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.
tudents are taught in various ways across the world and there are several curricula and method existing in different countries. Among them lecture-based instruction is very common and students are required to do some group task almost in every education system, however the amount is small compared to lecture-based instruction. I firmly agree the significance of group work in a students learning life at the same time I believe that lecture-based instruction is equally important. Therefore, the amount of group assignments or tasks should be increased in proportion to lecture-based instruction.
First of all, lecture based instructions are equipped the students with some theoretical knowledge and to grasp the concept of any subject a student needs to do it practically. Here comes group assignments, in a group a student can implement what he or she have learned in class, at the same time they came to know each other’s view about that concept. Therefore, they are enabling themselves of sharing knowledge which is very essential and one of the main purposes of education. And indeed, this is a feature that a solely lecture-based instruction lacks while teaching the students.
Secondly, when a lecture is given it is not impossible that different student take the interpretation differently. For example, a teacher may imply something negative but a student can take that as positive. This types of misconception can only be removed by group task since every member of the group must come to a common point to accomplish their task. Therefore any vague explanation or any gap in learning can be overcome by group assignments. This type of misconception can hardly be overcome by traditional method since the students are often fear to share their own view with their instructors, especially in the third world countries where education system is full of loopholes and flaws.
Finally, as a group will be consists of different members, it is obvious that the views of the members will be different. As a result of that it is not impossible to come to a point of discord with peers. However, the aim of a group task is to remove this disagreement by analyzing the situation from different perspectives, which in turn would make a student more patient and would help to create harmony. This type of skill is necessary in a world marked by chaos and disorder. Therefore, when a student will go for a job or will start his or her own business, they will have the ability to solve this kind of problems, and it is also an aim of education.
To sum up, it can be assert that considering the significance of group task, it should be increased for the betterment and greater benefit of the students and society as well. However, that does not imply that the lecture-based instruction should be fully replaced, rather group task should be increased in proportion to lecture and the tasks should be based on the class lecture, otherwise it will not be fruitful.
- Some people believe that scientific discoveries have given us a much better understanding of the world around us Others believe that science has revealed to us that the world is infinitely more complex than we ever realized 83
- Do we learn most from the people whose views we share 83
- Political leaders should withhold information from public 2 66
- Weather and local news programs 55
- Originality does not mean thinking something that was never thought before it means putting old ideas together in new ways 54
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Tudents
tudents are taught in various ways across the w...
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Line 2, column 257, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'she' must be used with a third-person verb: 'has'.
Suggestion: has
... a student can implement what he or she have learned in class, at the same time they...
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Line 3, column 356, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
... common point to accomplish their task. Therefore any vague explanation or any gap in lea...
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Line 3, column 480, Rule ID: ADVERB_WORD_ORDER[10]
Message: The adverb 'hardly' is usually put between 'be' and 'overcome'.
Suggestion: be hardly overcome
...gnments. This type of misconception can hardly be overcome by traditional method since the student...
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Line 4, column 122, 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.
...views of the members will be different. As a result of that it is not impossible t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, third, well, while, for example, kind of, as a result, first of all, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 13.1623246493 236% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 7.85571142285 267% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 19.0 10.4138276553 182% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 7.30460921844 205% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 38.0 24.0651302605 158% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 68.0 41.998997996 162% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 8.3376753507 264% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2471.0 1615.20841683 153% => OK
No of words: 498.0 315.596192385 158% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.96184738956 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72397222731 4.20363070211 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98298765525 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 176.041082164 132% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.467871485944 0.561755894193 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 771.3 506.74238477 152% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 5.43587174349 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 16.0721442886 124% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.5928170202 49.4020404114 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.55 106.682146367 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.9 20.7667163134 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.8 7.06120827912 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.01903807615 100% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 3.4128256513 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.255719405968 0.244688304435 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0848519788633 0.084324248473 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0642454873928 0.0667982634062 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.15702415009 0.151304729494 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0601298681901 0.056905535591 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.0946893788 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 50.2224549098 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.4159519038 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.03 8.58950901804 93% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 78.4519038076 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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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.