Some students prefer classes with open discussions between the professor and students and almost no lectures. Other students prefer classes with lectures and almost no discussions. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Student and teachers are the primal component of every educational institution. The debate on whether or not discussions between them has an impact on the learning ambiance is a very controversial one. Some argue that classroom discussion fosters a positive learning environment, while others disagree. Nowadays, many are adamant that a myriad of elements should be considered in order to examine the positive and negative facets of this issue. From my vantage point, I prefer lectures with no discussions and will be expounding on my stance in the subsequent paragraphs.
The first exquisite point to be mentioned is that discussions may be a diversion from the usual course track. Every professor has a certain class plan which h/she needs to execute in order to finish the course load in time. However, discussions may cause awry to that plan and be a distraction for everyone. A vivid example which can be given to shed light on this subject is one of my own experience. The sociology lectures of my college primarily consisted of discussions in the class. Although this may have been a wise choice for a social science class, our professor was never able to finish lectures on time. The main reason behind this was the discussions usually moved beyond the course topic and were not relevant to the study. As a result, this had a huge impact on our grade and performance.
Secondly, another reason which deserves some words to say is that reserved,shy students never benefit from class discussions. It'll not be an exaggeration to say that class powwow are usually dominated by the more forthcoming students. Eventually, they become the one who get most of the outputs from these lectures and this is not fair to other students. On the other hand, a lecture where the professor has sole control never discriminates among the students. This lectures are on track, they are repleted with the subject contents and every student who puts in his/her concentration can easily benefit from them.
Lastly, although the aforementioned points were the first one which cross the mind at first glance, they are by no means the only reason available. In fact there is another subtle point which must be borne in mind. Lectures having no discussions does not means that students do not have the liberty of clearing their doubts and talking their professors. Every professors allocate either some time at the end of lectures or some time in their office hours to answer the queries of the students. For instance, my ecology professors does not tolerate any kind of discussions during his lectures. He does not like anybody interrupting the general flow of his lectures. This is a very good rule since sometimes distractions may inadvertently lead to missing out of some important topics. However, at the end of every lecture he allocates ten minutes in order to solve our dilemmas. All of this is a very good arrangement for both us and our professor.
To wrap it up, contemplating all foresaid reasons, one can soon realize how lectures forbidding discussions have a better impact on the class environment and overall student performance.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'mean'
Suggestion: mean
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Message: 'Each' and 'every' are used with singular. Did you mean 'all'?
Suggestion: All
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, while, for instance, in fact, kind of, as a result, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 15.1003584229 179% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 9.8082437276 102% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 13.8261648746 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.0286738351 136% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 43.0788530466 102% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 52.1666666667 132% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.0752688172 161% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2634.0 1977.66487455 133% => OK
No of words: 523.0 407.700716846 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03632887189 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78217453174 4.48103885553 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81814159742 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 263.0 212.727598566 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.502868068834 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 829.8 618.680645161 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.6003584229 136% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 28.6723218595 48.9658058833 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 94.0714285714 100.406767564 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6785714286 20.6045352989 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.28571428571 5.45110844103 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 3.85842293907 259% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.88709677419 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.265508203145 0.236089414692 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0643392844002 0.076458572812 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0481132088524 0.0737576698707 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.146634435198 0.150856017488 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0333821223725 0.0645574589148 52% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 11.7677419355 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 58.1214874552 92% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 10.9000537634 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.01818996416 99% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 86.8835125448 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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