Learning is primarily a matter of personal discipline; students cannot be motivated by school or college alone.
Can students be extrinsically motivated to learn or does it need to come intrinsically? Extrinsic motivation is defined as motivation that comes from anything outside an internal desire. Conversely, intrinsic motivation is defined as motivation that comes from within. The commonly accepted dogma is that to learn students need to be intrinsically motivated. At a superficial level, this seems correct, but this paper will demonstrate that much of what is considered intrinsic motivation is actually extrinsic. Therefore, it is extrinsic motivation that is responsible for learning and not an intrinsic factor-like personal discipline.
The way information is presented in a classroom dictates a student's receptiveness to the material and ability to learn. For example, we have all had different teachers, whether it is elementary school, high school, or above, that took very dry material and through their personality and charisma got us interested. Now all of a sudden learning is taking place and learning will continue as long as the information is being presented in the same way. In this example, it is the teacher and the entertainment that is driving the learning. If these two variables are removed then the student will go back to being uninterested in the material and appear undisciplined.
A student might appear in the classroom to be very diligent and open to the content. They do all their homework, ace all their exams, take on additional learning and we assume it is due to an intrinsic drive. However, if you dig deeper you will always find other external reasons for their motivation. For example, they need to learn in order to keep their parents happier, to avoid falling and falling behind, or to maintain a GPA to get them into graduate school. All of these are undercover extrinsic motivators that push a student to continue to learn. Their discipline is coming from something other than themselves.
Ultimately, learning comes down to giving students the right conditions to learn and not from a personal desire. Additionally, other factors like fear of failure and desire to appease others are at the core of motivation. Those who believe students are learning through intrinsic means just haven't dug deep enough to undercover the true extrinsic motivation of a student.
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- Argument Topic The following appears in a letter to the editor for the West Lansburg News The tufted groundhog lives in the coastal wetlands of West Lansburg Ancient records suggest that the tufted groundhog once numbered in the millions Since they were d 16
- The way a message is delivered is often more important than the message itself 66
- Learning is primarily a matter of personal discipline students cannot be motivated by school or college alone 50
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 60, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
... is presented in a classroom dictates a students receptiveness to the material and abili...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 292, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: haven't
...e learning through intrinsic means just havent dug deep enough to undercover the true ...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, conversely, however, if, so, then, therefore, for example, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 58.6224719101 85% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1937.0 2235.4752809 87% => OK
No of words: 371.0 442.535393258 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.22102425876 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38877662729 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01514258013 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 215.323595506 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.514824797844 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 608.4 704.065955056 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.7641307137 60.3974514979 53% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 96.85 118.986275619 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.55 23.4991977007 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.45 5.21951772744 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 5.13820224719 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.285937824354 0.243740707755 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0969495537126 0.0831039109588 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0636519293841 0.0758088955206 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.180267081253 0.150359130593 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0273420613073 0.0667264976115 41% => 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: 12.4 14.1392134831 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.19 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 100.480337079 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 60, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
... is presented in a classroom dictates a students receptiveness to the material and abili...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 292, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: haven't
...e learning through intrinsic means just havent dug deep enough to undercover the true ...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, conversely, however, if, so, then, therefore, for example, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 58.6224719101 85% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1937.0 2235.4752809 87% => OK
No of words: 371.0 442.535393258 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.22102425876 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38877662729 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01514258013 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 215.323595506 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.514824797844 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 608.4 704.065955056 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.7641307137 60.3974514979 53% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 96.85 118.986275619 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.55 23.4991977007 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.45 5.21951772744 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 5.13820224719 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.285937824354 0.243740707755 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0969495537126 0.0831039109588 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0636519293841 0.0758088955206 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.180267081253 0.150359130593 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0273420613073 0.0667264976115 41% => 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: 12.4 14.1392134831 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.19 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 100.480337079 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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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.