Grades encourage students to learn. Do you agree or disagree?
Grades have become a hotly debated topic in schools today. In my opinion, I believe that grades encourage students to learn. I feel this way for two reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.
First, grades motivate students to study course material seriously and deeply. When a student knows what he will be evaluated on for his courses, he will concentrate very much on the lectures at school as well as invest more time on the assignments to be able to get a score as highly as possible. As a result, he will gain a more complete understanding of the topic that he is studying. On the contrary, a student who is in a class without grades will achieve only a superficial knowledge of his class. My own experience is a compelling example of this. In my sophomore year in college, an English teacher decided that 40% of the total grade would be from participation in class. Before this class, I was a very passive student. Although I was a good student, I just preferred to listen to the teacher all the time without engaging in any discussions in class because I was not rewarded or punished with grades. Because of the new rule for the grade from my English class, it forced me to overcome my shyness to enthusiastically take part in every discussion. Consequently, I was a henceforth a very active student, and of course, I received very high scores in that class. For this reason, I believe it is very beneficial to offer students grades at school.
Second, grades work as an objective indication for a student to know how well he is learning in the class and can be compared with the scores of other students. In fact, this means that if a student receives a low score, he will recognize that he needs to work harder to master the course material. On the other hand, when a learner just studies without having any tests or examinations, it would be hard for him to know what level of his understanding that he has achieved. For example, when I was in a math class in my Freshman college year, I did not spend much time to do the homework, whereas I was very confident with my excellent mathematical ability from high school. Ultimately, my test scores were just enough to pass the course. If that course would have been a pass/fail class, I would not have known what my real score was. From that moment forward, I reminded myself that I need to give my best effort all the time when I study at school or do anything in life. Accordingly, I think that it is very necessary for student to get grades at school.
In conclusion, I strongly believe that grades motivate students to learn. This is because grades promote learners to work harder, and because they are a clear benchmarks for students to study diligently to master the knowledge.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'had been'?
Suggestion: had been
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, consequently, first, hence, if, second, so, thus, well, whereas, for example, i feel, i think, in conclusion, in fact, of course, as a result, as well as, in my opinion, on the contrary, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 15.1003584229 146% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 9.8082437276 122% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 13.8261648746 51% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.0286738351 163% => OK
Pronoun: 66.0 43.0788530466 153% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 66.0 52.1666666667 127% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.0752688172 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2263.0 1977.66487455 114% => OK
No of words: 496.0 407.700716846 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.5625 4.8611393121 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71922212354 4.48103885553 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70562938676 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 227.0 212.727598566 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.457661290323 0.524837075471 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 713.7 618.680645161 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 21.0 9.59856630824 219% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.51792114695 227% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.94265232975 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6003584229 117% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.4138517541 48.9658058833 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.2916666667 100.406767564 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6666666667 20.6045352989 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.04166666667 5.45110844103 166% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 11.8709677419 126% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.186267386577 0.236089414692 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0749183127898 0.076458572812 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0851555549531 0.0737576698707 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.157805608286 0.150856017488 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0454021194944 0.0645574589148 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 11.7677419355 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 68.1 58.1214874552 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 10.1575268817 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.17 10.9000537634 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.88 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 86.8835125448 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 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: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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