Many teachers assign homework to students every day. Do you think that daily homework is necessary for students?
Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.
Experts throughout the developing and developed world have debated whether daily homework is essential to students. In spite of its intrinsic effectiveness on the academic accomplishment, the strain begot by homework is now becoming increasingly concerned by the public. This essay will discuss both views and use the examples from Hong Kong to demonstrate points.
To begin with, the assignment given by teacher is intuitively perceived as the key of managing the academic achievement. The central reason behind this is twofold, firstly the questions inside homework foster the memory of knowledge. Secondly, the embedded challenges are opportunities to let students practically applied the skill learnt in their daily lessons. In fact, recent empirical research from the Hong Kong University established that the results in final examination often grow with the volume of homework. Moreover, such effectiveness has been increasingly recognised in tertiary education, despite the arguments regarding academic strain. Therefore, it is conclusively clear that the existence of homework, to a considerable extent, intensify the effort spent on academic accomplishment.
Although there is a case for homework improving the learning quality, the accompanying pressure cannot be ignored. This is largely because homework often cost junior learners a significant amount of time, which in turn reduce their leisure time, which is crucial for unwinding oneself from schools. For instance, there was evidently a surge in the number of suicide cases among primary school students in Hong Kong and is believed to have a direct connection between the climb and the academic strain from daily homework. Consistent with this line of thinking is that enjoyable activities integrating with practical exercises would be a better alternative of homework, which comprise questions and answers only. Thus, it is possible to state beyond doubt that homework is likely to hinder the mental development of students.
In conclusion, homework has a vitally important role to play in excelling the academic performance, yet the accompanying pressure significantly stands in the way of the growth of teenagers and thus outweigh the benefits. Given the severity of the growing incidence of students' suicides, it is predicted that the average volume of homework will decrease in the foreseeable future.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, moreover, regarding, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, in spite of, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 24.0651302605 66% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 41.998997996 133% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2028.0 1615.20841683 126% => OK
No of words: 359.0 315.596192385 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.64902506964 5.12529762239 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35284910392 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.05740476046 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 176.041082164 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.58495821727 0.561755894193 104% => OK
syllable_count: 636.3 506.74238477 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.9130893459 49.4020404114 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.75 106.682146367 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4375 20.7667163134 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 7.06120827912 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.237554234473 0.244688304435 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0715778582824 0.084324248473 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0329152560633 0.0667982634062 49% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.13643665934 0.151304729494 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0339480971998 0.056905535591 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 13.0946893788 125% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 32.22 50.2224549098 64% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.3001002004 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.79 12.4159519038 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.09 8.58950901804 117% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 78.4519038076 156% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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