Some students prefer classes with frequent discussions between the professor and the students with almost no lectures. Other students prefer classes with many lectures and almost no discussions. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
I prefer frequent discussions between the professor and the students. Some people argue that frequent discussions will make it impossible to complete the curriculum in limited amount of time citing the digressive nature of these conversations. However, I believe that these interactions offer far more advantages. I will explain my viewpoint by providing three reasons.
First, Interactive nature of these discussions, makes the process of learning a lot more efficient. Students will not dare to be inattentive in the classes due to the constant fear of the being questioned. As students are more attentive, they will understand the subject matter in a better fashion. By way of an example, My chemistry teacher in high school, used to constantly have discussions with us. He would question those students who would not pay attention. Thus, all of us, focused on whatever was being taught. We were able under chemistry in great detail and scored good grades. On the other hand, Our mathematics teacher would give us monologues. It was difficult for us to follow and learn the subject. Subsequently, our grades took a hit and the teacher was reprimanded. Therefore, discussions are necessary for improved academic performance of the students.
In addition to the interactive nature, constant conversations between the teacher and the students, will leave no room for miscommunication. For instance, the same chemistry teacher would let us ask doubts and questions pertaining to the subject, as and when they occurred in our minds. This was very important because if we did not understand a basic concept, it would have been impossible to learn a complex topic. In other words, the speech related to the advanced topics would have sounded like gibberish to us. This was yet another factor for our success in academics. Moreover, this will provide the teacher with a way to monitor the efficacy of his lectures, periodically. The teacher will be able to correct the understanding of students, if it has been misinterpreted and thus ensure that students can comprehend future topics.
Finally, this provides an opportunity for constructive feedback and criticism i.e if the teacher’s style of explanation is difficult to follow, then students can express their concerns and also provide with ways to improve the lecture. This is particularly important for the teacher because it will help refine his skills and help him get better at the job. This will also help the students as they do not have to put in a lot of efforts to understand what is being taught.
To conclude, I do concede that constant discussions might make it difficult for the teacher to complete the portions on time. In spite of that, I believe the encouraging effects outweigh the ills. Constant Interactions between the teacher and the students will provide an opportunity to make the process of learning more productive.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, moreover, so, then, therefore, thus, for instance, in addition, in my view, in other words, in spite of, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 15.1003584229 119% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 9.8082437276 194% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 13.8261648746 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.0286738351 63% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 49.0 43.0788530466 114% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 52.1666666667 107% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2439.0 1977.66487455 123% => OK
No of words: 470.0 407.700716846 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18936170213 4.8611393121 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65612321451 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00788837647 2.67179642975 113% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 212.727598566 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.524837075471 95% => OK
syllable_count: 742.5 618.680645161 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 19.0 9.59856630824 198% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.6003584229 136% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.4866575695 48.9658058833 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.1071428571 100.406767564 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.7857142857 20.6045352989 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.60714285714 5.45110844103 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 11.8709677419 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.153735559876 0.236089414692 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0431365687016 0.076458572812 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0551697220993 0.0737576698707 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0894205085419 0.150856017488 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0204650469886 0.0645574589148 32% => 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: 11.4 11.7677419355 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 58.1214874552 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 10.9000537634 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 86.8835125448 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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