Some people think that children should be taught to be competitive in school. Others, however, say that co-operation and team working skills are more important. Discuss both the views and give your opinion.
It is believed by some that competitive skills be taught to children at school; whereas the skills to work as a team and to be co-operative are weighed more than any other skills by others. If competitive skills allow children to improve its performance on whatever it engages with, team working skills and co-operative skills enable students to socialize more easily.
On the one hand, some parents want schools to teach competitive skills since it improve a student’s overall performance. Competing with one another, be it in an exam or any sports, makes children to realise their mistakes for lagging behind and their levels of performance. This, in turn, will help the student to work-out a plan on areas they need correction to achieve their goal. In Finland, all the schools had submitted a report in 1980, in which they reported a positive correltion between the competitive nature and the progression of a student in any educational activities. Therefore, schools have the duty to teach certain skills to students to compete.
On the other hand, others believe in a skill that helps students to co-operate with others to work as a team, as it has shown to help students socialize with ease. Being in a team, taking responsibility for some amount of work, and engaging with the other members of the team in co-ordinated manner, inevitably, improves a student’s confidence and ability to get along with fellow mates, nevertheless. This is supported by a study conducted by Oxford University, in which they claim that as more the number of hours students made to work as a team, their levels of confidence to mingle with others increases sharply. Thus, stressing the need for co-operation and team work skills to be taught in schools.
In conclusion, people support the idea of teaching competitive skills in schools as it makes students progress by increasing their outcome, but others want students to learn team working skills to improve their socializing behaviour. In my opinion, a student need to learn any skill, whether it is competitive or co-operative skills, that helps them to be more productive.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to team'
Suggestion: to team
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, nevertheless, so, therefore, thus, whereas, in conclusion, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 41.998997996 155% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1784.0 1615.20841683 110% => OK
No of words: 351.0 315.596192385 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08262108262 5.12529762239 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32839392791 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94409398383 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 176.041082164 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.472934472934 0.561755894193 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 541.8 506.74238477 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 27.0 20.2975951904 133% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 51.0763438336 49.4020404114 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.230769231 106.682146367 129% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.0 20.7667163134 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.69230769231 7.06120827912 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 3.4128256513 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.324847817583 0.244688304435 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.150797071897 0.084324248473 179% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.119421374075 0.0667982634062 179% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.246539825521 0.151304729494 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.112924833149 0.056905535591 198% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 13.0946893788 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 50.2224549098 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 12.4159519038 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.58950901804 97% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 78.4519038076 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 9.78957915832 143% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.1190380762 126% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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