Some people think that schools should use teaching methods that encourage students to cooperate. Other people think that schools should use teaching methods that encourage students to compete. Discuss both views and give your opinion.
The debate over the issue of choosing the way of education in schools has not been put to rest. This begs the question: is studying in groups preferable in today's world? While cooperation reveals several advantages for both teachers and pupils, I still firmly believe that encouraging students to compete is a more beneficial approach in this case.
Several reasons are at the root of the opinion why competition between students is more rewarding. The main one is that this type of education provides better results for pupils and, thus, a higher score of them. This is because when you are in a challenge you face a real competitor, and, as a consequence, you want to win – it is one of the basic feelings of men. Another reason is that this way helps to acquire knowledge faster. In my experience, once, when I was in school almost twenty years ago, I had an individual-task challenge in Math in which I won. Not only do I remember the details of this contest precisely, but I also have a clear image of some mathematical theorems. Had it not been the case, I would not have remembered it so well.
According to the other school of thought, the cooperation between students has its advantages as well. It has been claimed that when pupils cooperate with each other while studying they develop their communicative skills which are pretty important nowadays. This method particularly useful for shy pupils. It broadens their interaction horizons. In addition, it appears that this is very useful for teachers too. This is due to the fact that it is just simpler for a teacher to give a task for a group and then to check it. So, this makes the learning process easier.
Having said that, cooperative method of studying brings an overall advantage in today's society. Therefore, in my opinion, its utilization should be encouraged. Not only helps it to develop strong personal skills, but it also allows us to study faster.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, so, still, then, therefore, thus, well, while, in addition, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 24.0651302605 191% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 41.998997996 90% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1600.0 1615.20841683 99% => OK
No of words: 334.0 315.596192385 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.79041916168 5.12529762239 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27500489853 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73142516346 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.565868263473 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 499.5 506.74238477 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 5.43587174349 239% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 16.0721442886 124% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.7662547786 49.4020404114 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 80.0 106.682146367 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.7 20.7667163134 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.2 7.06120827912 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 8.67935871743 184% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.128100245632 0.244688304435 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.037818398515 0.084324248473 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0429397111211 0.0667982634062 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0782330606294 0.151304729494 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0248235706178 0.056905535591 44% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.5 13.0946893788 73% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 50.2224549098 127% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.3001002004 74% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.21 12.4159519038 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.07 8.58950901804 94% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 78.4519038076 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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