Study of cooperation and conflict between same age groups children
The reading passage and the lecture both are about the effects of peer groups on children. The author contends that organizing children into groups can encourage tolerance and cooperation while discouraging conflict and competition. The lecturer challenges this claim and gives arguments to bolster his position.
To begin with, the author notes that there is a feeling of equality in terms of status and power among children. Therefore, teasing and joking are acceptable. In fact, it helps to build tolerance among the peers of the group. The lecturer challenges this point by stating a study in which 22 children each 11 years of age were divided into two groups. It was found that negative attitudes increased among the children of the two groups. In that, they named their groups the "eagles" and the "rattles". Consequently, it led to increased teasing. Thus, it resulted in more hostility which was counterproductive to what the author claimed.
Secondly, the author points out that structured competition such as team sports and games will challenge individuals to perform better for the group. In turn, this will lead to reduced conflicts among peers because the competition is structured and healthy. The speaker's counterargument to this argument is that in the study mentioned above when the children were given collaborative work such as basketball games or cabin inspections along with prizes announced for the winners, these structured tasks resulted in increased conflicts among the team members.
Lastly, it is noted in the passage that cooperation is the ability that children can develop naturally by socializing with their friends, classmates, and teammates. They all experience similar issues while learning in their regular life. The lecturer disagrees with this idea because, in the research study when the children were given some important tasks that required collaboration such as fixing a broken water tank, the prejudice of conflict and competition disappeared in a few days. The differences were resolved and the job was done perfectly. This shows that the quality of being a good team player does not come naturally or by socializing. Instead, children develop this quality by being part of the team.
To sum up, the writer presents the points for how peer groups can be beneficial for enhancing tolerance and cooperation and reducing conflicts. However, the lecturer believes otherwise and provides arguments to support his reasoning.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 234, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... discouraging conflict and competition. The lecturer challenges this claim and give...
^^^
Line 5, column 263, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'speakers'' or 'speaker's'?
Suggestion: speakers'; speaker's
...petition is structured and healthy. The speakers counterargument to this argument is tha...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, while, in fact, such as, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 7.30242825607 233% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 51.0 30.3222958057 168% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 5.01324503311 299% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2107.0 1373.03311258 153% => OK
No of words: 389.0 270.72406181 144% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.41645244216 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44106776838 4.04702891845 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01887936308 2.5805825403 117% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 145.348785872 140% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52442159383 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 630.0 419.366225166 150% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 3.25607064018 307% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 13.0662251656 168% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 61.4056421883 49.2860985944 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.7727272727 110.228320801 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6818181818 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.59090909091 7.06452816374 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 4.33554083885 300% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.238828923789 0.272083759551 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0604441768711 0.0996497079465 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0611217213858 0.0662205650399 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.13304152027 0.162205337803 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0468947387983 0.0443174109184 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.86 12.2367328918 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.46 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 63.6247240618 154% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 234, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... discouraging conflict and competition. The lecturer challenges this claim and give...
^^^
Line 5, column 263, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'speakers'' or 'speaker's'?
Suggestion: speakers'; speaker's
...petition is structured and healthy. The speakers counterargument to this argument is tha...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, while, in fact, such as, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 7.30242825607 233% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 51.0 30.3222958057 168% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 5.01324503311 299% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2107.0 1373.03311258 153% => OK
No of words: 389.0 270.72406181 144% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.41645244216 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44106776838 4.04702891845 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01887936308 2.5805825403 117% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 145.348785872 140% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52442159383 0.540411800872 97% => OK
syllable_count: 630.0 419.366225166 150% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 3.25607064018 307% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 13.0662251656 168% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 61.4056421883 49.2860985944 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.7727272727 110.228320801 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6818181818 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.59090909091 7.06452816374 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 4.33554083885 300% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.238828923789 0.272083759551 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0604441768711 0.0996497079465 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0611217213858 0.0662205650399 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.13304152027 0.162205337803 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0468947387983 0.0443174109184 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.86 12.2367328918 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.46 8.42419426049 100% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 63.6247240618 154% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.