Claim: Group assignments that students must work together to complete should replace a
substantial amount of traditional lecture-based instruction in college and university
courses.
Reason: It is vital for students to gain experience collaborating with peers to study a topic
and to achieve a common goal.
The claim made is indeed a debatable one. Indisputably, students will find group assignments to be beneficial as it is easier for them to discuss with their peers than with lecturers. Nevertheless, the traditional lecture-based instruction is proven to have an upper hand over group assignments for various reasons. Consequently, I would like to argue against the claim made with some pieces of evidence.
Firstly, traditional lecture-based instruction which is quite popular all over the world is preferred, because for anything sort of discussions to happen on a particular topic, proper domain knowledge on that subject of matter is important. To illustrate, lets consider a case where students are ready to do their group assignments with zero knowledge about the topic on which assignment has to be made. As a result of this, each student would gather information they can fetch from internet and discuss about them. This would result in anything but increase in knowledge as one cannot expect internet to have correct information and as well as sometimes too much of information can be overwhelming resulting in lack of clarity.
Secondly, lecturers are definitely more knowledgeable than students as they have spent considerable number of years teaching the same topic. Some lecturers nowadays even work outside the college hours on the field which they expertise. This practical knowledge can be shared to students which will be beneficial for them once they enter the industrial world. With to respect scoring good grades in examination, lecturers have better knowledge about the question paper patterns and response type expected by the evaluators.
Additionally, when students get a chance to group study only minimal percentage of the lot would actually end up studying. This is due to distraction caused. To illustrate, consider an example of a student who is does his assignments regularly, if his friend by chance comes to meet him for group studies, would they actually study? With internet taking over the world today, there are enormous amount of topics which might cause distraction and consequently they might end up discussing about a celebrity, a game, politics and what not.
In conclusion, although group assignments are found to be beneficial to improve students grade as well as practical knowledge. By considering the facts discussed, one can surely say that it isn't possible without proper domain knowlegde and help from professors. Therefore, it be a great idea if its possible to collaborate both and benefit from it.
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Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'amounts'?
Suggestion: amounts
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Message: Did you mean 'is'?
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, consequently, first, firstly, if, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, as to, in conclusion, sort of, as a result, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 58.6224719101 107% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2154.0 2235.4752809 96% => OK
No of words: 406.0 442.535393258 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.30541871921 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48881294772 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98240775212 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 215.323595506 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.549261083744 0.4932671777 111% => OK
syllable_count: 663.3 704.065955056 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.8427731723 60.3974514979 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.368421053 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3684210526 23.4991977007 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.21052631579 5.21951772744 157% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.24198466601 0.243740707755 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0759682521745 0.0831039109588 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0577877085084 0.0758088955206 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141187077002 0.150359130593 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0681688344652 0.0667264976115 102% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.1392134831 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.1639044944 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 100.480337079 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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