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.
The article is about two advantages of working on a project as a team. However, the professor gives an example about a company that has teams that planned for a certain project, and unfortunatly there were many disadvantages for that team working.
To begin with, the reading first advantage of working as a team is that a group of people has a wider range of knowledge, expertise, and skills than any single individual which will make them work mork quickly. In contrast, from the example of the professor, the work in the project was not fast, and it did not move quickly because during planning the project many members did not contribute in working , and they spent a lot of time in organizing and assembling their ideas.
Second, the article explains that working as a group can be very rewarding. Team members who have a voice in making a decision will feel better about working on their ideas rather than obey what other people told them . According to the lecture, working on a team was not rewarding because the recognition went to the whole team, so the member who has a positive effect on the team and the one who did not do any thing were the same. Moreover, members who have a voice in a group could have a negative effect. For instance, in one of the teams, they give a bad decision, and regardless other's warnings, the team followed what they decided.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 403, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...ny members did not contribute in working , and they spent a lot of time in organiz...
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Line 3, column 217, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...er than obey what other people told them . According to the lecture, working on a ...
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Line 3, column 409, Rule ID: ANY_BODY[2]
Message: Did you mean 'anything'?
Suggestion: anything
... on the team and the one who did not do any thing were the same. Moreover, members who ha...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, moreover, second, so, for instance, in contrast, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 10.4613686534 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 7.30242825607 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 12.0772626932 83% => OK
Pronoun: 13.0 22.412803532 58% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 5.01324503311 40% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1123.0 1373.03311258 82% => OK
No of words: 244.0 270.72406181 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.60245901639 5.08290768461 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.95227774224 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51088252077 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 132.0 145.348785872 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.540983606557 0.540411800872 100% => OK
syllable_count: 352.8 419.366225166 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.23620309051 73% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.51434878587 330% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 13.0662251656 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 21.2450331126 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 66.3375208059 49.2860985944 135% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.777777778 110.228320801 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.1111111111 21.698381199 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.22222222222 7.06452816374 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.09492273731 73% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.268803817293 0.272083759551 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.114903850404 0.0996497079465 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0508623730164 0.0662205650399 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.190842289421 0.162205337803 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0256970163613 0.0443174109184 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 60.99 53.8541721854 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.0289183223 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.7 12.2367328918 79% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.08 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 48.0 63.6247240618 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.7273730684 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.498013245 122% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted. The correct pattern:
para 1: introduction
para 2: doubt 1
para 3: doubt 2
para 4: doubt 3
Less contents wanted from the reading passages(25%), more content wanted from the lecture (75%).
Don't need a conclusion paragraph.
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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