Ways of teaching are always controversial, and I contend that no teaching style universally fits all. Some people may feel that being required to watch lecture videos before classes can be somewhat unnecessary. However, based on my experience, I prefer to familiarise the lecture in advance and make classes the discussion time. I am of this opinion for two reasons, which I will explore in the essay.
First of all, giving the class time to students improves the quality of the study and new directions to consider the subject. The time of the class is critically important as it is a high moment to put students together, creates a perfect atmosphere to communicate. Teachers will gain an opportunity to talk with students more efficiently as they already did the preview. What is more, some questions made by others are unique and refreshing to the content we are learning. I am the one who is benefited from this style of teaching. My religious history professor assigns us the lecture video she recorded before and answers some confusion we may have by watching videos alone when we sit in the classroom. It is a great opportunity for me to listen to other people’s opinions of a certain section in the lecture, and I learnt abundant new perspectives besides the textbooks and the knowledge that the professor did not cover in the video.
Furthermore, familiarising the lecture by video eases students’ pressure of study. Some people may argue that watching videos before the class adds additional obligations to students. However, based on what I experienced, this way made my study time easier than before. Professor can assign the topic of some assignments before the class, and students will be more flexible in deciding when to get started. Take an instance. I often prepare my section for the group work right after I finished the video watching and leave my class time for group discussions. Moreover, with assistant from the professor, the problems we encounter during the discussion can be resolved instantly without taking time to look up extra materials on our own. In contrast, my assignments would take me much more time if my professor did not develop this way of teaching.
In conclusion, I think that previewing the lecture and discussing it during classes will be more effective for college studies. This is because the quality of studies can be significantly improved if professors can take advantage of actual classes sufficiently, and this style of teaching would not add pressure to students but contradictorily reduce it.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, first, furthermore, however, if, look, may, moreover, so, i think, in conclusion, in contrast, first of all, what is more
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 9.8082437276 143% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 43.0788530466 97% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 52.1666666667 109% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2138.0 1977.66487455 108% => OK
No of words: 424.0 407.700716846 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04245283019 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53775939005 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90165660814 2.67179642975 109% => OK
Unique words: 219.0 212.727598566 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.516509433962 0.524837075471 98% => OK
syllable_count: 675.9 618.680645161 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.51792114695 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.7857996857 48.9658058833 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.80952381 100.406767564 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1904761905 20.6045352989 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.42857142857 5.45110844103 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.252491433624 0.236089414692 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0766023431401 0.076458572812 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0592094667952 0.0737576698707 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.176250071746 0.150856017488 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0350005203119 0.0645574589148 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 11.7677419355 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 10.9000537634 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.01818996416 109% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 86.8835125448 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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