Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?When classmates or colleagues communicate about a project in person instead of by e-mail，they will produce better work for the project. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?

When classmates or colleagues communicate about a project in person instead of by e-mail，they will produce better work for the project.

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

As an aged-old aphorism goes, "it is not what you say, but how you say it." Effective communication is imperative to the success of the teamwork no matter in school life or in workplace. Thus while emails have been the most widely used tool for communication today, co-workers should keep face-to-face communication for better work output.

Admittedly, emails seem to be an efficient and easy way for colleagues to exchange information, especially when issuing notice to all team members. Instead of gathering together in person, what everyone needs is just to check their mail box ad read the email. This helps avoid possible troubles, such as travelling to another end of the city, adjusting the hectic schedule to make it available for meeting. Communicating by emails is therefore seemed as a shortcut of daily communication in workplace, which allow colleagues to put more time in project rather than irrelevant issues.

However, during the project, there might be more two-way interactions with urgency. In such situations, sending emails is not a good move. When a fast response is needed, if is really annoying and time-wasting to wait for the recipients to check the email and make response. Thus, rather than sending emails back and forth, talking with someone in person can be more efficient. For example, when making plan for the project, the members might need a twenty minutes' discussion face to face in order to negotiate every details, but it possibly takes a whole day to settle each part down if they have to communicate by emails.

Moreover, for the quality of communication, team members are suggested to have more face-to-face interactions. It is inevitable that a lot of information can get lost in translation when being conveyed by emails. However, when having contact in person, people could not only get a clear understanding of verbal information but also pick up all the implications expressed in speakers body language. Compared with just reading an "OK"in email, direct eye contact and nodding head could tell more about whether the colleagues could really reach a consensus. Once being aware of potential disagreement, the members are able to make adjustment immediately to ensure everyone to comply with the shared target and to make wholehearted dedication. Also, in some cases, writing emails is rather restricted in informing some complicated issues, especially for those with inadequate formal writing skills, Instead, having a discussion in reality, people could ask questions and get immediate explanation, which avoids misunderstanding and ensures the accuracy of communication. All of these de push forward the project in progress smoothly.

In conclusion, for some one-way information transmission, email is regarded as the first choice for most of team members, while to guarantee the efficiency for project planning and decision making as well as to avoid the misunderstanding and inaccuracy, communication in person should be advocated.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, moreover, really, so, therefore, thus, well, while, as to, for example, in conclusion, such as, as well as, in some cases

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 43.0788530466 30% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 52.1666666667 125% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 8.0752688172 198% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2548.0 1977.66487455 129% => OK
No of words: 473.0 407.700716846 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.38689217759 4.8611393121 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.66353547975 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.10818050316 2.67179642975 116% => OK
Unique words: 270.0 212.727598566 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.570824524313 0.524837075471 109% => OK
syllable_count: 792.0 618.680645161 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 9.59856630824 31% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.1344086022 119% => OK
Sentence length SD: 71.0565690917 48.9658058833 145% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.105263158 100.406767564 134% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8947368421 20.6045352989 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.0 5.45110844103 147% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.201621357847 0.236089414692 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0608252058217 0.076458572812 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.037043177487 0.0737576698707 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.121727603137 0.150856017488 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.016896498995 0.0645574589148 26% => 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: 16.4 11.7677419355 139% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 58.1214874552 67% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.10430107527 183% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 10.1575268817 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.28 10.9000537634 131% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.3 8.01818996416 116% => OK
difficult_words: 134.0 86.8835125448 154% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.002688172 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.0537634409 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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