Some people say that students should study many lessons during a semester, but others say that it is better for students to just take three or four lessons. Which do you think is better?
A reasonable number of courses during a semester, the foundation of a quality education, has aroused discussions and even debates. In many people’s views, students should study many lessons during a semester. Contrary to these people’s opinions is my perspective that it is better for students to just take three or four lessons, because students are overwhelmed in class and after class. Additionally, if students have more spare time, they can allocate time and energy to other meaningful things.
What must be prioritized is that students are overloaded in class and after class. Students, fully engaged in school work, are unavailable for too many lessons. To be more specific, due to daily presentations, and excessive group projects, students find it laborious to study many lessons during a semester. On the other hand, not only do students distribute a great deal of time to academic learning, but they should be involved in extracurricular activities. In detail, the more frequently they participate in choruses, or attend pottery classes, the less they are likely to complete too many lessons. Take Anna, a medical student in Peking University, as an example, she usually struggles to learn burdensome medical courses in class, and after class, she should participate in voluntary work in hospitals. Although there are just three or four lessons to study, it is also very burdensome for Anna. She always works till very late at night.
What is equally worth discussing is that students can distribute time and energy to other meaningful things such as internship and journey. Internship provides an ideal platform for students to hone their time management skills, which are unavailable in school lessons. In detail, in the confrontation of several critical tasks during internship, students need label and arrange them in the order of urgency, and prioritize the ones in demand for instant attention. What’s more, during a journey, communicative skills, a crucial element factor in one’s personal and academic life, can be practiced. To be more specific, people from various backgrounds and cultures are accessible in a trip, where a set of interpersonal skills, including nonverbal communication, engaged listening and etiquette, can be cultivated. A research conducted by Harvard University, aiming to discover significant elements in one’s success, suggests that students should pay attention to both class work and after-class work for their future development. According to an interviewee, he used spare time to do internship in a big company, where he developed social skills as well as time management skills. So with the experience, he will be competitive in the future.
Students are overwhelmed in class and after class, so taking many lessons in a semester is laborious for them. What’s more, if students have more spare time, they can allocate time and energy to other meaningful things like doing an internship or taking a trip to cultivate social skills and time management skills. In conclusion, it is better for students to just take three or four classes during a semester.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so, well, in conclusion, of course, such as, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 15.1003584229 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 9.8082437276 122% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 13.8261648746 166% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.0286738351 63% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 43.0788530466 58% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 52.1666666667 130% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.0752688172 149% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2649.0 1977.66487455 134% => OK
No of words: 494.0 407.700716846 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.36234817814 4.8611393121 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71445763274 4.48103885553 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.03418067297 2.67179642975 114% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 212.727598566 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.481781376518 0.524837075471 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 831.6 618.680645161 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 7.0 3.08781362007 227% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 10.0 4.94265232975 202% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6003584229 112% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.6209084323 48.9658058833 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.173913043 100.406767564 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4782608696 20.6045352989 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.86956521739 5.45110844103 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.3360186201 0.236089414692 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.115756217996 0.076458572812 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.1132849814 0.0737576698707 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.263976331971 0.150856017488 175% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0998667545309 0.0645574589148 155% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 11.7677419355 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 58.1214874552 72% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 10.1575268817 125% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 10.9000537634 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.51 8.01818996416 106% => OK
difficult_words: 120.0 86.8835125448 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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