The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and support

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The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.

Teaching is an art. An individual has to make sure that his message is being imbibed by his audience effectively. He has to devise strategies to ensure that his people learn to do the right things in the right way and to achieve such a goal, he would have to pay heed to their actions. Indeed, the best way to teach is to give equal weightage to negative and positive actions.

When a teacher only lauds the positive actions of his students then that is not actually teaching. A student learns best when corrected for the wrong actions he participated in for not repeating them in the future. Take for instance a child who gets an A-grade in mathematics but at the same time has a bad habit of stealing. By simply praising him for his fabulous performance in mathematics and ignoring his wrong deeds would not turn out to be very beneficial for him in the future. This is not only seen at the classroom level but also in the industrial, business and research sectors where there is always a leader who sheds knowledge on his pupils and is ready to correct their actions. By doing so, two cardinal goals are achieved- the first being the low probability of the wrong deed being repeated again and second being the insurance of a better future for the person who commits the wrong action. Hence for the above goals to be realized, emphasis should be given not only to the positive deeds but also to the negative ones as well.

The necessity for praising a person to get the best out of him has become overemphasized these days. We see this fact given the primacy in every aspect of our lives, be it in the case of the children whom we teach or the employees working under us in a corporation to name a few. This has become an axiom for everyone in the world. What has been frequently ignored is the fact that exalting a person too much can make him overconfident and sometimes even insolent. This would be counterproductive. If the employees in the industrial sector are given unbridled appreciation, this would not encourage them to learn new things, but instead, fuel them with arrogance and superiority. Therefore, to make sure that people keep learning and continue making progress, checking them for their wrongs is quintessential.

However, there are different kinds of people everywhere. Some people take criticisms positively and use it to their advantage while there are also those who are weak-hearted and shy, who rely on praise more than criticism to give their best. For such people, paying heed to their good and bad deeds equally is not the most effective way of teaching them. Lauding them too much does not make them overbearing and criticising them to the same extent makes them prone to depression and decreased productivity. In such cases, giving more emphasis on positive actions seems more tenable.

Although, not everyone gains advantage from criticism that is commensurate with the praise showered on them, such exceptions always exist. Nonetheless, teaching is made the most effective when it is a well-balanced alloy of praise and criticism.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “When” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...ge to negative and positive actions. When a teacher only lauds the positive actio...
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Line 3, column 117, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to best', 'to well'
Suggestion: to best; to well
...not actually teaching. A student learns best when corrected for the wrong actions he...
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Line 3, column 800, Rule ID: REPEAT_AGAIN[1]
Message: Use simply 'repeated'.
Suggestion: repeated
...low probability of the wrong deed being repeated again and second being the insurance of a bet...
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Line 3, column 910, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...he person who commits the wrong action. Hence for the above goals to be realized, emp...
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Line 7, column 154, Rule ID: WHO_NOUN[1]
Message: A noun should not follow "who". Try changing to a verb or maybe to 'who is a are'.
Suggestion: who is a are
...ir advantage while there are also those who are weak-hearted and shy, who rely on prais...
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Line 9, column 247, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...balanced alloy of praise and criticism.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, hence, however, if, nonetheless, second, so, then, therefore, well, while, as to, for instance

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 33.0505617978 151% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2549.0 2235.4752809 114% => OK
No of words: 531.0 442.535393258 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.80037664783 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.80035803286 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72708508472 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 259.0 215.323595506 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.487758945386 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 799.2 704.065955056 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.0530077469 60.3974514979 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.96 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.24 23.4991977007 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.88 5.21951772744 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.14390504563 0.243740707755 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0459213943123 0.0831039109588 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0404389588806 0.0758088955206 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0829170140172 0.150359130593 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0191627418654 0.0667264976115 29% => 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: 11.8 14.1392134831 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.8420337079 120% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.56 12.1639044944 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.92 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 100.480337079 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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