In this high competitive world, education is a pressing question for every family. At school, different teaching strategies will brings different performance, thus has great impact on students' grades. It has never failed to arouse public concerns and at the same time provoke a hot debate about what is the best way of teaching. Were I forced to choose, I, without hesitation, advocate that teachers should ask students to attend discussion and exchange ideas. I feel this way for two reasons, which I will elaborate on in the following passages.
First of all, involving in discussion and exchanging ideas enable students to have deeper understanding of the materials. To be clear, in discussion, children tend to listen to different opinions and perfect their own point of views. For 14-18 years old students, they have the right to have personal idea. Unlike mindlessly focus on teachers' lectures and taking notes they may seldom review, every students now have to dive into the study to prepare for expressing their thoughts. It will encourage them to be more effective in learning.
Second, no one can deny the fact that children are more motivated in discussion. Instead of passively following teachers' lecturing, they now can participate in every process of discussion. In the long term, without the help of teachers, children are inclined to develop independent learning skill, which will be beneficial not only for their current study, but also for their future career development. Take myself for example, I used to have bad grades in my English. However, when my English teacher allowed us to form study group and express our opinions in English. I felt that I have more control of my studying, thus are more willing to take part in. In the end, I have excellent grade in that semester. Had it not been for my teacher's innovative teaching, I would never make progress in English.
Admittedly, it's hard to deny that taking notes will help kids remember lectures thus improve their performance. Nevertheless, there are several factual and logical fallacies in this argument, and it should be examined meticulously. It will only be helpful in shot term by passively taking teachers' opinions. Only when they are allowed to form their own opinions, they can learn more effectively in long term.
Considering all the arguments given above, we can safely say that organizing discussion is more helpful for students' learning.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 130, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'bring'
Suggestion: bring
...ool, different teaching strategies will brings different performance, thus has great i...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, so, thus, for example, i feel, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 9.8082437276 143% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 13.8261648746 65% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 43.0788530466 100% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 52.1666666667 104% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2042.0 1977.66487455 103% => OK
No of words: 399.0 407.700716846 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11779448622 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46933824581 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74596604505 2.67179642975 103% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 212.727598566 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.561403508772 0.524837075471 107% => OK
syllable_count: 630.0 618.680645161 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.94265232975 202% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.888506198 48.9658058833 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.7826086957 100.406767564 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.347826087 20.6045352989 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.39130434783 5.45110844103 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.179577249064 0.236089414692 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0481296323602 0.076458572812 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0415874660526 0.0737576698707 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0990829354105 0.150856017488 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0425538618605 0.0645574589148 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 11.7677419355 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 58.1214874552 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.12 10.9000537634 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.01818996416 105% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 86.8835125448 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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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 1, column 130, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'bring'
Suggestion: bring
...ool, different teaching strategies will brings different performance, thus has great i...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, so, thus, for example, i feel, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 9.8082437276 143% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 13.8261648746 65% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 43.0788530466 100% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 52.1666666667 104% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2042.0 1977.66487455 103% => OK
No of words: 399.0 407.700716846 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11779448622 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46933824581 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74596604505 2.67179642975 103% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 212.727598566 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.561403508772 0.524837075471 107% => OK
syllable_count: 630.0 618.680645161 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.94265232975 202% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.888506198 48.9658058833 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 88.7826086957 100.406767564 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.347826087 20.6045352989 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.39130434783 5.45110844103 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.179577249064 0.236089414692 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0481296323602 0.076458572812 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0415874660526 0.0737576698707 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0990829354105 0.150856017488 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0425538618605 0.0645574589148 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 11.7677419355 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 58.1214874552 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.12 10.9000537634 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.01818996416 105% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 86.8835125448 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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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.