Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?
When teachers assign projects on which students must work together, the students learn much more
effectively than when they are asked to work alone on projects.
No one can deny that there are positive and negative aspects of group work. If I were forced to choose, I would definitely agree that students can learn more effectively when they are asked to work together with other students. It is my firm believe that students can be benefitted more from group projects for a number of reasons, and I will explore my ideas in the following paragraphs.
First of all, students can hone the communication skill during group work. Students have to discuss how to split the work and how to integrate their work during the process of collaborations. Therefore, they can sharpen their interpersonal abilities which are very valuable as students can not gain the soft skill from the lectures. Drawing from my personal experience, I was assigned to work a group project with other three students. We had to discuss very frequently to present our group work. During the process, I was not fear to express my ideas in front of people and learned to accept different views. My interpersonal skills have been sharpened because of the group work. For this reason, I believe that students can learn more from group projects.
Secondly, students can brainstorm with other students during group work. If students work alone on projects, they do not have the chance to exchange ideas with others. I believe collecting different kind of views can create the best solution. Moreover, working in group can decrease the risk of making mistake. For example, I had a computer science project last semester. The professor offers the flexibility to work alone or work with others. At the first, I thought work by myself was a better idea so I chose to work alone. However, I was stuck in the middle of process and could not figure out the next step. Therefore, I tried to find a partner and worked together to share our thoughts. My partner even noticed a mistake in my project. In the end, we successfully completed the project and got a high score. If I had not worked with a teammate, I could not succeed in that case. As a result, I maintain students working together is better than work alone.
Although some people argue there will be free rider when students work together, the professors have started to ask students to do peer evaluation for their group work. By this way, all students will put efforts and ease the situation of free riders. Therefore, the disadvantage of working together can be eliminated.
In light of reasons above, I strongly believe students can learn more effectively when they work together.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, for example, kind of, as a result, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 9.8082437276 184% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 13.8261648746 65% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 43.0788530466 100% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 52.1666666667 119% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2114.0 1977.66487455 107% => OK
No of words: 436.0 407.700716846 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.84862385321 4.8611393121 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56953094068 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64426763662 2.67179642975 99% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 212.727598566 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.467889908257 0.524837075471 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 640.8 618.680645161 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 19.0 9.59856630824 198% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.6003584229 136% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.1344086022 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.8851559352 48.9658058833 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 75.5 100.406767564 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.5714285714 20.6045352989 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.92857142857 5.45110844103 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 11.8709677419 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.409971028428 0.236089414692 174% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.124161307692 0.076458572812 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0909552158408 0.0737576698707 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.273578245361 0.150856017488 181% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0460522490101 0.0645574589148 71% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.2 11.7677419355 78% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 58.1214874552 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 10.1575268817 79% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.55 10.9000537634 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.28 8.01818996416 91% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 86.8835125448 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.0537634409 80% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.