Study of cooperation and conflict between same age groups children
The reading passage and the lecture both are about the effects of peer groups on children. The author contends that organizing children into groups can encourage tolerance and cooperation while discouraging conflict and competition. The lecturer challenges this claim and gives arguments to bolster his position.
To begin with, the author notes that there is a feeling of equality in terms of status and power among children. Therefore, teasing and joking are acceptable. In fact, it helps to build tolerance among the peers of the group. The lecturer challenges this point by stating a study in which 22 children each 11 years of age were divided into two groups. It was found that negative attitudes increased among the children of the two groups. In that, they named their groups the "eagles" and the "rattles". Consequently, it led to increased teasing. Thus, it resulted in more hostility which was counterproductive to what the author claimed.
Secondly, the author points out that structured competition such as team sports and games will challenge individuals to perform better for the group. In turn, this will lead to reduced conflicts among peers because the competition is structured and healthy. The speaker's counterargument to this argument is that in the study mentioned above when the children were given collaborative work such as basketball games or cabin inspections along with prizes announced for the winners, these structured tasks resulted in increased conflicts among the team members.
Lastly, it is noted in the passage that cooperation is the ability that children can develop naturally by socializing with their friends, classmates, and teammates. They all experience similar issues while learning in their regular life. The lecturer disagrees with this idea because, in the research study when the children in two groups were put back together and given some important tasks that required collaboration such as fixing a broken water tank, the prejudice of conflict and competition disappeared in a few days. The differences were resolved and the job was done perfectly. This shows that the quality of being a good team player does not come naturally or by socializing in a group. Instead, children develop this quality by being part of the team as a whole.
To sum up, the writer presents the points for how peer groups can be beneficial for enhancing tolerance and cooperation and reducing conflicts. However, the lecturer believes otherwise and provides arguments to support his reasoning.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 234, 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.
... discouraging conflict and competition. The lecturer challenges this claim and give...
^^^
Line 5, column 263, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'speakers'' or 'speaker's'?
Suggestion: speakers'; speaker's
...petition is structured and healthy. The speakers counterargument to this argument is tha...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, while, in fact, such as, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 7.30242825607 246% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 54.0 30.3222958057 178% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 5.01324503311 299% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2152.0 1373.03311258 157% => OK
No of words: 402.0 270.72406181 148% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.35323383085 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47771567384 4.04702891845 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00600868522 2.5805825403 116% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 145.348785872 142% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.512437810945 0.540411800872 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 644.4 419.366225166 154% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 3.25607064018 307% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 13.0662251656 168% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 65.0304442372 49.2860985944 132% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.8181818182 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2727272727 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.59090909091 7.06452816374 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 4.33554083885 300% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.251993454589 0.272083759551 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0642162030526 0.0996497079465 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0613746767468 0.0662205650399 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141246967628 0.162205337803 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0480111374602 0.0443174109184 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.75 12.2367328918 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 63.6247240618 154% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 234, 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.
... discouraging conflict and competition. The lecturer challenges this claim and give...
^^^
Line 5, column 263, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'speakers'' or 'speaker's'?
Suggestion: speakers'; speaker's
...petition is structured and healthy. The speakers counterargument to this argument is tha...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, however, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, while, in fact, such as, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 10.4613686534 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 7.30242825607 246% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 14.0 12.0772626932 116% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 22.412803532 134% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 54.0 30.3222958057 178% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 5.01324503311 299% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2152.0 1373.03311258 157% => OK
No of words: 402.0 270.72406181 148% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.35323383085 5.08290768461 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47771567384 4.04702891845 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00600868522 2.5805825403 116% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 145.348785872 142% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.512437810945 0.540411800872 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 644.4 419.366225166 154% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 3.25607064018 307% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.51434878587 132% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 2.5761589404 233% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 13.0662251656 168% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 65.0304442372 49.2860985944 132% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.8181818182 110.228320801 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2727272727 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.59090909091 7.06452816374 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 4.33554083885 300% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.251993454589 0.272083759551 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0642162030526 0.0996497079465 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0613746767468 0.0662205650399 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.141246967628 0.162205337803 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0480111374602 0.0443174109184 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.3589403974 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.75 12.2367328918 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.42419426049 99% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 63.6247240618 154% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 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.