The reading passage and the lecture are both about the effects of teamwork. While the writer focuses on the advantages of having people working in a team, the professor doubts that teamwork would offer such benefits. His stance is based on a recent experiment carried out at a company.
First, according to the group project experiment, some members were observed to get free rides, meaning they didn't have to work much. It was only some of the members who put in lots of effort and contributed to the project progress. That being said, when the project went well, the recognition was given to the whole group and no individuals. This completely contrasts the claim made in the reading that some enthusiastic workers will have a chance shine and receive the recognition they deserve. Working in groups may not be rewarding for hard-working members as believed by the writer.
Second, it is mentioned in the article that groups tend to work at a faster pace since there are more people dedicating their expertise in tackling the task. The speaker casts doubt on this claim. He thinks a group of people will not likely to move more quick than an alone worker. In the example, it took groups a long time to reach consensus and a number of meetings in order to arrive at agreement.
Third, some dominant members might arise and have influence over the group’s decisions. As a result, the majority of the group might focus on the influencers’ ideas while ignoring the others who are trying to point out the issues with bad ideas. This contrasts with the assumption in the reading passage that teamwork makes use of members’ resources and allows more creative ideas to come into play. In the end, if the project fails, the blame will be on every one, including the influencers, the contributors and the free-riders.
- TPO 59 integrated 81
- TOEFL T P O 09 Integrated Writing Task 68
- TPO 45 independent writing taskDo you agree or disagree with the following statement In the past young people depended too much on their parents to make decisions for them today young people are better able to make decisions about their own lives Use s 73
- TPO53 Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is more important for governments to spend money to improve Internet access than to improve public transportation Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 93
- Tpo15 Do you agree or disagree with the following statement In order to become financially responsible adults children should learn to manage their own money at young age Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 73
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 110, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...bserved to get free rides, meaning they didnt have to work much. It was only some of ...
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Line 3, column 147, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...ey didnt have to work much. It was only some of the members who put in lots of effort and c...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, may, second, so, third, thus, well, while, as to, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 5.04856512141 139% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 12.0772626932 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 22.412803532 71% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 30.3222958057 152% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 5.01324503311 140% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1513.0 1373.03311258 110% => OK
No of words: 312.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.84935897436 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20279927342 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59180349341 2.5805825403 100% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 145.348785872 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.576923076923 0.540411800872 107% => OK
syllable_count: 457.2 419.366225166 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 21.2450331126 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.4818945908 49.2860985944 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.5625 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5 21.698381199 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.8125 7.06452816374 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0131219009801 0.272083759551 5% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.00415905520376 0.0996497079465 4% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0161079515401 0.0662205650399 24% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.00876188476068 0.162205337803 5% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0151760295756 0.0443174109184 34% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 13.3589403974 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 11.0289183223 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.85 12.2367328918 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.42419426049 98% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 63.6247240618 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.498013245 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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