Claim: Group assignments that students must work together to complete should replace a substantial amount of traditional lecture-based instruction in college and university courses.
Reason: It is vital for students to gain experience collaborating with peers to study a topic and to achieve a common goal.
The following claim states that a significant amount of time must be deduced from traditional lecture-based instruction in college and university courses and instead must be provided for group assignments. One can say that of many, the two ways in which a student can gain knowledge is from 1. learning form the learned, that is teachers from the college/ university 2. gaining knowledge from their peers.
One cannot deny that group studying helps a child to develop his communication and social skills, gain experience collaborating with peers, sharing different approaches for solving a particular problem, and also achieve a common goal. On the other hand the traditional method of teaching can provide a properly strucuterd and well-designed curriculum, taught by skilled teachers, guidance not only for solving questions but also to build their own careers and be competant enough. While both these methods have their own advantages, eliminating significant time from any one of it does not seem feasible. From the following claims in the essay, it can be concluded that both methods are instead complementary and should be given appropriate time.
While the arguer provides reason to provide more time to group study, it becomes necessary to bring in critical disadvantages of group study. It is not always necessary that all the questions from the group assignments will be solved even by the group together. At a point, it becomes necessary for students to devote time to their college/ universities to clear up certain concepts due to which they weren't able to solve few questions in assignments. It will be beneficial that instead of discussing all the questions, only the douts can be solved in the class and hence saving time, however, that must not implement, reducing that time from the class. Instead, this additional time can be used to teach advanced concepts using several interactive tools developed, to make students more engaged in class too. This can help students develop additional skills.
The exposure can be provided in the class itself as seen by using appropriate technologies. In addition to the point, it is also very necessary for the student to developed his own personality and make his own goals. This strongly weakens the reason to the argument that student can aim for a common goal in group study. Group study till some extent can be responsible to developed sheeps following same pah and goal as few of their members. This shows a prime importance fo traditional college teaching method that can help develope student their own skills and personalities. In addition to developing own personalities, one crucial point is not to be overlooked that all the students are not of same caliber.
There can be a case in groups that all the students are not of same intelligence or potential. Hence, at the end many weak students tend to completely depend on the smarter students. This can have great disadvantage that the weaker ones might not learn significantly from the assignment or the project. Not only the weaker students, but, generally in group projects it is the case where the work is divided amongst the members. Thus in the end students might end up knowing only a portion of the project. Eg: the project is to describe and analyze different species of plants. Out of 10, each student will end up knowing only 2 of those species in a group of 5. Thus in this case it also becomes necessary to give time to the traditional teaching method equal time, so that there can be a one on one interaction of student and teacher during interactive teaching sessions.
Hence, though group study has its own benefits, it is not feasible to reduce the significant time from traditional teaching methods from colleges and universities. It can be possible that if these two teaching methods are implemented parallel, it can make a student ready to face the competitiveness when he passes out his graduation.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 295, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Learning
...a student can gain knowledge is from 1. learning form the learned, that is teachers from...
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Line 1, column 304, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to form'
Suggestion: to form
... can gain knowledge is from 1. learning form the learned, that is teachers from the ...
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Line 1, column 304, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'forms'.
Suggestion: forms
... can gain knowledge is from 1. learning form the learned, that is teachers from the ...
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Line 1, column 371, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Gaining
...eachers from the college/ university 2. gaining knowledge from their peers. One can...
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Line 5, column 402, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: weren't
...r up certain concepts due to which they werent able to solve few questions in assignme...
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Line 9, column 429, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...he work is divided amongst the members. Thus in the end students might end up knowin...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...nly 2 of those species in a group of 5. Thus in this case it also becomes necessary ...
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Line 12, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ess when he passes out his graduation.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, look, so, thus, well, while, in addition, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 26.0 12.4196629213 209% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.3162921348 177% => OK
Pronoun: 51.0 33.0505617978 154% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 80.0 58.6224719101 136% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3300.0 2235.4752809 148% => OK
No of words: 655.0 442.535393258 148% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.03816793893 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.05894927669 4.55969084622 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86196064209 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 289.0 215.323595506 134% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.441221374046 0.4932671777 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1018.8 704.065955056 145% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 6.24550561798 256% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.6018694218 60.3974514979 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.0 118.986275619 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8333333333 23.4991977007 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.0 5.21951772744 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 7.80617977528 102% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.2758426966 165% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.226054324633 0.243740707755 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0681089278392 0.0831039109588 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0547728944368 0.0758088955206 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133624094214 0.150359130593 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0615968496281 0.0667264976115 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.1392134831 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.98 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 137.0 100.480337079 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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