The reading and the lecture are both about group projects, and how they can be good and bad. The author of the reading believes that group projects are good. The lecturer casts doubts made on the claims in the article. He thinks that team projects can make the projects harder.
First of all, the author points out that the group would have more knowledge. It is mentioned that the more people there are, the more thoughts there would be. This point is challenged by the lecturer. He says that the groups may have more knowledge, but they might not work well together. Furthermore, he argues that the groups would argue about whose ideas are better.
Secondly the author contends that the group members would feel very good about themselves. The article notes that the people who make the decisions would feel very good. The lecturer rebuts this argument. He states that although the person might feel good, there are people who did not participate at all. She elaborates on this by mentioning that the people who did not participate would feel good too, because they did not do anything, but got a good score.
Finally the author elaborates this by mentioning that the score would be overall better. The article states that you would have more people, who may be smart, eventually leading to a good score. The lecturer on the other hand says that the scores may not satisfy others. He puts forth the idea, by stating that some people may not feel good, because they did most of the work meanwhile some did nothing.
- A little over 2 200 years ago the Roman navy attached the Greek port city of Syracuse According to some ancient historians the Greeks defended themselves with an ingenious weapon called a burning mirror a polished copper surface curved to focus 84
- A little over 2 200 years ago the Roman navy attached the Greek port city of Syracuse According to some ancient historians the Greeks defended themselves with an ingenious weapon called a burning mirror a polished copper surface curved to focus 88
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement One should never judge a person by external appearances Use specific reasons and details to support your answer 83
- Which one of the following values is the most important to share with a young child 5 10 years old 1 Being helpful 2 Being honest 3 Being well organized 73
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Parents today are more involved in their children’s education than were parents in the past.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer. 60
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 159, 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.
... believes that group projects are good. The lecturer casts doubts made on the claim...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Finally,
... do anything, but got a good score. Finally the author elaborates this by mentionin...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, may, second, secondly, so, well, while, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 5.04856512141 317% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 12.0772626932 157% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 18.0 30.3222958057 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1263.0 1373.03311258 92% => OK
No of words: 266.0 270.72406181 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.74812030075 5.08290768461 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.03850299372 4.04702891845 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.1756526147 2.5805825403 84% => OK
Unique words: 123.0 145.348785872 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.462406015038 0.540411800872 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 368.1 419.366225166 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 21.2450331126 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 27.9512914077 49.2860985944 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 70.1666666667 110.228320801 64% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.7777777778 21.698381199 68% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.83333333333 7.06452816374 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 4.33554083885 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.27373068433 70% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.272459484011 0.272083759551 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.095037420095 0.0996497079465 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0562545875089 0.0662205650399 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.174165583105 0.162205337803 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0435870570387 0.0443174109184 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.3 13.3589403974 62% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 74.19 53.8541721854 138% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.4 11.0289183223 58% => Flesch kincaid grade is low.
coleman_liau_index: 9.68 12.2367328918 79% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.94 8.42419426049 82% => OK
difficult_words: 44.0 63.6247240618 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 5.0 10.7273730684 47% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.498013245 72% => OK
text_standard: 7.0 11.2008830022 62% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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