It is universally acknowledged that reading, which cultivate one's knowledge and broaden one's horizon, is of great importance in education. However, there is no consensus on whether students should choose their own books to read or should teachers assign students to read. In my opinion, I think the reading that students do by their own personality is of greater importance, and I would elucidate this from a pedagogy perspective.
To commence with, allowing students to read on their own could invoke their interest towards a specific area, and they would thus continue exploring. Teachers' reading assignments are often confined to certain specific areas as they may not know all the other areas. For instance, a literature teacher may not know much about science and therefore could not suggest scientific books to students. Therefore, having a teacher to assign books to students may limit students' horizon. Instead, allowing students to read freely would help them to explore different categories and thus find their own interests.
Moreover, forcing students to read certain books may cause an adverse effect that they may eventually develop an abhorrence sense towards reading. From a psychological perspective, if one was compelled to do some thing, he or she would most likely develop hatred to it. For instance, one of my classmates in high school was interested in living creatures but not physics. To cultivate his interest in physics, the teacher assign him a lot of books about it. Although these books may be quite interesting from others' perspective, he found these books boring that he became more aversed to physics.
Judging from the above evidence, we could safely arrive the conclusion that students do reading by their own personality is of greater importance because it invokes students' interest. Assigning students to read, however, has an adverse effect on students.
- It is more important to read and watch news presented by people whose opinion is different from your own view than by people whose opinion are similar to yours 66
- TPO 11
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It is more important for students to understand ideas and concepts than it is for them to learn facts Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer 60
- TPO 54 The Salton Sea in California is actually a salty inland lake The level of salt in the lake s water what scientists call its salinity has been increasing steadily for years because the lake s water is evaporating faster than it is being replaced by 75
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 62, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...nowledged that reading, which cultivate ones knowledge and broaden ones horizon, is ...
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Line 1, column 89, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...ch cultivate ones knowledge and broaden ones horizon, is of great importance in educ...
^^^^
Line 3, column 209, Rule ID: ANY_BODY[2]
Message: Did you mean 'something'?
Suggestion: something
...perspective, if one was compelled to do some thing, he or she would most likely develop ha...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, moreover, so, therefore, thus, for instance, i think, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 15.1003584229 60% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 9.8082437276 153% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 13.8261648746 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 33.0 43.0788530466 77% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 52.1666666667 75% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.0752688172 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1595.0 1977.66487455 81% => OK
No of words: 302.0 407.700716846 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.28145695364 4.8611393121 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1687104957 4.48103885553 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80275079936 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 212.727598566 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.546357615894 0.524837075471 104% => OK
syllable_count: 489.6 618.680645161 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.6003584229 73% => 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 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.2517046037 48.9658058833 60% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 106.333333333 100.406767564 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1333333333 20.6045352989 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.45110844103 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.340023747069 0.236089414692 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.123154526314 0.076458572812 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0924388973579 0.0737576698707 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.248087453309 0.150856017488 164% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.108822440028 0.0645574589148 169% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 11.7677419355 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 10.9000537634 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.71 8.01818996416 109% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 86.8835125448 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.247311828 137% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 62, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...nowledged that reading, which cultivate ones knowledge and broaden ones horizon, is ...
^^^^
Line 1, column 89, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...ch cultivate ones knowledge and broaden ones horizon, is of great importance in educ...
^^^^
Line 3, column 209, Rule ID: ANY_BODY[2]
Message: Did you mean 'something'?
Suggestion: something
...perspective, if one was compelled to do some thing, he or she would most likely develop ha...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, moreover, so, therefore, thus, for instance, i think, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 15.1003584229 60% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 9.8082437276 153% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 13.8261648746 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 33.0 43.0788530466 77% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 52.1666666667 75% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.0752688172 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1595.0 1977.66487455 81% => OK
No of words: 302.0 407.700716846 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.28145695364 4.8611393121 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1687104957 4.48103885553 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80275079936 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 212.727598566 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.546357615894 0.524837075471 104% => OK
syllable_count: 489.6 618.680645161 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.6003584229 73% => 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 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.2517046037 48.9658058833 60% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 106.333333333 100.406767564 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1333333333 20.6045352989 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.45110844103 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.340023747069 0.236089414692 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.123154526314 0.076458572812 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0924388973579 0.0737576698707 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.248087453309 0.150856017488 164% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.108822440028 0.0645574589148 169% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 11.7677419355 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 10.9000537634 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.71 8.01818996416 109% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 86.8835125448 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.247311828 137% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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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.