The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones Write a reasons in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree

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

Write a reasons in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree. ...

Beyond just an issue that parents or teachers may consider to best help their children and students, the idea of positive and negative reinforcement, or lack thereof, is an idea that has beed deeply studied in both psychology and neurology. The idea of reinforcement even has it's own niche field called Reinforcement Learning. If there is any one fact that such an immense amount of research has uncovered, it is that the issue of positive, neutral, and negative rewards corresponding to patterns of behavior is not a simple one. While it may be easy to think of many instances where positive reinforcement leads to better learning, the argument does not capture the nuances of this issue, let alone the idea of ignoring bad behavior working or not working.

The complexities of this issue can be demonstrated by an abstract scenario. Consider we have a student who contantly performs poorly in some domain, whether is be school or elsewhere. We can break the setting down into two cases, one for which the afforemention positive only reinforcement method works, and another case in which it falls short. On the side of the fence arguing in favor of the method, one may argue that the student would attempt to perform better if they recieve some positive reward, such as praise. If we make several assumptions, such as humans being beings that purely maximize for positive reward, this argument may hold. However, the fact that we must make such assumptions is itself an issue.

Examining an instance of embedded assumptions can help to better delineate the complexities of this issue. The previous argument rests on the assumption that the student finds value in the reward they are receiving. Assuming praise is a reward universally viewed as positive would, in it of itself, require a study and subsequent argument. While the initial idea seemed simple, it is that exact simplicity that leads to intricate details going unearthed. One could not even attempt to claim that these are the only two cases that classify the subject, as this argument only grazes one dimension of the complexity of the subject.

While it is impossible to deny that there are cases in which the proposed idea of praising positive actions and ignoring negative actions could assist in teaching, affirming it is the "best" way casts away the numerous, subtle complications that lie at the core of such an idea. The thought of even asserting there is a "best" way of approaching teaching entirely invalidates the possibility that unique situations require unique solutions. While one could not justifibly claim that positive-only reinforcement is the best way to teach, it is a method that surely has its use cases.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: been
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Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, may, so, while, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 11.3162921348 194% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 33.0505617978 127% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 45.0 58.6224719101 77% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2272.0 2235.4752809 102% => OK
No of words: 449.0 442.535393258 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.06013363029 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60321845022 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88398499606 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 215.323595506 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.498886414254 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 721.8 704.065955056 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.5028489335 60.3974514979 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.222222222 118.986275619 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.9444444444 23.4991977007 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.0 5.21951772744 38% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.17895628402 0.243740707755 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0524836301803 0.0831039109588 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0604447175845 0.0758088955206 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.114339872398 0.150359130593 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0749520924353 0.0667264976115 112% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.8 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 100.480337079 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 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: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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