Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
When classmates or colleagues communicate about a project in person instead of by e-mail, they will produce better work for the project.
Undoubtedly, in our modern society, group projects play a critical role as far as students' success is concerned. With this in mind, a heated controversy exists as to the best way of doing teamwork projects for students. Although most people believe that the advantages of using e-mail in communicating about projects for them far outweigh those of personal meetings, I believe otherwise. The reasons why I think so are manifold which will be elaborated upon hereunder.
To begin with, the most rational justification for my opinion is that the positive effects of personal meetings in students' performance in group projects are such great that no one can downplay it. To put it differently, when communicating in person, rather than by such state-of-the-art technologies as e-mail, about their projects, students can provide themselves a great many of opportunities, two of which are presented in this article, which can dramatically affect the performance of their assignment. Take their stress level as the most patently obvious example; numerous studies have revealed that personal meetings can dramatically decrease students' stress level about their educational group assignments. Thus, due to the fact that stress is a contributing factor in many illnesses, by doing so, students can give themselves the excellent chance of not only improving both their physical and mental health but also enhancing their mental abilities and concentration, which can lay the groundwork for their great performance in fulfilling that group project. Moreover, from the psychological standpoint, according to one study that I recently read, participating in some regular personal meetings can improve students' motivation for doing their activities, and this can be beneficial for both students and their performance whether it contributes to stopping members from getting a free ride in team or decreasing the workload they have to carry on their shoulders. Consequently, in so doing, not only can students reduce their stress level and improve their performance, but they will be able to enjoy a satisfiable teamwork environment and enhance their group performance as well. As a consequence, who can ignore these advantages provided and do not prefer personal meetings?
Additionally, another rationale to endorse my point of view is that the negative effects of using e-mail for communicating about group projects in students' performance cannot be ignored as well. Take students' time efficiency which plays a critical role in their success as the first example; it goes without saying that although most people believe that technology is the open sesame for all human problems, sometimes it is the notorious root of all evil. When trying to talk about their projects with their teammates, students have to waste a huge amount of their time whether they have to wait for their teammates' answer or preparing, writing, and sending their own messages. Hence, this social communication can be assumed as a sheer waste of time and may negatively affect team efficiency. In addition, it is also crystal clear that through social communication students will not be provided the great opportunity of asking their questions from their teammates as clearly as possible, persuading each other about the best method of fulfilling project, and above all, clearing up all the misconceptions; thus, by using this method, students will not be able to make the best use of the blessing of teamwork, and they will take it for granted. Therefore, as far as my personal perspective is concerned, these negative effects of communicating by e-mail are strong enough to tip the scales in favor of communicating in person.
To sum it up, with all this taken into account, I do believe that the pros of personal communication in fulfilling group projects, without doubt, far outweigh those of social ones. A great many reasons support my idea, of which two of the most important are the conspicuous benefits of personal meeting in students' performance and the negative effects of social communication on group efficiency.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, hence, if, may, moreover, so, therefore, thus, well, as to, i think, in addition, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 15.1003584229 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 9.8082437276 184% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.0286738351 190% => OK
Pronoun: 67.0 43.0788530466 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 87.0 52.1666666667 167% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 8.0752688172 248% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3452.0 1977.66487455 175% => OK
No of words: 648.0 407.700716846 159% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.32716049383 4.8611393121 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.04537849152 4.48103885553 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0286491491 2.67179642975 113% => OK
Unique words: 285.0 212.727598566 134% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.439814814815 0.524837075471 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1044.0 618.680645161 169% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 15.0 4.94265232975 303% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 34.0 20.1344086022 169% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 100.64646994 48.9658058833 206% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 181.684210526 100.406767564 181% => OK
Words per sentence: 34.1052631579 20.6045352989 166% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.68421052632 5.45110844103 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => 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: 0.204408424987 0.236089414692 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0843838369744 0.076458572812 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0478661936976 0.0737576698707 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156625879763 0.150856017488 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0541878610974 0.0645574589148 84% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.7 11.7677419355 176% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.97 58.1214874552 64% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.10430107527 183% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.6 10.1575268817 163% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.23 10.9000537634 131% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.9 8.01818996416 111% => OK
difficult_words: 147.0 86.8835125448 169% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.6 10.0537634409 155% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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