Both the reading and listening discuss working in groups. The reading provides three advantages of working in teams. The lecturer casts doubts on the claims made in the article. He thinks that it is inferior in each of author's reasons.
The first benefit of working in groups is that there are a variety of information, sources which come from different people. Therefore, they can give out quick and creative solutions to issues they may confront with. This is challenged by the professor. He argues that some projects may take so long for every member to reach agreement. They may have some disagreement which make it longer to resolve small tasks. Whereas, individuals do not need to convince anyone to start developing their ideas.
The second area of advantage the article mentions is risky decisions which are made by groups. Every member in a group will present one overall idea so they are likely to have creative solutions due to no specific responsibility in a team. However, the professor argues that some influential people in groups may have more power over the rest. They sometimes make wrong decisions to foster adverse ideas. Furthermore, they may refuse good ideas which may counter with them. This can lead to the failure of the whole team even though some warnings are given by some member. As a result, this won't helpful to work in teams.
Last but not least, the article asserts that the impact of group success are far-reaching than individuals in the sense that it is the result of a big community. The professor, on the other hand, contends that some members do not usually devote themselves to projects. Nevertheless, some people work hard to attain the rewards. Those hard-working people do not feel fair comparing to lazy members. In other words. working in groups do not totally benefit the whole team.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 414, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Whereas” 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.
... make it longer to resolve small tasks. Whereas, individuals do not need to convince an...
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Line 4, column 414, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Working
...paring to lazy members. In other words. working in groups do not totally benefit the wh...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, so, therefore, whereas, as a result, in other words, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.4613686534 96% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 7.30242825607 41% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 22.412803532 112% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 30.3222958057 142% => 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: 1524.0 1373.03311258 111% => OK
No of words: 310.0 270.72406181 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.91612903226 5.08290768461 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19604776685 4.04702891845 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56697184108 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 145.348785872 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.567741935484 0.540411800872 105% => OK
syllable_count: 467.1 419.366225166 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 3.25607064018 307% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.23620309051 85% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 13.0662251656 176% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 21.2450331126 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.1490304996 49.2860985944 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 66.2608695652 110.228320801 60% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.4782608696 21.698381199 62% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.86956521739 7.06452816374 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 4.33554083885 277% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.332407221821 0.272083759551 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0802602253509 0.0996497079465 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0618833497782 0.0662205650399 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.182107502067 0.162205337803 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0895264274297 0.0443174109184 202% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.5 13.3589403974 64% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 66.74 53.8541721854 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 11.0289183223 65% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.66 12.2367328918 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.42419426049 96% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 63.6247240618 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.0 10.7273730684 47% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.2 10.498013245 69% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 71.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.5 Out of 30
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