Nowadays many high schools and universities require students to work on projects in groups, and all members of the group receive the same grade (mark) on the project. Do you agree or disagree that giving every member of a group the same grade is a good way to evaluate students?
Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer Be sure to use your own words Do not use memorized examples.
Doing a project in a group can be really controversial, since all the participants share the same result and if they fail achieve what group was set out for, it would be a failure for all members. Personally, I believe though it might not be always fair, members of a group should get equal grade. I feel this way for two main reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.
To begin with, there are some certain rules in working as a group that people learn during their participants in groups. One of the very basic rules is that members have equal share vin group's success or failure. Although it may not be judicious all the time, people should propel their duties in a group considering this fact. To be more specific, a teacher or a professor is not entirely aware of all affairs in a group during a project, thus he can't assess each individual in a group separately. For instance, I used to be a teacher assistant at university, and I was in charge of grading final projects which were done by student in group. It was an arduous assignment and involved a lot of coding. It was hard enough to grade each group, let alone grading each individual separately. However, a member of one group had complain about the grading and she asserted that she had done most part of the project. However, other members denied and said they all did their assigned duties. It was impossible for me to come across who was saying the truth, thus I didn't change their grade.
Another significant reason is that students should learn not to be stoic about other members inactivity. It has the same analogy with the things that we might encounter in the real life. For instance, a person throw a garbage at street. There are two approaches to respond this action, first, we may pass by indifferently and say nothing, second, we feel responsible as a citizen and ask that person politely to take their garbage. This sense of responsibility toward action that can have impacts on our lives, must be taught to children at school. Working in group is a compelling way to teach them this principle.
In conclusion, assessing all members of a group like each other is the best way of grading them. As a group people hand in a project and all members will be graded according to their result, plus students should learn that there are some actions in this world that may have repercussions for all of us, so they should not be stoic about them.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 448, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...rs in a group during a project, thus he cant assess each individual in a group separ...
^^^^
Line 2, column 448, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'cants'.
Suggestion: cants
...rs in a group during a project, thus he cant assess each individual in a group separ...
^^^^
Line 2, column 824, Rule ID: HAD_VBP[1]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'complained'.
Suggestion: complained
...ely. However, a member of one group had complain about the grading and she asserted that...
^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 824, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'complained'.
Suggestion: complained
...ely. However, a member of one group had complain about the grading and she asserted that...
^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 1060, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...across who was saying the truth, thus I didnt change their grade. Another significan...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 86, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'members'' or 'member's'?
Suggestion: members'; member's
...hould learn not to be stoic about other members inactivity. It has the same analogy wit...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 216, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[1]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'garbage'.
Suggestion: garbage
...real life. For instance, a person throw a garbage at street. There are two approaches to ...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, really, second, so, thus, for instance, i feel, in conclusion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 15.1003584229 166% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 9.8082437276 163% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 49.0 43.0788530466 114% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 52.1666666667 105% => 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: 1995.0 1977.66487455 101% => OK
No of words: 437.0 407.700716846 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.5652173913 4.8611393121 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57214883401 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54663215173 2.67179642975 95% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 212.727598566 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.503432494279 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 609.3 618.680645161 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.8160971184 48.9658058833 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.0 100.406767564 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8095238095 20.6045352989 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.80952380952 5.45110844103 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.5376344086 126% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.336401956997 0.236089414692 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106528005887 0.076458572812 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0753964463409 0.0737576698707 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.22349207466 0.150856017488 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0736506717146 0.0645574589148 114% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.5 11.7677419355 89% => 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: 9.23 10.9000537634 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.45 8.01818996416 93% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 86.8835125448 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => 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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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 2, column 448, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...rs in a group during a project, thus he cant assess each individual in a group separ...
^^^^
Line 2, column 448, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'cants'.
Suggestion: cants
...rs in a group during a project, thus he cant assess each individual in a group separ...
^^^^
Line 2, column 824, Rule ID: HAD_VBP[1]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'complained'.
Suggestion: complained
...ely. However, a member of one group had complain about the grading and she asserted that...
^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 824, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'complained'.
Suggestion: complained
...ely. However, a member of one group had complain about the grading and she asserted that...
^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 1060, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...across who was saying the truth, thus I didnt change their grade. Another significan...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 86, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'members'' or 'member's'?
Suggestion: members'; member's
...hould learn not to be stoic about other members inactivity. It has the same analogy wit...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 216, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[1]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'garbage'.
Suggestion: garbage
...real life. For instance, a person throw a garbage at street. There are two approaches to ...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, may, really, second, so, thus, for instance, i feel, in conclusion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 15.1003584229 166% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 9.8082437276 163% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 49.0 43.0788530466 114% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 52.1666666667 105% => 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: 1995.0 1977.66487455 101% => OK
No of words: 437.0 407.700716846 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.5652173913 4.8611393121 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57214883401 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54663215173 2.67179642975 95% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 212.727598566 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.503432494279 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 609.3 618.680645161 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.8160971184 48.9658058833 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.0 100.406767564 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8095238095 20.6045352989 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.80952380952 5.45110844103 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.5376344086 126% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.336401956997 0.236089414692 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106528005887 0.076458572812 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0753964463409 0.0737576698707 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.22349207466 0.150856017488 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0736506717146 0.0645574589148 114% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.5 11.7677419355 89% => 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: 9.23 10.9000537634 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.45 8.01818996416 93% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 86.8835125448 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => 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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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.