which is better, group or personal problem solving?
The reading passage and the lecture are both about group problem solving technique. The passage hold the view that this technique is better than personal problem solving. The speaker challenges this point. He believes that solving problems in groups of people has a lot of disadvantages.
First of all, the author contends that teams tend to do better in problem solving because of the greater resources. There are multiple knowledge sources, more expertise elements, and a lot of skills in comparison with one person solving a problem. The lecturer casts doubt on this claim. He thinks that only a few number of team members do all the work, while others don’t contribute at all. The problem is that team gets positive or negative feedbacks as a whole not for individual members themselves.
Secondly, the author thinks that a team working environment is more rewarding. It is mentioned in the passage that members are more willing to work on ideas developed by them rather than working on someone else idea. The lecturer refutes this argument. He points out that some ideas developed by teams are prone to other factors. For instance, influential members of the team might persuade the team of their creative ideas which most of the team agrees to, given the warning of some of the members of the negative impact of these ideas.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 97, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'holds'.
Suggestion: holds
... problem solving technique. The passage hold the view that this technique is better ...
^^^^
Line 1, column 172, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...s better than personal problem solving. The speaker challenges this point. He belie...
^^^
Line 3, column 311, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun number seems to be countable; consider using: 'few numbers'.
Suggestion: few numbers
...bt on this claim. He thinks that only a few number of team members do all the work, while ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 480, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...he team agrees to, given the warning of some of the members of the negative impact of these...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, second, secondly, so, while, for instance, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 5.04856512141 20% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => 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: 1119.0 1373.03311258 81% => OK
No of words: 225.0 270.72406181 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.97333333333 5.08290768461 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.87298334621 4.04702891845 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54284374687 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 129.0 145.348785872 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.573333333333 0.540411800872 106% => OK
syllable_count: 340.2 419.366225166 81% => 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
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 21.2450331126 75% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.6565121974 49.2860985944 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 79.9285714286 110.228320801 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.0714285714 21.698381199 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.78571428571 7.06452816374 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 4.0 4.19205298013 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.271047726605 0.272083759551 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.093042787067 0.0996497079465 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.112094039257 0.0662205650399 169% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.209535879717 0.162205337803 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.157569785266 0.0443174109184 356% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.0 13.3589403974 75% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 53.8541721854 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.0289183223 76% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.25 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.01 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 51.0 63.6247240618 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 5.5 10.7273730684 51% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.498013245 80% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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