Nowadays, it is commonly accepted that team working, particularly in educational systems like schools, is better than working alone and team working positively affects on overall performance. Contrary to this popular belief, there are those who argue that in team working only one or two persons work hard and the other persons are just free riders. However, I am inclined to believe that the advantages of team working outweigh its drawbacks and it is more beneficial, thus, it is better that teachers force students to work together on assigned projects. My statement will be substantiated by following paragraphs.
Working as a team member helps students to effectively interact with each other and try together to achieve a goal which is obtaining a high grade in this case. They learn how to discuss the problem and possible solutions with each other. At the same time, they learn how to look at the problem and solutions from the other perspectives and how to react when someone in their team does not agree with them. When I was 12, our teacher divided all students to small groups and assigned a project to each group.
At the time, our teacher started to talk about the importance of team working and taught us how to behave when we are working as team members. As I remember at the due time of the project, most of the groups obtained high scores because the members of groups had worked with each other very well and learned how to interact with the other members.
Another significant fact that should be taken into consideration is that students get opportunities to learn from each other. Take doing a research and giving a lecture about birds immigration. To do this project, the students should study different books, search on the internet, collect stuff as a report, and make some slides for their lecture. While some students might be good at searching on the internet and finding relevant information, they might be not good enough at preparing attractive slides for the lecture. By working as a group, students have such opportunities to learn and improve their skills.
Due to the aforementioned ground, I am inclined to believe that working together can positively influence on the learning of students due to learning about the other viewpoints as well as exchanging information. In my opinion, team working is a skill that persons must be taught during their education either in school or in university.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, look, so, thus, well, while, as well as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 43.0788530466 79% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 52.1666666667 117% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2029.0 1977.66487455 103% => OK
No of words: 410.0 407.700716846 101% => OK
Chars per words: 4.9487804878 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49982852243 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70861867195 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 212.727598566 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.50243902439 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 611.1 618.680645161 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.994623655914 101% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 20.1344086022 119% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.9025105713 48.9658058833 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.352941176 100.406767564 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.1176470588 20.6045352989 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.94117647059 5.45110844103 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.307047383509 0.236089414692 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101856216794 0.076458572812 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0444649703112 0.0737576698707 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169462143046 0.150856017488 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0397171973256 0.0645574589148 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 11.7677419355 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 58.1214874552 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.1575268817 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.73 10.9000537634 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.87 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 86.8835125448 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.002688172 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.0537634409 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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