Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? When teachers assign projects on which students must work together, the students learn much more effectively than when they are asked to work alone. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Teachers have different ways of assigning coursework. While some prefer to allocate projects calling for cooperation and teamwork among students, others tend to favor students working on their own. I agree that students can learn more effectively and efficiently when they have to cooperate with others. There are two main reasons which I will explore in this essay.
To start with, students can improve their work effectiveness by dividing the project into different parts, and each student has to focus on only one part of it. In this way, each student has more time and energy to finish the job, and they can do the job more thoroughly and patiently. Take me as an example. I remember when I was in university, my teacher assigned us a case study as homework. We were in groups of 4. We finished the job like this: first, we had a group discussion, analyzing the case. Student A was in charge of organizing the discussion to keep the ball rolling. Student B was responsible for taking notes and summarizing each student's main points. Students C took responsibility for PPT preparation while I was in charge of the presentation. As a result, we each had a priority, and we each could concentrate on just one aspect of the project. We ended up getting a high score for that assignment. Had I had to finish it by myself, I would probably have given up and ended up complaining about such a tough job that had cost me much time and energy.
Secondly, every student can be promoted to or forced to work effectively. As is known to all, everyone has inertia. If working independently, many students may be sluggish and laid back. This phenomenon is human nature. However, if working in a team, students who fall behind the schedule may feel embarrassed and be motivated to catch up with others. As in the case mentioned above, when a group member fell sick during the case study, other group members offered to help her voluntarily. She refused, however. She insisted on finishing her part so that she could sleep well because she had done her share of work conscientiously. This case is a good illustration of the encouraging nature of collective work.
That said, some students have the mentality of taking a free ride. Nevertheless, such cases are few and far between. In addition, even though they can succeed in taking a free ride for the first time, they can hardly do it a second time because they are likely to be kicked out by other members, and it would be hard for them to find partners next time.
To conclude, students can study more effectively in groups than individually because of labor division between members and the propulsion nature of teamwork.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, well, while, as to, in addition, as a result, to start with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 9.8082437276 143% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 43.0788530466 109% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 52.1666666667 121% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2212.0 1977.66487455 112% => OK
No of words: 465.0 407.700716846 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.75698924731 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64369019777 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77516362134 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 251.0 212.727598566 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.539784946237 0.524837075471 103% => OK
syllable_count: 692.1 618.680645161 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 9.59856630824 156% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.51792114695 227% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.6003584229 141% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.1097680939 48.9658058833 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 76.275862069 100.406767564 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.0344827586 20.6045352989 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.13793103448 5.45110844103 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.88709677419 246% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.254953080769 0.236089414692 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0647332626016 0.076458572812 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0654181077039 0.0737576698707 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148804052848 0.150856017488 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0717828432492 0.0645574589148 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.0 11.7677419355 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 58.1214874552 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 10.1575268817 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.03 10.9000537634 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.86 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 86.8835125448 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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