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 has a wider
range of knowledge, expertise, and skills than any single individual is likely
to possess. Also, because of the number of people involved and the greater
resources they possess, a group can work more quickly in response to the task
assigned to it and can come up with highly creative solutions to problems and
issues. Sometimes these creative solutions come about because a group is
more likely to make risky decisions that an individual might not undertake. This
is because the group spreads responsibility for a decision to all the members
and thus no single individual can be held accountable if the decision turns out
to be wrong.
Taking part in a group process can be very rewarding for members of the
team. Team members who have a voice in making a decision will no doubt feel
better about carrying out the work that is entailed by that decision than they
might doing work that is imposed on them by others. Also, the individual team
member has a much better chance to "shine," to get his or her contributions
and ideas not only recognized but recognized as highly significant, because a
team's overall results can be more far-reaching and have greater impact than
what might have otherwise been possible for the person to accomplish or
contribute working alone.
The reading passage and lecture have a conflicting opinion about whether or not it is a great idea that staff need to work as a team to enhance their productivity. The article strongly postulates that group working will definitely boost the company’s prosperity. On the other hand, the listening adamantly delineates that the experiment which testes the team working has grounded in failure and its results oppose the author’s viewpoints by each one.
First and foremost, according to the author of the excerpt, group work allows solving the problems and issues more quickly for using different approaches because there are a lot of people who have various ideas within a group. Nonetheless, the lecture offsets these points by declaring that if the time comes which the group need to reach resolutions, there may a lot of discussions and arguments. As a result, they can’t easily reach the decision they want. In other cases, a few influencers protest against some creative ideas and ignore some members or convenience others to follow their suggestions.
On top of this, the professor in the listening further asserts that after above unfair events, if the team is drop-down, the blame will put on all members’ shoulders even if some of them didn’t participate with activities. These claims refute the writer’s implications about individuals don’t need to concern about the responsibilities of their decision too much because if they do everything together, they will take all the consequences of it together.
The text lastly points out that working as a team is a chance to deliver their voices in the front of their team members and it may be turned into a great opportunity to stand out among their coworkers for their hard-works and direct contributions. The speaker in the lecture counters these indications by insisting that real contributors can’t benefit and be noticed much from the group work because they are evaluated the same as free-riders.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 66, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...ecture have a conflicting opinion about whether or not it is a great idea that staff need to w...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, lastly, may, nonetheless, so, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 7.30242825607 151% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 22.412803532 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 42.0 30.3222958057 139% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1683.0 1373.03311258 123% => OK
No of words: 321.0 270.72406181 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.24299065421 5.08290768461 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.23278547379 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0099358954 2.5805825403 117% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 145.348785872 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.566978193146 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 512.1 419.366225166 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 29.0 21.2450331126 137% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 56.0410121368 49.2860985944 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 153.0 110.228320801 139% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.1818181818 21.698381199 134% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.90909090909 7.06452816374 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 4.33554083885 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.128897792928 0.272083759551 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0485899633094 0.0996497079465 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.047984025606 0.0662205650399 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0776245253703 0.162205337803 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0297338206015 0.0443174109184 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.8 13.3589403974 133% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.04 53.8541721854 78% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 11.0289183223 132% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.7 12.2367328918 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.6 8.42419426049 114% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 63.6247240618 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 10.7273730684 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 10.498013245 130% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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