Essay topics: TPO-33 - Independent Writing Task
Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
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.
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Contemporary educators have understood that assigning students to work together is beneficial for the pupils and allows them to learn the material taught more efficiently. As a result, more and more students are assigned to work together in school projects. Although someone may disagree with the stance, I profoundly affirm it because of the reasons which will be discussed in details below.
Firstly, when students work together they tend to control and encourage each other to do the assigned project better. Each member of a group has a rooted feeling of responsibility for his fellow this is a natural feeling which is inherited from our predecessors. Thus a pupil works harder in order not to let his classmates down. Additionally to it, even if a person would like to avoid doing his part of the project, he will be forced by the team members who depend on him. By contrast, a student who was assigned to work alone on a project does not have such powerful motivation to work and does not feel the group control of his action. In other words, organizing groups for studying is more effective than work without a group.
Secondly, pupils who work in groups may benefit from discussions as well. It is a well-known fact that when a person has to protect his viewpoint and assault an opposed prospect, the person acquires a deeper understanding of the issue discussed and learns more about the topic as well. There are several reasons which contribute to this beneficial effect, for instance, a student gets a new prospect on his own ideas and hears new facts, evidence about which he was not aware of. At the same time, a person who studies alone may be trapped in his narrow understanding without an opportunity to look at it from another angle.
Admittedly, there are some reasons which might allow someone to state that working alone may be more useful for a child. Chiefly, the one may aver that a person will learn how to rely on his own ability, knowledge in order to tackle a given assignment. However, I still buttress the idea that giving group assignments is more beneficial for progeny because this type of studying does not exclude work alone. In fact, a person has to devote spare time to the work on the task at home, a student has to rely on and organize himself but at the same time, a youngster has an opportunity to demonstrate his work and get a precious feedback about the work done from his classmates whom on trust.
To wrap up, organizing groups which work on assignments together is a great idea which provides students with valuable experience of working within a team, gives them additional motivation to perform the work and allows pupils to discuss their understanding with each other in order to get deeper knowledge in the topic.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 26 in 30
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 481 350
No. of Characters: 2240 1500
No. of Different Words: 223 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.683 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.657 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.608 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 151 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 114 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 73 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 42 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.722 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.613 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.778 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.334 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.544 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.105 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 264, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...ich is inherited from our predecessors. Thus a pupil works harder in order not to le...
^^^^
Line 3, column 331, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Additionally,
...n order not to let his classmates down. Additionally to it, even if a person would like to a...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, still, thus, well, as to, for instance, in fact, as a result, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 9.8082437276 102% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.0286738351 172% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 43.0788530466 77% => OK
Preposition: 78.0 52.1666666667 150% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2298.0 1977.66487455 116% => OK
No of words: 481.0 407.700716846 118% => OK
Chars per words: 4.77754677755 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68313059816 4.48103885553 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66045014891 2.67179642975 100% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 212.727598566 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.467775467775 0.524837075471 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 715.5 618.680645161 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 9.59856630824 42% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.994623655914 101% => OK
Article: 8.0 3.08781362007 259% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.6003584229 87% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 20.1344086022 129% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.8015250926 48.9658058833 132% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.666666667 100.406767564 127% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.7222222222 20.6045352989 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.94444444444 5.45110844103 146% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => 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: 0.262470703189 0.236089414692 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0981136996317 0.076458572812 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0666194124061 0.0737576698707 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.172615962259 0.150856017488 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0434972743182 0.0645574589148 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 11.7677419355 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 58.1214874552 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.1575268817 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.74 10.9000537634 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.01818996416 101% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 86.8835125448 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.0537634409 123% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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