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.
While it is crucial to accumulate teamwork experience to prepare students for the future workforce, it would not evaluate student's performance fairly based entirely on group assignments. A balance sets of group work and conventional lecture with individual assignments enable student to develop relevant skills for their future careers.
It is common to have unbalanced distribution of work in a particular group where some people do most of the work and some barely contribute anything. In this case, it is unfair to give all the students in the group the same marks. If a student continues to not participate in the communal effort but still receive the final marks since he/she was in a better group, he/she will graduate with a GPA that does not reflect his/her real performance. This scenario would stimulate the a wave of dependency attitude towards group assignments in which more and more students tend to leave the major work for others and enjoy the final results without bearing any sweats.
Secondly, lecture-based instruction is essential to provide fundamental information which can be applied and developed further in group work. Without a sound foundation of knowledge, students would be more likely to give false suggestion and uneducated guesses. A mixture of lecture and group work set the students for success with sufficient source of tools and information.
Thirdly, stressing on collaboration is essential but there are also other vital skills that students must equip themselves with in college such as rational thinking, information retrieval and individual working abilities. In the real workplace, while there are some cases requiring teamwork and collaboration, majority of the time, people need to solve tasks on their own and make decisions based on provided information by themselves. Hence preparing students for success would mean offering them as many different scenarios as possible which simulates the real work experience to gain relevant skillset.
Teamwork are increasingly important in a connected world where people are required to brainstorm and provide solutions together across technical teams and departments. However, if universities only offer students group assignments and omit the conventional instruction format of lecturing, it would lead to detrimental consequences like unethical behaviors or imbalance set of skills.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'a' is left.
Suggestion: the; a
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Message: Use simply 'there are other' or 'there are also'
Suggestion: there are other; there are also
...ssing on collaboration is essential but there are also other vital skills that students must equip t...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
... on provided information by themselves. Hence preparing students for success would me...
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Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
...for success would mean offering them as many different scenarios as possible which simulates t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, still, third, thirdly, while, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 33.0505617978 61% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 58.6224719101 82% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2020.0 2235.4752809 90% => OK
No of words: 364.0 442.535393258 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.54945054945 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36792674256 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99953705722 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 215.323595506 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.568681318681 0.4932671777 115% => OK
syllable_count: 627.3 704.065955056 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 20.2370786517 69% => 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: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.5903939989 60.3974514979 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 144.285714286 118.986275619 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0 23.4991977007 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.42857142857 5.21951772744 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.340235923436 0.243740707755 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.119160593966 0.0831039109588 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0647721269617 0.0758088955206 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.192783657445 0.150359130593 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0508487288451 0.0667264976115 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.7 14.1392134831 125% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 48.8420337079 75% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.21 12.1639044944 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.57 8.38706741573 114% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 100.480337079 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 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.