Nowadays, it is as important to teach students soft skills as it is to teach them subject knowledge. To what extent do you agree/disagree with this opinion?
Recently, there has been heated debate over the importance of soft skills and whether they should be taught equally to academic subjects. Personally, I believe that although having academic knowledge will enable students to prosper in the future, leadership and interpersonal skills are crucial for interacting and communicating with others - another success attribute.
On the one hand, academic education has a tangible benefit: improving general intelligence. To begin with, the study of subjects such as Mathematics and Science is proven to enhance one’s cognitive thinking and problem-solving, while the study of social and humanities subjects is bound to improve one’s understanding of society, history, and an actual understanding of one’s life. This knowledge plays an important role in the student's future. Society, in general, tends to admire those with expertise. When applying for a job, for instance, candidates who have impressive academic records are certain to catch the recruiters' attention.
Vital to a successful career are not only academics but also noncognitive skills as these put knowledge into use. It is common for parents, particularly Asian parents to overemphasize academics over soft skills, thus neglecting their offspring’s ability to communicate, manage time, etc. As a result, many students are not capable of expressing themselves or their ideas to others despite having the knowledge to do so, leading to poor teamwork and conflict-resolution capabilities. Another soft skill that a majority of youngsters lack is time management where they do not know how to sort out work, resulting in exhaustion at the end of the day.
In conclusion, unlike hard skills that are learned, soft skills are similar to emotions or insights that allow people to “read” others. In a traditional classroom, these are much more difficult to learn; nonetheless, schools should implement extracurricular activities that promote communication and leadership among students into the curriculum alongside traditional subjects since both are fundamental for them to prosper in the future and enable them to have comfortable lives.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 343, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...eracting and communicating with others - another success attribute. On the one...
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Line 3, column 303, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...nities subjects is bound to improve one’s understanding of society, history, and an actual unde...
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Line 3, column 617, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'recruiters'' or 'recruiter's'?
Suggestion: recruiters'; recruiter's
...ademic records are certain to catch the recruiters attention. Vital to a successful ca...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, nonetheless, so, thus, while, as to, for instance, in conclusion, in general, such as, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1838.0 1615.20841683 114% => OK
No of words: 324.0 315.596192385 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.67283950617 5.12529762239 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24264068712 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.21589837633 2.80592935109 115% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 176.041082164 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.626543209877 0.561755894193 112% => OK
syllable_count: 579.6 506.74238477 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => 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: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 81.8483949953 49.4020404114 166% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.384615385 106.682146367 133% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.9230769231 20.7667163134 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.84615384615 7.06120827912 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
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: 0.200552957367 0.244688304435 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0688751182119 0.084324248473 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0472463794061 0.0667982634062 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.116085068712 0.151304729494 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0131218856899 0.056905535591 23% => 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: 17.7 13.0946893788 135% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.2 50.2224549098 60% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 11.3001002004 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.9 12.4159519038 128% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.09 8.58950901804 117% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 78.4519038076 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 16.0 9.78957915832 163% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.7795591182 148% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 343, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...eracting and communicating with others - another success attribute. On the one...
^^
Line 3, column 303, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...nities subjects is bound to improve one’s understanding of society, history, and an actual unde...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 617, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'recruiters'' or 'recruiter's'?
Suggestion: recruiters'; recruiter's
...ademic records are certain to catch the recruiters attention. Vital to a successful ca...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, nonetheless, so, thus, while, as to, for instance, in conclusion, in general, such as, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 7.85571142285 38% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 24.0651302605 75% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1838.0 1615.20841683 114% => OK
No of words: 324.0 315.596192385 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.67283950617 5.12529762239 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24264068712 4.20363070211 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.21589837633 2.80592935109 115% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 176.041082164 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.626543209877 0.561755894193 112% => OK
syllable_count: 579.6 506.74238477 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => 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: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 81.8483949953 49.4020404114 166% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.384615385 106.682146367 133% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.9230769231 20.7667163134 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.84615384615 7.06120827912 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
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: 0.200552957367 0.244688304435 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0688751182119 0.084324248473 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0472463794061 0.0667982634062 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.116085068712 0.151304729494 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0131218856899 0.056905535591 23% => 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: 17.7 13.0946893788 135% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.2 50.2224549098 60% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 11.3001002004 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.9 12.4159519038 128% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.09 8.58950901804 117% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 78.4519038076 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 16.0 9.78957915832 163% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.7795591182 148% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.