Claim: Group assignments that students must work together to complete should replace a substantial amount of traditional lecture-based instruction in college and university courses.
Reason: It is vital for students to gain experience collaborating with peers to study a topic and to achieve a common goal.
The college student’s life or the university life is often quoted to be the most important one in a humans life. While it is often redolent of friends, parties and memories; life as a university/college student often comprises of classes, modules and assignments. As the young teenager enters the world of unknown challenges start rising right from the day one. In this mix of opaqueness, adjustment and classes; students are expected to perform their best to stay afloat in the increasing assignments and commitments. These four-six years of college life transforms students from awkward teenagers to refined adults ready to enter worklife. However, in arduous this journey of transformation, a major role is that of assignments. Interestingly, the role of assignments is often ignored. The above stated prompt suggests the importance of group assignments in place of traditional lecture-based instruction can promote more experience gaining among the students. I mostly agree with this suggestion and argue this for few reasons.
To begin, group assignments aid in promoting collaboration among the otherwise introvert peers. It also proves beneficial to extroverts to branch out. Collaboration among students promotes creativity, responsibility and develops friendships that last a life time. Secondly, promulgating collaboration among peers help in personality development. Researches have proven that personality development continues till 22 years of age in the adult life. Therefore, fostering good friendly collaborating atmosphere can prove to be beneficial for the student’s enhancement as a person. Collaboration will also expose students to challenges and thus, create an environment buzzing with creativity and problem solving thinking. When students will encounter real life challenges during the collaboration, there will surely be brain storming sessions for overcoming the hindrance. Moreover, when students are motivated to collaborate instead of attending lectures; the culture of spoon-feeding will end. For instance, many students are simply unprepared for the University life as they are under the false notion that university life like that of school will be that of spoon-feeding. This poses serious challenges to student’s navigation of university life. Further, such collaboration will foster more involvement from otherwise inactive students in traditional lecture based classes. For instance, in the wake of pandemic when every possible entity moved to online mode of working; universities and colleges were no different. In these trying times, it became evidently clear how traditional classes on the online medium proved to be a road block in learning. Students especially became inactive in classes because of online obscurity. Therefore, assignments can prove to be a specially boon in such inactive class scenarios. As this will help students become more focussed and take active participation in discussions due to their own experiences with the topics.
Therefore, if implemented correctly the claim can have far more benefits than disadvantages.
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| 2024-01-09 | Tammy__kk | 66 | view |
| 2023-09-15 | Ifthekhar | 79 | view |
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- Leadership 16
- Community 83
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 101, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'humans'' or 'human's'?
Suggestion: humans'; human's
...uoted to be the most important one in a humans life. While it is often redolent of fri...
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Line 1, column 218, Rule ID: COMPRISES_OF[1]
Message: Did you mean 'comprises' or 'consists of'?
Suggestion: comprises; consists of
...e as a university/college student often comprises of classes, modules and assignments. As th...
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Line 1, column 265, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...es of classes, modules and assignments. As the young teenager enters the world of ...
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Line 2, column 254, Rule ID: LIFE_TIME[1]
Message: Did you mean 'lifetime'?
Suggestion: lifetime
...ty and develops friendships that last a life time. Secondly, promulgating collaboration a...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, while, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 33.0505617978 64% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 12.9106741573 170% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2635.0 2235.4752809 118% => OK
No of words: 457.0 442.535393258 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.7658643326 5.05705443957 114% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62358717085 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.28082389482 2.79657885939 117% => OK
Unique words: 257.0 215.323595506 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.562363238512 0.4932671777 114% => OK
syllable_count: 830.7 704.065955056 118% => 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: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.9420146228 60.3974514979 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 97.5925925926 118.986275619 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.9259259259 23.4991977007 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.22222222222 5.21951772744 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.97078651685 60% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.279790954539 0.243740707755 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0738342509529 0.0831039109588 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0486953960498 0.0758088955206 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156472907411 0.150359130593 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0917122333333 0.0667264976115 137% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.31 48.8420337079 78% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.89 12.1639044944 131% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.44 8.38706741573 113% => OK
difficult_words: 145.0 100.480337079 144% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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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.