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? 1. Interrupt and correct the mistake right away; 2. Wait until the class or meeting is over and the people are gone, and then talk to the teacher or meeting leader; 3. Say nothing.
It is common that a lecturer make a mistake in some classes and the students may react differently in this situation. Some people choose to interrupt and correct the mistake right away, for they believe the truth would benefit not only the speaker but also the other students. Another group of people may say nothing because they don't want to interrupt. Be that as it may, I contend that talking to the speaker until the speech is over is a better option.
First of all, talking to the lecturer after a lecture avoids embarrassment. Being challenged by listeners is tough for the speaker especially for some inexperienced ones. A mistake may not be so important but would make the speaker upset and affect his lecture. Last semester, our professor asked everyone in the class to make a presentation. Even if I prepared and practiced many times before the speech, I still felt nervous. Along these, it really would make some speakers feel embarrassed.
What is more, pointing the mistake until the lecture is over does not interfere other participants and won't affect the schedule. We all agree that prolonging the meeting or class is a nightmare and it may ruin the participants' schedule. I just had such an experience during an academic report last week. In the middle of a speech, a student pointed out a mistake in the lecturer's slide. The professor had to explain it and it took more than ten minutes until the class was over. However, some students, including me, had to go for the next class. Hence it is unfair for people who do not care about that mistake.
Last but not least is that putting forward questions after the class enables both sides to have enough time to discuss. Take me as an illustration, I always choose to wait until the lecture is over and then discuss with the professor about my questions and the mistakes during a lecture. I found they are all very glad to answer and we could talk about the topic deeply and freely.
To conclude, I strongly recommend people to point out the mistake after the class is over, so everybody would feel relaxed and the students could get rid of the boring discussion.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 331, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
... of people may say nothing because they dont want to interrupt. Be that as it may, I...
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Line 5, column 548, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...uding me, had to go for the next class. Hence it is unfair for people who do not care...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, however, if, may, really, so, still, then, first of all, what is more
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.0286738351 63% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 32.0 43.0788530466 74% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 52.1666666667 86% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1768.0 1977.66487455 89% => OK
No of words: 375.0 407.700716846 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.71466666667 4.8611393121 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40055868397 4.48103885553 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55046836657 2.67179642975 95% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 212.727598566 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.530666666667 0.524837075471 101% => OK
syllable_count: 549.9 618.680645161 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.8917691942 48.9658058833 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.1904761905 100.406767564 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8571428571 20.6045352989 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.47619047619 5.45110844103 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 11.8709677419 42% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 3.85842293907 285% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.129259346744 0.236089414692 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0372387207147 0.076458572812 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0324888662419 0.0737576698707 44% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0710683540419 0.150856017488 47% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0400313013199 0.0645574589148 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.7 11.7677419355 82% => 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: 9.74 10.9000537634 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.47 8.01818996416 93% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 86.8835125448 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => 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: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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