Some people think that children should learn to compete in the world, but others think the children should be taught to cooperate so as to become more useful to society. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.
Nowadays, the issue of how to bring up children to become useful citizens has grown in importance. As we are living in a competitive world now, some people argue that encouraging a sense of competition in children is more beneficial than teaching them how to cooperate.
These people believe that competition acts as a motivator to enhance children’s performance. Considering rewards for students’ achievements would encourage them to make the effort to defeat other competitors by gaining better results. In this way, the children are more likely to be well-prepared for other competitive aspects of life including university education and employment. For example, in my country, there is a strong competition for university entrance examination, and the candidates with higher ranks not only enjoy studying in prestigious universities, but also are offered by better job opportunities after graduation. Therefore, in order to overcome these challenging issues, it seems advisable for children to learn competition skill.
By contrast, other people opine that being cooperative is more effective than winning individual battles. There are some situations in everybody’s life which involves teamwork and collaboration. Examples can be seen in the workplace, where successful cooperation with colleagues and managers positively impacts on employees’ career prospects. In addition, focusing on achieving their goals independently to win a competition, students are highly likely to have an indifferent outlook toward their classmates. As a result, in the future, these children will probably become adults with unhelpful attitude toward their fellow citizens who are in need.
It is sensible to conclude that both competition and cooperation skills are necessary for children to become useful adults. The reason is that rivalry would motivate students to try hard, and at the same time working in a team would prevent them from overlooking others’ needs.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, so, therefore, well, for example, in addition, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 8.3376753507 216% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1694.0 1615.20841683 105% => OK
No of words: 295.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.74237288136 5.12529762239 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14434120667 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.30410241812 2.80592935109 118% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 176.041082164 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.620338983051 0.561755894193 110% => OK
syllable_count: 542.7 506.74238477 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.8666783268 49.4020404114 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.0 106.682146367 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0714285714 20.7667163134 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.64285714286 7.06120827912 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.200071392614 0.244688304435 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0755321453686 0.084324248473 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0564055519185 0.0667982634062 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127206400156 0.151304729494 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0262738352904 0.056905535591 46% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 13.0946893788 123% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 50.2224549098 66% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 11.3001002004 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.01 12.4159519038 129% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.71 8.58950901804 113% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 78.4519038076 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 9.78957915832 133% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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