Claim: Group assignments that students must work together to complete should replace a substantial amount of traditional lecture-based instruction in college and university courses.
Reason: It is vital for students to gain experience collaborating with peers to study a topic and to achieve a common goal.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
Despite the constant fluctuation within the education system, the professionals in education all hold a common goal: maximizing students' knowledge and helping them to reach to their full potentials. There is a general trend, at least in the United States universities, that letting students work in more group assignments with peers can generate more learning potentials. This ideology has also become increasingly promising in other developing countries, and is on its way to become ubiquitous in the entire college education system. The prompt above corroborates this idea and argue that students are vital to gain experience collaborating with peers to study a topic and to achieve a common goal. In my option, despite the increasing global recognition of this trend, I believe groups assignments should not replace a significant amount of traditional lecture-based courses in universities for three reasons.
To begin, traditional courses in universities are mostly taught with professors who possess a degree in secondary education, who are more qualified as an instructors than the students who work with each other for a group project. Thus, it is reasonable to argue that students can benefit more from knowledge disseminated by professors than their peers. Additionally, a traditional lecture offers more organization, which contributes to easier learning experiences. For instances, in a traditional lecture-based course, a knowledgeable professor needs to thoroughly prepares for the class agenda, plan out each quizzes and assignments, and provide sufficient feedback on students' performance. By participating in multiple lectures in this matter, students can expose themselves to a variety of topic in great depth by erudite professionals, which naturally enriches the learning experiences. On the other hand, if students often work only with other students, even though there are more direct communications, they are simply interacting with people who possess similar knowledge, which does not foster enough critical thinking and in-depth analysis of the topic. The above example illustrates that group assignments do not compose the high-end quality traditional lectures possess, and therefore, they shouldn't be replacing a substantial amount of lecture-based courses in college.
Furthermore, even if we assume that working as groups will generate sufficient knowledge about a topic, this style of learning shouldn't be the majority in colleges because team-working skills are not as vital as other skills that could be acquired in college. Most job employers are seeking applicants with specific knowledge that would benefit directly to their task. For instance, if one wishes to apply to a company that invest heavily in designing AI, applicants who demonstrates a above average coding skills and knowledge are always preferred as they can directly contribute to the company. If one wishes to apply to a doctorate program in psychology, in-depth understanding of the current literature is always the highlight in their personal statements and what advisors are looking for. Thus, although team working abilities are a virtue that employers prefer, they are no match compared other hard skills one can acquire in college through traditional lecture-based instruction.
Of course, some argue that participating in more group projects engender more ecological value. Since most jobs requires interacting with others on a day to day basis, shouldn't students focus more on this aspect in college to build a great foundation? In my opinion, while knowing how to collaborating with peers to work on common topics make one a better team player, college should ideally be the place where students acquire knowledge and work on internal development. Once people are working in the field, there will be less opportunities learn from professional instructors, let alone interacting with them on a daily basis. It is only reasonable to take full advantages to learn from the best during precise time during college!
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 152, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'an instructor' or simply 'instructors'?
Suggestion: an instructor; instructors
...ry education, who are more qualified as an instructors than the students who work with each ot...
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Line 3, column 671, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...nts, and provide sufficient feedback on students performance. By participating in multip...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: shouldn't
...l lectures possess, and therefore, they shouldnt be replacing a substantial amount of le...
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Suggestion: shouldn't
...e about a topic, this style of learning shouldnt be the majority in colleges because tea...
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Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...signing AI, applicants who demonstrates a above average coding skills and knowled...
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Suggestion: shouldn't
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Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun opportunities is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...are working in the field, there will be less opportunities learn from professional i...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, look, second, so, therefore, thus, while, at least, for instance, of course, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 94.0 58.6224719101 160% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3417.0 2235.4752809 153% => OK
No of words: 614.0 442.535393258 139% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.5651465798 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.977853291 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.11097642296 2.79657885939 111% => OK
Unique words: 306.0 215.323595506 142% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.498371335505 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 1069.2 704.065955056 152% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 12.0 4.38483146067 274% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.6841469969 60.3974514979 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 155.318181818 118.986275619 131% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.9090909091 23.4991977007 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.22727272727 5.21951772744 119% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.2758426966 165% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.354746749292 0.243740707755 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0996755675299 0.0831039109588 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.073432123201 0.0758088955206 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.216739694372 0.150359130593 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0827097009215 0.0667264976115 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.8 14.1392134831 133% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.61 48.8420337079 73% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.1743820225 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.32 12.1639044944 126% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.37 8.38706741573 112% => OK
difficult_words: 171.0 100.480337079 170% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 11.8971910112 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.7820224719 136% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 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: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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