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The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.

Teaching and learning is basis of the knowledge on which the society functions. An effictive way of teaching can bring a society from ruins however an ineffective and flawed way could crumble it to pieces. The issue whether the best way to teach is to praise positive actions and to ignore negative actions is flawed according to me.
While its true that praising a postive action can give a positive feedback loop on the learning process and promote positive attitude but at the same time ignoring negative actions can lead to adverse effect. Consider for example a brilliant student who does not have manners and ethics in place could use his brilliance for a distructive purpose, causing harm to society and individuals. Thus, its important to mitigate these effect by not just praising the positive actions but also focusing on the negative actions for overall development of an individual.
On a similar lines, what if a pharmacy gives you a drug that would surely cure ailments but also comes with a lot of side effects? Even though the medicine works well on the ailment but was it worth the negative side effects that caused another disease? Thus, even in development of these drugs its important not just to praise the working of these on specific diseases but also to make sure the negative actions of these drugs are as minimal as possible. Similarly, teaching practices should not ignore the negative actions as they are equally important as the positive actions.
Furthermore, I believe it's far more important to improve on the negative aspect than to try and perfect an already positive aspect. As we see in human psychology, we as a human give far more weight to something negative vs something positive called as "negative bias". This behaviour is useful in survival and in day-to-day lifestyle, a slight hint of negative action can trigger a counter-response, to an extent to saving one's life. Thus its extremely important to have negative actions in control, that could potentially damage someone's image far more than a positive action could mitigate.
Thus, I believe the best way to teach is not just to praise the positive actions but also to not ignore on the negative actions. A teacher, may it be a parent or professional, should give equal if not more attention to the negative actions of an individual.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, may, similarly, so, thus, well, while, for example

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 19.5258426966 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 58.6224719101 82% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1956.0 2235.4752809 87% => OK
No of words: 395.0 442.535393258 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.95189873418 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.45809453852 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7811091633 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 215.323595506 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.486075949367 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 648.9 704.065955056 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 20.2370786517 59% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 32.0 23.0359550562 139% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 80.3310424985 60.3974514979 133% => OK
Chars per sentence: 163.0 118.986275619 137% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.9166666667 23.4991977007 140% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.25 5.21951772744 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 7.80617977528 102% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 10.2758426966 19% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.287551975249 0.243740707755 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100146398333 0.0831039109588 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0695950139109 0.0758088955206 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169914261915 0.150359130593 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0348055344671 0.0667264976115 52% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.3 14.1392134831 129% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.0 48.8420337079 80% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 12.1743820225 130% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.98 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 100.480337079 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.8971910112 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 11.2143820225 132% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
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