Some people believe that school children should not be given homework by their teachers, whereas others argue that homework plays an important role in the education of children. Discuss both of these views and give your own opinion.

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Some people believe that school children should not be given homework by their teachers, whereas others argue that homework plays an important role in the education of children. Discuss both of these views and give your own opinion.

People’s opinions differ as to whether or not school children should be given

homework. While there are some strong arguments against the setting of

homework, I still believe that it is a necessary aspect of education.

There are several reasons why people might argue that homework is an

unnecessary burden on children. Firstly, there is evidence to support the idea

that homework does nothing to improve educational outcomes. Countries such

as Finland, where school children are not given homework, regularly top

international educational league tables and outperform nations where setting

homework is the norm. Secondly, many parents would agree that the school day

is already long enough, and leaves their children too tired to do further study

when they return home. Finally, it is recognised that play time is just as

beneficial as study time from the perspective of brain development.

In spite of the above arguments, I support the view that homework has an

important role to play in the schooling of children. The main benefit of

homework is that it encourages independent learning and problem solving, as

children are challenged to work through tasks alone and at their own pace. In

doing so, students must apply the knowledge that they have learnt in the

classroom. For example, by doing mathematics exercises at home, students

consolidate their understanding of the concepts taught by their teacher at

school. In my view, it is important for children to develop an independent study

habit because this prepares them to work alone as adults.

In conclusion, homework certainly has its drawbacks, but I believe that the

benefits outweigh them in the long term.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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...its drawbacks, but I believe that the benefits outweigh them in the long term.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, still, while, as to, for example, in conclusion, in my view, in spite of

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 41.998997996 74% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1469.0 1615.20841683 91% => OK
No of words: 270.0 315.596192385 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.44074074074 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05360046442 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80250965327 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 176.041082164 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.596296296296 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 431.1 506.74238477 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.5388621768 49.4020404114 60% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 113.0 106.682146367 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7692307692 20.7667163134 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.84615384615 7.06120827912 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 23.0 4.38176352705 525% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 16.0 5.01903807615 319% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.426008781406 0.244688304435 174% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.143945875255 0.084324248473 171% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.110227564603 0.0667982634062 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.104165886099 0.151304729494 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0861714003146 0.056905535591 151% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 50.2224549098 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.27 12.4159519038 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.58950901804 97% => OK
difficult_words: 64.0 78.4519038076 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.

Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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