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 recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
The recommendation presents a view that I do not agree with as I believe it is important to not only praise positive actions but to correct negative actions when they occur.
As a software engineer, I agree that it is always important to praise positive actions as it encourages actions that should be repeated. In psychology, positive reinforcement, or rewarding good behavior, has been shown to encourage productivity and overall quality of work. In comparison, negative reinforcement, or punishing behavior that is considered desirable, has been shown to decrease productivity and output. For example, positive reinforcement for a computer scientist may be appreciation of the scientist’s code or a raise. These behaviors will improve a computer scientist’s work ethic and code. In comparison, saying the computer scientist is doing a bad job or decreasing a salary may impact the work ethic of a computer scientist. With praise, at a subconscious level, the drive to repeat good behavior will be psychologically enforced.
For negative behavior, however, it is important to create an environment where negative actions are not repeated. Negative behavior may be something as simple as not providing proper documentation for code or something severe such as not reaching milestones in a project. If actions are ignored when the actions are first committed, the person may not even know that he/she is committing an incorrect action. Calling attention to negative behavior will allow the person to understand that he/she is committing an incorrect action and give space to correct the action.
For example, consider a student who is hired as a programmer in a company. In university, the student completes projects in the scope of weeks with more of a focus of completeness and correctness of projects. In the workplace, the student will have to provide documentation and work with other teammates on a project that will be developed in a time larger than a couple of weeks. If a student does not understand the importance of communicating their work effectively, calling attention to the behavior versus ignoring the behavior or punishing behavior will allow the student to correct the behavior in a timely manner.
This also fits with psychological studies over the subject. When punishment is handled in a positive manner where the subject is rewarded for bad behavior, the subject does not change his/her behavior. If the subject is disciplined with negative punishment, the subject’s behavior changes drastically. However, the subject is placed under high stress. Using the extinction method, or withholding positive or negative punishment and demonstrating positive actions, is just as effective as negative punishment while causing less psychological stress to the subject.
Thus, with psychological evidence, I can firmly state that praising positive actions is correct. However, ignoring negative actions, or positive punishment, can lead to repetition of unwanted behavior. Therefore, in order to change negative actions, the extinction methodology should be applied and positive behavior should be modeled and encouraged. If a person continues to demonstrate negative actions after positive behavior is modeled, the person should be disciplined.
In conclusion, while the suggestion is partially correct, following the instruction completely, especially with regards to negative behavior, can perpetuate unwanted behavior.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Consider replacing "in a timely manner" with adverb for "timely"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
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Message: Consider replacing "in a positive manner" with adverb for "positive"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, so, therefore, thus, while, for example, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.5258426966 149% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 58.6224719101 92% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 12.9106741573 170% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2949.0 2235.4752809 132% => OK
No of words: 526.0 442.535393258 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.60646387833 5.05705443957 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78901763229 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.26236018417 2.79657885939 117% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 215.323595506 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.437262357414 0.4932671777 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 939.6 704.065955056 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.7535423634 60.3974514979 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.423076923 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2307692308 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.80769230769 5.21951772744 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.97078651685 141% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 5.13820224719 253% => Less 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: 0.170471042905 0.243740707755 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0611615963479 0.0831039109588 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0493954811507 0.0758088955206 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.10350789307 0.150359130593 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.054344420523 0.0667264976115 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.1392134831 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.26 48.8420337079 70% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.5 12.1743820225 111% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.26 12.1639044944 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 131.0 100.480337079 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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