The reading passage lists some benefits of a team project work. And the lecturer argues with the advantages mentioned in the reading on the basis of data on actual results of some project groups in one company.
First advantage mentioned in the reading is that the group of people has a wider range of knowledge and expertise than an individual usually possesses. And as far as it's many people involved they have more resources therefore they are able to come with solution much faster than can be done on individual basis. The lecturer refers to practical examples when group didn't move with any solutions for a months because they could not come to consensus and had to run many meetings to build the agreement.
In addition to concern on speed of group work the lecturer also doubts the efficiency of result talking about problems with motivation for the groups. For example, it was observed that some groups who did the good job did not get any reward, or also it was few cases when recognition was done for entire group and people who were actually leading there with ideas were not rewarded and they felt demotivated.
Secondly, the reading stated that group solutions are more likely to be more creative than individually elaborated solutions, because responsibility in the groups is split equally to all members and they do not afraid to take a bold decisions. The lecturer debates the efficiency of this using the example of the group where couple of leaders turned entire group to move to very risky way by convincing them that this way was very creative. Later on, when time and resources were spent, and risky decision led them nowhere, all of the members were responsible for the failure.
Comparing the reading with examples giving in lecture, it seems to be that team work on projects is not so obviously effective and it depends on the angle of consideration meaning that it can be effective in one circumstances and can fail in others in same way like it may happen with individual work on projects as well.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 366, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...refers to practical examples when group didnt move with any solutions for a months be...
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Line 3, column 400, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a month' or simply 'months'?
Suggestion: a month; months
...group didnt move with any solutions for a months because they could not come to consensu...
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Line 6, column 525, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...t, and risky decision led them nowhere, all of the members were responsible for the failur...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, first, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, for example, in addition, talking about
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 : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 30.3222958057 165% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1688.0 1373.03311258 123% => OK
No of words: 351.0 270.72406181 130% => OK
Chars per words: 4.80911680912 5.08290768461 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32839392791 4.04702891845 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56005695406 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 145.348785872 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.509971509972 0.540411800872 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 538.2 419.366225166 128% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.23620309051 49% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 31.0 21.2450331126 146% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 66.8010491331 49.2860985944 136% => OK
Chars per sentence: 153.454545455 110.228320801 139% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.9090909091 21.698381199 147% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.63636363636 7.06452816374 136% => 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 : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => 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: 0.445113043282 0.272083759551 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.161116582942 0.0996497079465 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0674218837206 0.0662205650399 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.221831831529 0.162205337803 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0760466807337 0.0443174109184 172% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.2 13.3589403974 129% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.47 53.8541721854 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.0289183223 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.21 12.2367328918 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.0 8.42419426049 107% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 63.6247240618 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.7273730684 98% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 10.498013245 137% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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