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 on projects Use specific reasons and examples to suppo

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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 on projects. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

I disagree with the idea that group projects allow students to learn more effectively than working on projects along. There are three reasons to support my point of view, which I will explore in the following paragraphs.
First, a lot of students cannot focus on their work when working on projects with classmates. Unlike adults, youngsters are distracted easily. From instance, when I was in an elementary school, there was a group project using a dictionary. As we looked up the vocabularies assigned, we happened to see other words on the page such as "vacation" and started talking about our plans on the next vacation and the whole classes could not stop talking about unrelated topics. I remember my teacher got irritated afterwards because none of the group finished them on time, chatting one another. If we had been working on the project individually, we would have finished them before the class ended and learned better.
Second, there are always students who do not participate and get freeride. In a group, there is always at least one or two people get good grades without actually working on it because other members do all the works. When this circumstances continue, the friendships among classmates may collapse. At my high school, I had a group project on presentation about World War II. It required us to do a detailed research, make presentation and present to the class. One of our members did not participate in the project at all while doing research even though we assigned her to do specific part of it. On the presentation day, she just read the script we wrote aloud and we all got the same grade. I believe that this is very unfair and it is not beneficial for both us and her. We were stressed because of her and she did not learn anything from this project. Group project is not productive at all compared with individual work.
Thirdly, we can finish the project faster when working by ourselves. Group project require many discussions to make each decisions. It takes a lot of time and it would be much effective if students spend that discussion time to do more research individually.
In conclusion, I believe that working on projects alone is much more valuable than working with a group. This is because students are distracted very easily and there are people who get freeride in groups. What is more, we can spend time on other learning if the teacher does not assign group project.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 715, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to better', 'to well'
Suggestion: to better; to well
...them before the class ended and learned better. Second, there are always students wh...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, if, look, may, second, so, third, thirdly, while, at least, in conclusion, such as, talking about, what is more

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 43.0788530466 109% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 52.1666666667 100% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2020.0 1977.66487455 102% => OK
No of words: 419.0 407.700716846 103% => OK
Chars per words: 4.82100238663 4.8611393121 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52432199235 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76120346309 2.67179642975 103% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 212.727598566 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.515513126492 0.524837075471 98% => OK
syllable_count: 621.9 618.680645161 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 9.59856630824 146% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6003584229 117% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.2038071155 48.9658058833 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.1666666667 100.406767564 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.4583333333 20.6045352989 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.33333333333 5.45110844103 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.88709677419 225% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.348581978308 0.236089414692 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.105711625165 0.076458572812 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102758491749 0.0737576698707 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.24144692292 0.150856017488 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0723503935835 0.0645574589148 112% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.0 11.7677419355 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 58.1214874552 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 10.1575268817 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.38 10.9000537634 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.46 8.01818996416 93% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 86.8835125448 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => 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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