Some people think that a sense of competition in children should be encouraged. Others believe that children who are taught to cooperate rather than compete become more useful adults.Discuss both these views and give your own opinions.

It is often argued that competitive learning is better and should be encouraged in children instead of co-operative learning. These two schools of thought have both their advantages and disadvantages which will be discussed in this essay.

A competitive mindset in children instills in them an attitude to do their best and to go an extra mile to win. Where competition is exhorted, the kids learn to independently research, study and achieve good grades. Thus, they attain their individual goals. However, competition should be encouraged in a positive environment where proper values are taught whether in winning or losing. Otherwise, competition may foster selfishness and pride on those who win and depression, tantrums and discouragement in those who fail. If not monitored closely, children end up despising the games and lessons they are supposed to enjoy because of fear of failure.

On the other hand, co-operation in students encourages teamwork and communication among each other. The weaker children are helped by the more capable ones to achieve a common goal, which is to pass or win. Unfortunately, this leads to frustration on some students who may feel that they have obtained an undeserving mark because of the amount of work that have put in, due to others in the team who did not contribute much. Also, it encourages laziness and a sense of dependency on some students who know that others will do all the work.

All points considered, I think that competition should be encouraged in a positive environment so that children learn to adapt to all situations in this ever growing competitive world. Though cooperation ensures that every child moves at the same pace, it puts a strain on other children. Therefore, I think it should be discouraged.

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Average: 7.8 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 453, Rule ID: WHO_NOUN[1]
Message: A noun should not follow "who". Try changing to a verb or maybe to 'who is a win'.
Suggestion: who is a win
...y foster selfishness and pride on those who win and depression, tantrums and discourage...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, so, still, therefore, thus, i think, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 7.30460921844 219% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1487.0 1615.20841683 92% => OK
No of words: 290.0 315.596192385 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1275862069 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.12666770723 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99473378449 2.80592935109 107% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 176.041082164 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.579310344828 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 462.6 506.74238477 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.76152304609 21% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.5278993394 49.4020404114 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.1333333333 106.682146367 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3333333333 20.7667163134 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.53333333333 7.06120827912 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.268720804804 0.244688304435 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0855284431186 0.084324248473 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0417845698808 0.0667982634062 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.164664731815 0.151304729494 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0336523891137 0.056905535591 59% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.0946893788 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.4159519038 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.58950901804 98% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 78.4519038076 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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