GRE Issue Essay 1
Working in groups is an integral part of a university student’s life. So, the question arises, whether to replace a substantial amount of traditional lecture-based instruction in college and university courses with group assignment, with the reasoning that it is vital for students to gain experience collaborating with peers to study a topic and to achieve common goal. I moderately agree and believe that the it would be beneficial to students if some amount of lectures were replaced with group assignment for two reasons.
Firstly, working in a group setting exposes a people to new ideas and new ways to look at the same material, which helps in developing a different outlook and understanding the course content in a new light. For example, Russian scientist and American scientist work together at the ISS (International Space Station) to discover new insights about the universe that we live in and a lot of research has come from this collaboration that might not have been possible if people had been working alone by themselves. Collaborating with peers while studying helps students understand various viewpoints and strengthens their understanding by helping them discover new things in the same material, which a student might have missed if he/she was studying alone.
Also, working in a group teaches students collaborative skills which helps everyone quite a lot in their professional career. For instance, research has shown that world leaders are often people who worked in groups and in collaborative settings their whole life. Learning how to work with a group of people who all might have different outlook towards the same material helps expose students to new ideologies and how people from different background think, it widens a student’s mindset and helps him learn how to work with a diverse set of individuals on a common task.
With that being said, traditional lectures helps students learn material in a much more time saving and efficient way since professors are well experienced in teaching the material. One way in which having professors teach something is more effective than group study is that the professor can instantly help clear doubts of the students and help students learn beyond what is available in the textbooks.
In conclusion, the issue is quite complex and there are no easy answers. Clearly there are benefits of having group study for assignments (giving students different outlook and helping them learn how to work in a collaborative setting) but at the same time traditional lecture based instructions help students learn faster and outside material as well. There is a place for both in a university course and both should be tried out.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, look, so, then, well, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 33.0505617978 67% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 58.6224719101 102% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2300.0 2235.4752809 103% => OK
No of words: 442.0 442.535393258 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2036199095 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58517132086 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87016342511 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 215.323595506 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.497737556561 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 686.7 704.065955056 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 6.24550561798 32% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
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: 31.0 23.0359550562 135% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 82.4391241079 60.3974514979 136% => OK
Chars per sentence: 164.285714286 118.986275619 138% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.5714285714 23.4991977007 134% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.14285714286 5.21951772744 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.404398929772 0.243740707755 166% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.153130247212 0.0831039109588 184% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.12581821415 0.0758088955206 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.213303007 0.150359130593 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.182456759062 0.0667264976115 273% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.8 14.1392134831 133% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.01 48.8420337079 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.1743820225 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.47 12.1639044944 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 100.480337079 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 11.2143820225 128% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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