The reading and the lecture are both about the effectiveness of groupthink, which is an assemble of group of people to brainstorm and solves particular problem. The author of the reading mentions about the advantages of groupthink, while the professor casts doubt on the claims made by the author. He thinks that working in group constrains people thought, promote the irrational reassuring and make people irresponsible with their job.
First of all, the author of the reading believes that groupthink will be the combine of many interllectuals from broad field of expertises. Therefore, the final decison made by groups of people is the rational and correct choice. The professor argues this point made by the author. He states that when working in group, people have a tendency to come up with conformed idea, no matter how irrational it might be. As the result, the combinations of variety of conformed ideas will lead to the irrational choice.
Secondly, the reading suggests that groupthink encourages team members and increase the productivity of each person. The proffesor is not in agreement with this notion. He thinks that groupthink make people irresponsible for their thinking and the consequences that made by the team, even if it is a big failure, will not land the blame on any member of the team.
Finally, the lecturer given out failure of Ford mobile company as the example for the reassuring phenomenon created by members of the group. As he explains the human mind that reassure themself when they working in a team, the effect of this way of thinking resulted in wrong choice of plan. The campain of Ford was falied due to the agreement of all members of the team, even though the plan was not good. This contradicts the point made by the author who believes the groupthink is better than individual work.
- INTEGRATED TASK: Summarize the points in the lecture stating how they cast doubts on the reading passage topic points. 3
- TPO-10 - Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Playing computer games is a waste of time. Children should not be allowed to play them.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 66
- TPO-02 - Integrated Writing Task In many organizations, perhaps the best way to approach certain new projects is to assemble a group of people into a team. Having a team of people attack a project offers several advantages. First of all, a group of people 89
- w1 Professors benefit from appearing on TV. 81
- When computers first appeared on the scene,it was thought they would make us more productive in providing goods and services, smarter and possibly happier. Skeptics claim that the opposite is true as computers have proved disappointing in terms of product 73
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 86, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...e effectiveness of groupthink, which is an assemble of group of people to brainstorm and so...
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Line 7, column 32, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...eam. Finally, the lecturer given out failure of Ford mobile company as the ex...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 30.3222958057 155% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalization wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1529.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 308.0 270.72406181 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96428571429 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18926351222 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72749496621 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 145.348785872 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.50974025974 0.540411800872 94% => OK
syllable_count: 450.9 419.366225166 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 3.25607064018 123% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.116997792494 0% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 1.25165562914 399% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 21.2450331126 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.1832698341 49.2860985944 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.933333333 110.228320801 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5333333333 21.698381199 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.8 7.06452816374 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0962004121257 0.272083759551 35% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0336617713419 0.0996497079465 34% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0338915268571 0.0662205650399 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0582553039236 0.162205337803 36% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0279107991052 0.0443174109184 63% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.3589403974 91% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 53.8541721854 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.2367328918 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.01 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.7273730684 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.498013245 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.2008830022 89% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 3.33333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 30
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