Some students prefer classes with open discussions between the professor and students and almost no lectures. Other students prefer classes with lectures and almost no discussions. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your ans

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Some students prefer classes with open discussions between the professor and students and almost no lectures. Other students prefer classes with lectures and almost no discussions. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Education is important in our society. It often determines our level of success. Some people believe that the best education comes from classes that focus on discussions. Others disagree. In my view, courses should focus on lectures for two important reasons.

First, lectures ensure that the most important material is learned. When you take classes that focus on discussion, a few students often talk the most. As a result, the class focuses on what they want and not as much as other students or the professor. For example, when I was in university, I took a class on the history of the Caribbean. This class was almost 100% discussion. There was one student who always asked questions and talked about her personal life. If this class were lecture based, students would have been able to learn more about the Caribbean. Though this may be an extreme example, as you can clearly see, lectures create a stronger learning environment.

Second, students still get to ask questions in lecture-based classes. During a lecture, a student can still raise her hand and ask a question or make a comment. For example, in university, I took a beginning chemistry class with about 150 students, maybe more. As you can imagine, this class was almost 100% lecture based. I noticed that a student would always ask a question or make a comment during the lecture. This created a very small, but useful discussion that other students could hear. This happened at least two or three times everyday and in my other lecture-based classes as well. This experience taught me that lecture-based classes are better.

In sum, the most preferable classes are lecture based. Not only do students learn more but they also still have a chance to ask questions and make comments. We should all recognize the effectiveness of lecture-based courses.

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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'if', 'may', 'second', 'so', 'still', 'well', 'at least', 'for example', 'as a result', 'in my view']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.220630372493 0.229887763892 96% => OK
Verbs: 0.160458452722 0.158761421928 101% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0687679083095 0.0866891130778 79% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0659025787966 0.046263068375 142% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0515759312321 0.0685040099705 75% => OK
Prepositions: 0.10888252149 0.118717715034 92% => OK
Participles: 0.0143266475645 0.0351676179071 41% => Some participles wanted.
Conjunctions: 2.71099261689 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Infinitives: 0.00859598853868 0.0309702414327 28% => Some infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.0 0.00188951952338 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.100286532951 0.0887237588012 113% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.025787965616 0.0209618222197 123% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0171919770774 0.0139019557991 124% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1831.0 2387.08602151 77% => OK
No of words: 306.0 408.028673835 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.98366013072 5.86048508987 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18244613648 4.48200974243 93% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.349673202614 0.338922669872 103% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.277777777778 0.251872472559 110% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.202614379085 0.174417080927 116% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.104575163399 0.112833075102 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71099261689 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 212.727598566 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.535947712418 0.524397521467 102% => OK
Word variations: 55.3352268539 59.2087087015 93% => OK
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6684587814 116% => OK
Sentence length: 12.75 20.5533526081 62% => OK
Sentence length SD: 23.635542915 48.84282405 48% => OK
Chars per sentence: 76.2916666667 120.699889404 63% => OK
Words per sentence: 12.75 20.5533526081 62% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.541666666667 0.644075263715 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.5376344086 88% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.54480286738 126% => OK
Readability: 40.5277777778 45.7405998639 89% => OK
Elegance: 1.23711340206 1.45489161554 85% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.223094845747 0.300154397459 74% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0871634842687 0.103427244359 84% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0838507043845 0.0752933317313 111% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.401222314473 0.497263757937 81% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.104853257667 0.151897553556 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0643459668871 0.114077575197 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0423943587998 0.0781384742642 54% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.283898083621 0.336927656856 84% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0798080063314 0.067059652881 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139242514295 0.210909579961 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0402198146493 0.0618886996521 65% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8870967742 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.86379928315 26% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.91756272401 224% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 10.0 8.42114695341 119% => OK
Negative topic words: 0.0 2.4623655914 0% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 5.0 2.75985663082 181% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 13.6433691756 110% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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