Is daily homework necessary for students?
Tracing back to my school years, teachers used to give us a heavy load of homework. In fact, the tradition of doing assignment after school is still adopted in all schools today. Just as Confucius once said, "To learn with constant perseverance and practice what you have learned is a pleasure." The process of doing homework is a perfect conduction of this notion. However, pressure caused by too much homework might bring about negative consequences. In my view, assigning homework every day is necessary, but its amount should not be excessive.
Primarily, homework helps the students to review what has been learned and prepare for the new. Needless to say, a period of time is needed to carefully digest the accumulated knowledge. Doing homework is an effective way to assimilate knowledge. Through having a suitable amount of exercises and memorizing tasks, further comprehension is obtained. Afterwards, a brief preview familiarizes the students with the new knowledge, thus making it easier for them to understand what will be taught the next day. According to a report from a major education website, over 90% of high school teachers assign homework every day. Many of them agree that students who can actively complete their homework are more able to make progress in their studies.
Furthermore, doing homework helps parents to cooperate with teachers. The signature of a parent is usually required to indicate that he or she is also involved in the education process. From a certain angle, parents are regarded as good teachers at home. By taking advantage of the chance to go through their children's homework, parents could have detailed discussions with their children about their studies. They are also in the position to supervise their children in case difficulties arise and instruct them in ways to solve these problems. Evidence of this can be found in many Chinese families nowadays.
However, too much homework every day takes up the students' leisure time. They deserve more time for relaxing and for hobbies and other beneficial activities. Education should not be confined to what has been taught at school. If they are deprived of the freedom to do anything they like, their enthusiasm in learning might fade considerably. In addition, the amount of homework should be reduced. Excessive homework can only lead to rebel psychology on the part of the students. The balance between work and play is of paramount importance for the comprehensive development of an individual. Just as an old saying describes, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." In recent years, the policy of "reducing the students' load" was implemented by the Chinese government, with the purpose of freeing children from excessive pressure from school.
Consequently, ensuring the smooth development of education in modern society, homework needs to be assigned to the students after class. Based on all the reasons listed above, I reiterate my standpoint that doing homework is a tradition that should be carried out, but it is not supposed to be a heavy daily burden on the students.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 116, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...prepare for the new. Needless to say, a period of time is needed to carefully digest the accum...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, furthermore, however, if, so, still, thus, in addition, in fact, in my view
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 15.1003584229 179% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.0286738351 45% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 32.0 43.0788530466 74% => OK
Preposition: 82.0 52.1666666667 157% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 8.0752688172 211% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2626.0 1977.66487455 133% => OK
No of words: 505.0 407.700716846 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2 4.8611393121 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74048574033 4.48103885553 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86921468396 2.67179642975 107% => OK
Unique words: 271.0 212.727598566 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.536633663366 0.524837075471 102% => OK
syllable_count: 810.0 618.680645161 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 9.59856630824 42% => OK
Article: 8.0 3.08781362007 259% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 11.0 4.94265232975 223% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.6003584229 136% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.4952527658 48.9658058833 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.7857142857 100.406767564 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0357142857 20.6045352989 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.57142857143 5.45110844103 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.88709677419 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.254402879979 0.236089414692 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0675759136116 0.076458572812 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0627285910794 0.0737576698707 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145338375467 0.150856017488 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0643390307891 0.0645574589148 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 11.7677419355 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 58.1214874552 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.58 10.9000537634 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.66 8.01818996416 108% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 86.8835125448 152% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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