607 55% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 12.0772626932 58% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 22.412803532 54% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 30.3222958057 76% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 842.0 1373.03311258 61% => OK
No of words: 171.0 270.72406181 63% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.92397660819 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.61617157096 4.04702891845 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73951486425 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 102.0 145.348785872 70% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.59649122807 0.540411800872 110% => OK
syllable_count: 252.0 419.366225166 60% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 18.2499788601 49.2860985944 37% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 93.5555555556 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 21.698381199 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.55555555556 7.06452816374 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.15970118381 0.272083759551 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0624271275801 0.0996497079465 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0560189528767 0.0662205650399 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0885286501665 0.162205337803 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0319989557469 0.0443174109184 72% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 13.3589403974 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 43.0 63.6247240618 68% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, second, so, well, in contrast, first of all

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