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 that 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 reading passage and the lecture are both about working in teams or groups. The author of the article claims that having issues delt with by a group of people is more beneficial than single individual working alone to find solutions for the confronted problem. The lecturer casts doubt on those clams mentioned in the article. The speaker thinks that people working together could end up being detrimental in many ways.
First of all, the article postulates that a group of people has a wider range of knowledge, expertise, and skills. As a result, teams can accomplish tasks more quickly than a single person. This point is challenged by the lecturer. He states that it's hard to reach consensus between group members on how to move forward with the project or the task assigned to them. A team of people would need many meetings to build agreement among team members. Therefore, they would never finish tasks efficiently or quickly.
Moreover, the passage asserts that groups would be able to come up with creative solutions more than single individuals. The author elaborates more by mentioning that groups are more likely to make risky decision because if the decision did not have positive results, the responsibility would be spread to all the group members and not a single person. However, the lecturer refutes this argument. The speaker in the lecture suggests that this would not be completely true because some team members are sometimes very influential on what the entire group does. if those influencers are against an idea, this idea is quickly dropped by the group without further discussions. On the other hand, if the influencers think that a plan is highly creative, the group usually goes forward with this plan ignoring any warnings from other team members who have a different point of view and who would share the responsibility in case of failure.
Lastly, the author is with the idea that taking part in a group process can be very rewarding for members of the team. According to the article, when team members have a voice in decision making, they would feel better carrying out the work that that is entailed by that decision than doing work that is imposed on them by others. In contrast, the lecturer puts forward the idea that working in groups would never be rewarding for members of that group for many reasons. One reason is that some people would not contribute to the group work and yet get a free ride gaining recognition nad benefits without any achievement. This would also make other team members who worked hard to achieve the task less motivated because they never get recognized by name for their insight and contributions.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 265, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...d solutions for the confronted problem. The lecturer casts doubt on those clams men...
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Line 1, column 331, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...n those clams mentioned in the article. The speaker thinks that people working toge...
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Line 5, column 562, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...luential on what the entire group does. if those influencers are against an idea, ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, lastly, moreover, so, therefore, in contrast, as a result, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 10.4613686534 172% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 5.04856512141 277% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 12.0772626932 166% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 22.412803532 143% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 58.0 30.3222958057 191% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.01324503311 80% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2226.0 1373.03311258 162% => OK
No of words: 453.0 270.72406181 167% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.91390728477 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61343653406 4.04702891845 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51125463002 2.5805825403 97% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 145.348785872 149% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.476821192053 0.540411800872 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 671.4 419.366225166 160% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 3.25607064018 184% => OK
Article: 14.0 8.23620309051 170% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 1.25165562914 320% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 13.0662251656 161% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 21.2450331126 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.3920828153 49.2860985944 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.0 110.228320801 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5714285714 21.698381199 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.7619047619 7.06452816374 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 4.33554083885 208% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.27373068433 94% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.235975942491 0.272083759551 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0784929526547 0.0996497079465 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0740996799724 0.0662205650399 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169081131002 0.162205337803 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0659538509302 0.0443174109184 149% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 13.3589403974 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 53.8541721854 109% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.2 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.64 8.42419426049 91% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 63.6247240618 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.498013245 99% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => 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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