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Nowadays many high schools and universities require students to work on projects in groups, and all members of the group receive the same grade (mark) on the project. Do you agree or disagree that giving every member of a group the same grade is a good way to evaluate students?

Undoubtedly, group activities are significantly important for students, leads them to be more interactive and communicative to others in their future professional and personal life. In this regard, they should be taught the best ways of group working at school. Although some may believe teachers should evaluate groups entirely, and grade all members same, I personally think that it would be an asset for students to be assessed individually as the group members. I will clarify my reasons in the following essay.

To begin with, by assessing the group as an indvidual, teachers may cause some of group members to ignore their duties. To be more especific, when students know that they are not going to be graded seperately, they may not define duty for each member of the group. Thus, there is no balance in the amount of work that each person has to do. This may even cause debates and controversies among students, which surely may reduce the group's efficiency. On the other hand, when every body knows that each group member will be evaluated individually they may divide the work for each person, so that person is responsible for that particular part, and eventually will be graded based on that. As a result, teachers would be better to separately score each student in a group.

In addition, grading each person differently may increase the competition between each member, which brings about a significant efficiency for the group. In fact, students usually try to be the best in a class, and show their availabilities to other students and teachers. So, in a group they will also do their best to get the highest score. Conversely, when every single memeber of the group is dedicated with a same score, students may lose their incentive to compete with others. Consequently, less competitions in the group, less group efficiency.

To sum up, I am totally convinced that teachers and professors should assess their students individuallu and based on their performance in the group, not only because thay may prevent some group members from ignoring their duties but also bacause they may enhance the group efficiency by making a competitive environment.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 432, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'groups'' or 'group's'?
Suggestion: groups'; group's
...g students, which surely may reduce the groups efficiency. On the other hand, when eve...
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Line 6, column 499, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun competitions is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...e to compete with others. Consequently, less competitions in the group, less group e...
^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, conversely, if, may, so, thus, as to, in addition, in fact, as a result, to begin with, to sum up, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 9.8082437276 194% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 43.0788530466 70% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 52.1666666667 84% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1821.0 1977.66487455 92% => OK
No of words: 359.0 407.700716846 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07242339833 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35284910392 4.48103885553 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79265936247 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 212.727598566 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.520891364903 0.524837075471 99% => OK
syllable_count: 555.3 618.680645161 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.94265232975 182% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6003584229 78% => 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: 22.0 20.1344086022 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 70.3641199405 48.9658058833 144% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.8125 100.406767564 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4375 20.6045352989 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.8125 5.45110844103 162% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.28704415433 0.236089414692 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.116118923042 0.076458572812 152% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0589563988236 0.0737576698707 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.206986158851 0.150856017488 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0366972618906 0.0645574589148 57% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 11.7677419355 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 58.1214874552 99% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.10430107527 183% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.1575268817 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 10.9000537634 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.29 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 86.8835125448 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.0537634409 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.

So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:

reasons == advantages or

reasons == disadvantages

for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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