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 ans

As the world developed, the importance of education increased. Thus, the debate for teaching method is ongoing. Some people believe that teachers should encourage students to express their opinions, while others think that they should focus on lecturing. It is admitted that both methods have drawbacks, but it is clear that the second one will be more effective.

To begin with, this allows teachers to include more content in a limited period. This is because teachers can continue to talk without interruption from others. Since they do not need to stop, they will have a full class to introduce new concepts and theories. In contrast, teachers that allow students to ask questions frequently will always need to stop at certain time , so they are not able to explain as much as they want, or they plan to according to the time they have. For instance, in a history class, if a professor is introducing the timeline of the Cold War, there will be many things to talk. In a lecture that no students ask questions, the teacher can explain the content fluently, whereas if there are some students that want to express their opinions, the time that the professor can speak will be limited. Therefore, considering that more content can be explained in a certain amount of time, focusing only on teaching will be effective.

Furthermore, allowing students to express their viewpoints may distract the attention of the teacher, so they may not stick to the content of the class and waste time on other topics that may not be useful to their grades. Just imagine how a teacher will response to students when their express their opinions. It is common that they will use evidence to prove or disagree with it. In this case, many students may continue to argue about it because they do not fully understand. In the process of explaining the points, the teachers may need to talk about other concepts to persuade them, and thus, it will lead to a different topic that is not quite related to the class. After that, the teacher may forget what they’ve talked about before it, which may lead to confusion. This shows that time may be wasted when students are involved in the discussion.

Lastly, students can exchange their opinions with friends and teachers after class. Doing this will not use time in the lecture and students will have enough time for discussion. For example, they can talk about a decision of a German leader and judge if it is effective. They may then tell the teacher about the conclusion and ask for some advice. In this way, they have a chance to exchange ideas while not interrupting the class.

To conclude, although some students may find it difficult when the teacher is talking about a point that they do not understand, considering that more content can be included and students are able to express opinions as well as the fact that teachers may be distracted by the questions, focusing on lecturing have more advantages than drawbacks.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, if, lastly, may, second, so, then, therefore, thus, well, whereas, while, for example, for instance, in contrast, talking about, as well as, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 15.1003584229 146% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 34.0 9.8082437276 347% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.0286738351 190% => OK
Pronoun: 55.0 43.0788530466 128% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 67.0 52.1666666667 128% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2471.0 1977.66487455 125% => OK
No of words: 509.0 407.700716846 125% => OK
Chars per words: 4.85461689587 4.8611393121 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74984508646 4.48103885553 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54334889591 2.67179642975 95% => OK
Unique words: 219.0 212.727598566 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.43025540275 0.524837075471 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 738.0 618.680645161 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 12.0 4.94265232975 243% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6003584229 117% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.7266641853 48.9658058833 138% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.958333333 100.406767564 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2083333333 20.6045352989 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.16666666667 5.45110844103 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.85842293907 233% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.155956056046 0.236089414692 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0563805896995 0.076458572812 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.048978750888 0.0737576698707 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105123180471 0.150856017488 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0275713519712 0.0645574589148 43% => 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: 12.0 11.7677419355 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 58.1214874552 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.85 10.9000537634 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.56 8.01818996416 94% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 86.8835125448 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.002688172 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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