In many organizations, perhaps the best way to approach certain new projects is to assemble a group of people into a team. Having a team of people attack a project offers several advantages. First of all, a group of people has a wider range of knowledge，expertise, and skills than any single individual is likely to possess. Also, because of the numbers of people involved and the greater resources they possess, a group can work more quickly in response to the task assigned to it and can come up with highly creative solutions to problems and issues. Sometimes these creative solutions come about because a group is more likely to make risky decisions that an individual might not undertake. This is because the group spreads responsibility for a decision to all the members and thus no single individual can be held accountable if the decision turns out to be wrong.
Taking part in a group process can be very rewarding for members of the team. Team members who have a voice in making a decision will no doubt feel better about carrying out the work that is entailed by the decision than they might doing work that is imposed on them by others. Also, the individual team member has a much better chance to “shine”, to get his or her contributions and ideas not only recognized but recognized as highly significant, because a team’s overall results can be more far-reaching and have greater impact than what might have otherwise been possible for the person to accomplish or contribute working alone.
Both the writing and lecture is about the discussion whether the task or activity carried out in group turns out to be efficacious or when it is carried out by an individual. The author believes that working in group proves to be fruitful while the lecturer rebuts this viewpoint of an author. On the other hand, Lecturer believes that working in group makes the project futile, invite tardiness and accolades being focused on whole group without any individual recognition. Lecturer addresses in detail about the reasons for having such opinions.
Firstly, the author makes the claim that working in group would provide highly creative solutions to the problems as every member in the group has profound knowledge, expertise and consummate skills. However, Lecturer refutes this claim of the author by stating that it doesn't necessarily mean that all the creative skills would be fused together to give better output. Lecturer further adds, when there are some influencers in the group who are able to convince the group to orient towards the certain direction, it leads to the ignoring the perspective of other group members despite the opinion of non-influencers being superior to that of influencers.
Secondly, the author states that the project would be completed on time while working in a group. While the lecturer confutes this opinion. Lecturer asserts that working in group invites tardiness. In addition, he states that the individuals of a group take a long time to reach a consensus eventually leading to the meetings and further discussions to reach the common ground, which would delay the activity.
Lastly, the author maintains that every individual will be underscored for the potent decisions that they are accountable. In contrary, Lecturer is of the opinion that certain teammates who contributed to a work in negligible amount also receives the same accolades as the success of tasks is credited to the whole group. Real contributors remain the unsung hero of the projects.
To conclude, both the author and lecturer hold conflicting viewpoint about the task to be carried out whether by a group or an individual. It is clear that they will have trouble finding the common ground on this issue.
- TOEFL T P O 2 Integrated Writing Task 37
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 270, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
... claim of the author by stating that it doesnt necessarily mean that all the creative ...
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Line 3, column 99, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “While” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...leted on time while working in a group. While the lecturer confutes this opinion. Lec...
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Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...nding the common ground on this issue.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, lastly, second, secondly, so, while, in addition, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 10.4613686534 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 5.04856512141 119% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 12.0772626932 149% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 22.412803532 107% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 30.3222958057 175% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1869.0 1373.03311258 136% => OK
No of words: 362.0 270.72406181 134% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16298342541 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36191444098 4.04702891845 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70416451483 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 145.348785872 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.483425414365 0.540411800872 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 565.2 419.366225166 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 3.25607064018 92% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.23620309051 49% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.5496759947 49.2860985944 135% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.8125 110.228320801 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.625 21.698381199 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.4375 7.06452816374 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.118799537405 0.272083759551 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0454978349653 0.0996497079465 46% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.03562567227 0.0662205650399 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0730936290868 0.162205337803 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0245239199705 0.0443174109184 55% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.3589403974 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 53.8541721854 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.0289183223 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.2367328918 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.83 8.42419426049 105% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 63.6247240618 148% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => 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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