Imagine that you are in a classroom or a meeting. The teacher or the meeting leader says something incorrect. In your opinion, which of the following is the best thing to do?
--Interrupt and correct the mistake right away
--Wait until the class or meeting is over and the people are gone, and then talk to the teacher or meeting leader
--Say nothing
As the old saying goes, "to err is human", which suggests that we cannot guarantee that everything we say will be completely correct. Here is a situation where the teacher or the leader of the meeting says something incorrect. Some people prefer to stay silently, others prefer to interrupt and correct the mistake right away, but I lean toward the option that we should wait and then talk to the teacher or the leader. My reasons are as follows.
First of all, waiting until the class or meeting is over can give us more time to state our opinions. With the sufficient time, we can illustrate our ideas with more detailed facts so we can make our opinions more convincing. It also helps the teacher or leader to better understand your reasons and thoughts. Whereas if you interrupt immediately, it is not guaranteed that you can correct the teacher's mistake right away. You will also make your statement less appealing in such limited time. Hence, waiting until the class or meeting is over is a better option.
Secondly, interrupting others can be disrespectful and shows poor etiquette. Sometimes when you suddenly interrupt the professor, he or she is likely to forget the point mentioned before. And this is probably the reason why many teachers hate being interrupted during class. The result can be more serious when you think about that all students are paying close attention to the professor and suddenly he or she is interrupted. The sudden interruption can make others more difficult to fully comprehend the point that the teacher is trying to put across.
Last but not least, reminding others can update others' recognition so next time they will not make similar mistakes. My experience can greatly illustrate this point. One time, our history teacher mistakenly said the wrong time of when China was established. I realized that immediately, but I chose to wait until the class is over. Later I told him the right time of Chinese establishment. He praised me after searching the Internet because he had remembered the wrong time from the first time. So my reminding help him correct a mistake without undermining his reputation or dignity.
In conclusion, we should wait until the class over and then correct the teacher's or leader's mistake. In that way we will have enough time and won't ruin his or her fame.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, if, second, secondly, so, then, whereas, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 15.1003584229 119% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 9.8082437276 163% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 13.8261648746 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 51.0 43.0788530466 118% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 52.1666666667 69% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1958.0 1977.66487455 99% => OK
No of words: 396.0 407.700716846 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.94444444444 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46091344257 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64987924523 2.67179642975 99% => OK
Unique words: 208.0 212.727598566 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.525252525253 0.524837075471 100% => OK
syllable_count: 596.7 618.680645161 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6003584229 117% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.00347205 48.9658058833 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 81.5833333333 100.406767564 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.5 20.6045352989 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.875 5.45110844103 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 11.8709677419 59% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 3.85842293907 285% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.282644891396 0.236089414692 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0867654608337 0.076458572812 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0866028591426 0.0737576698707 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162637044603 0.150856017488 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0861975795448 0.0645574589148 134% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.1 11.7677419355 86% => 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: 11.08 10.9000537634 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.58 8.01818996416 95% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 86.8835125448 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => 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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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.