The best way to teach is to praise positive actions and ignore negative ones
Teachers are often the next major influence in the lives of students after their parents. Therefore, any pedagogical approach taken by teachers is one likely to effect enduring results in the way students view the world. The prompt recommends that lauding positive actions and ignoring negative ones is the ideal way of instructing students. I strongly disagree with this for the following reasons.
Firstly, a teacher who praises positive actions whilst ignoring negative ones is more likely to give his or her students a warped sense of reality, one in which they go through life expecting others to extend the same magnanimous disposition towards their failings. For example, a young boy who from his early days in school, constantly had his good deeds extolled and his less than ideal actions ignored goes through early life as a guileless bundle of joy and excitement. He knows no other forms of reality and is convinced that this same feedback mechanism would continue to perpetuate all his life. Imagine his frustration then, when he goes into college or gets a job and suddenly, he has his flaws being pointed out. This would have an overarching negative effect on how this young man experiences life and he will continue to be disappointed by people's reactions to his failings.
Secondly, students who have their negative actions pointed out easily determine when there is room for improvement with regards to their performance. They have a perfect understanding of what is expected of them and are more suited to performing better in various endeavours be it in an academic or coporate setting. For instance, a young woman who has always been taught not only to focus on the good things she has done well, but also to constantly improve the areas she has performed below expectations will mature into a well functioning adult with a well developed view of expectations required of her. She is also more likely to take criticism well and better aspects of life that are below par. This will ultimately lead to a better sense of fulfillment as she goes through life.
However, there are certainly some draw backs in placing more emphasis on negative actions. Ideally, the best learning environments are ones in which students are comfortable and are receptive towards the teachings of their teachers. In a scenario whereby this environment is not in place, students may be apprehensive and experience self-doubt. To this, one can argue that "the end justifies the means". Is it not better for students to go through a bit of discomfort in their early life and be more geared towards facing the future than for them to be molly-cuddled early in life and struggle constantly while experience resentments towards the same teachers that endured their excesses? Indeed, they will be more grateful for the strictness of their childhood since the end would have justified the means.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 136, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...lly, the best learning environments are ones in which students are comfortable and a...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, well, while, for example, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 33.0505617978 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2423.0 2235.4752809 108% => OK
No of words: 480.0 442.535393258 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04791666667 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68069463864 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75784786136 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 244.0 215.323595506 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.508333333333 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 752.4 704.065955056 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.8883211032 60.3974514979 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.15 118.986275619 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0 23.4991977007 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.1 5.21951772744 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.187395313734 0.243740707755 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.060435649689 0.0831039109588 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.103594942038 0.0758088955206 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120834569287 0.150359130593 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0801158340348 0.0667264976115 120% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 14.1392134831 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 12.1639044944 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 100.480337079 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 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: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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