You may choose between two professors who will be teaching a course that you must take at your university. If the following statements are the only information available to you about the differences between the two professors, which professor would you choose? Why?
- A professor who proves to be very popular in students’ evaluations
- A professor who was recently given an award for outstanding research.
In some universities, a single course may be taught by more than one professor, so students have to make a choice between them. Some people may choose a popular professor while I am inclined to selecting a professor who was given an award for excellent research in recent days.
First, you can learn better in a course taught by that kind of professor. Clearly, a professor who is able to finish an outstanding research tends to have a high-level comprehension of knowledge in his field and know the up-to-date information about this subject. In this case, he can teach this course by an advanced viewpoint and give students more useful materials than other professors. Moreover, those professors may be more familiar with the problems in this course, so if students have hard nuts to crack about the course, the professor can always give a detailed explanation to them. Therefore, students can learn much better about the course. For example, my Real Analysis is taught by Prof. Zhang, who was just awarded for her researches in the past several years. She often explains the class materials from a different point of view, which enables us to understand elusive concepts easily, and sometimes she gives some extra useful materials she writes or carefully selects for us. Once I asked her about a troublesome problem which I tried for couple of days, she answered that in detail and told me how she analyzed that question, which greatly improves my comprehension about the items taught in class.
Besides, a professor with a high reputation in research may bring you some extra opportunities. A professor bestowed with an award often enjoys a high academic reputation and in this case, he may know many persons in that field. In this case, if you take courses taught by him, he may use his connections to help you or to give you some valuable chances. For instance, my sister took a biology class taught by a professor with many research rewards given recently. In that course, the professor often brought his students to observe some importance samples held by his research partners instead of just letting students see pictures in the textbook. Besides, due to her outstanding performance in this course, my sister was recommended to be an intern in a famous biology lab cooperating with the professor, which was undoubtedly a precious chance for her.
Admittedly, the popularity of certain professor partly reveals the attitudes of students who take his/her course towards him/her. However, in fact, being popular in students’ evaluation does not necessarily mean that the professor is good because the professor may just give them a good grade or provide easy materials for students.
In conclusion, a professor good at research can help you learn better and give you more opportunities while a popular professor may not be as good as you imagine. Therefore, I prefer to take course taught by professors who was recently given an award for excellent research.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 22, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to better', 'to well'
Suggestion: to better; to well
...h in recent days. First, you can learn better in a course taught by that kind of prof...
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Line 2, column 117, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[3]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'outstanding research'.
Suggestion: outstanding research
...arly, a professor who is able to finish an outstanding research tends to have a high-level comprehensio...
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Line 5, column 64, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to better', 'to well'
Suggestion: to better; to well
...sor good at research can help you learn better and give you more opportunities while a...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, first, however, if, may, moreover, so, therefore, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 15.1003584229 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 13.8261648746 65% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.0286738351 136% => OK
Pronoun: 57.0 43.0788530466 132% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 64.0 52.1666666667 123% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2480.0 1977.66487455 125% => OK
No of words: 495.0 407.700716846 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0101010101 4.8611393121 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71684168287 4.48103885553 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82877773448 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 212.727598566 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.464646464646 0.524837075471 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 768.6 618.680645161 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 9.59856630824 115% => OK
Article: 8.0 3.08781362007 259% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.910655023 48.9658058833 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.095238095 100.406767564 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5714285714 20.6045352989 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.90476190476 5.45110844103 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 11.8709677419 143% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.222184865217 0.236089414692 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0796388286881 0.076458572812 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.070418149732 0.0737576698707 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.155286109489 0.150856017488 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0557279949176 0.0645574589148 86% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 11.7677419355 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 58.1214874552 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.1575268817 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 10.9000537634 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.01818996416 99% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 86.8835125448 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => 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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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.