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 spe

Group work projects are widely used by a lot of universities nowadays to improve the academic educational level. However, this may have devastating effects on both students and projects. That's why I disagree with assigning group work projects, and I believe that working alone would be more effective and productive.

First, students who work in groups on a certain project may lead to another student to become lazy and irresponsible. The partner in that group would throw all the work and responsibility on other students. This may cause the distribution of work to be unfair between the group members. Because of that, some students would be extremely upset and this will probably cause a low overall grade.

Furthermore, students working in groups may tend to waste their time on things other than the project. Students may lose their focus on finding good and productive ideas to improve their work, and otherwise focus on different things. For example, the last group project that I worked on was not a good experience for me. Me and my friends started to talk about different stuff and personal issues. So we lost our focus on the project and the time flew by so quickly. The due date came and we were not done. Because of that we got a very bad grade, in spite of the fact that all of us used to get a really excellent score when we work alone.

Another reason would be that group work projects may cause a reduction in the information and skills that we are expected to learn. Usually, in group work there would be a division in the tasks. However, this would decrease the amount of work done by each individual. Students would not be aware of what other students did and would not learn the skills used. For example, if a student was supposed to gather the references that should be used to obtain the information for the project. On the other hand, another student would be responsible for getting the material, and another one would be responsible for organizing and final review. Here, every student would only know what he did, and every one would become lost, especially if there is a lack of communication and different levels of understanding from different perspectives.

As a conclusion, working in groups for a project may lead to a reduction in the final result. This may be unfair to some students and would harm the process of learning. That is why I prefer always to work alone on my individual project to reflect the uniqueness of my own personality rather than losing the identity of the project

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Average: 6 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 188, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: That's
... effects on both students and projects. Thats why I disagree with assigning group wor...
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Line 11, column 185, Rule ID: ADVERB_WORD_ORDER[9]
Message: The adverb 'always' is usually put before the verb 'prefer'.
Suggestion: always prefer
... the process of learning. That is why I prefer always to work alone on my individual project ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, really, so, as to, for example, in spite of, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 9.8082437276 234% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 19.0 13.8261648746 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 43.0788530466 81% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 52.1666666667 102% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2100.0 1977.66487455 106% => OK
No of words: 440.0 407.700716846 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.77272727273 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57997565096 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64238731904 2.67179642975 99% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 212.727598566 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.459090909091 0.524837075471 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 648.9 618.680645161 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.994623655914 0% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6003584229 117% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.1910460518 48.9658058833 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.5 100.406767564 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.3333333333 20.6045352989 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.375 5.45110844103 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 11.8709677419 34% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 3.85842293907 311% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.225793586371 0.236089414692 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0783166526768 0.076458572812 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0560368055191 0.0737576698707 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.158026433472 0.150856017488 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0527745714851 0.0645574589148 82% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.2 11.7677419355 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 58.1214874552 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.39 10.9000537634 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.36 8.01818996416 92% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 86.8835125448 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => 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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