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TPO 06 - Question 3
History Seminars Should Be Shorter
Currently, all of the seminar classes in the history department are three hours long. I would like to propose that history seminars be shortened to two hours. I make this proposal for two reasons. First, most students just cannot concentrate for three hours straight. I myself have taken these three-hour seminars and found them tiring and sometimes boring. Also, when a seminar lasts that long, people stop concentrating and stop learning, so the third hour of a three-hour seminar is a waste of everyone‘s time. Two-hour seminars would be much more efficient.
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-02-23 | daniel8564 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-01 | Lee Shyu | 51.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-07-09 | bijan54 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-06-18 | wls1993 | 61.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-09-29 | Heer | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
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- Some people have one career throughout their lives. Other people do different kinds of work at different points in their lives. Which do you think is better? Explain why. 66
- In everyday life, when people speak of memory, they are almost always speaking about what psychologists would call explicit memories. An explicit memory is a conscious or intentional recollection, usually of facts, names, events, or other things that a pe 58
- Using points and examples from the lecture, explain the two major factors of product quality and how their role in consumer decision making has changed. 53
- Some people have one career throughout their lives. Other people do different kinds of work at different points in their lives. Which do you think is better? 60
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 580.0 593.389002037 98% => OK
No of words: 141.0 154.784114053 91% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 4.1134751773 3.82920900774 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.44591672665 3.52088357496 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.04936315512 1.81998168104 113% => OK
Unique words: 95.0 93.7942973523 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.673758865248 0.608046397892 111% => OK
Syllable count: 173.7 185.724439919 94% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.144770954596 0.0833886788687 174% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 9.0 3.90020366599 231% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 15.7777777778 71.3690273242 22% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 12.3897608064 24.1299301424 51% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 6.71666666667 26.8388033085 25% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 5.07773352765 8.89323425527 57% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 30.0 40.266802444 75% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.7 4.20756893501 112% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.53223253293 3.23972648638 109% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.863 1.51236819293 123% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.12399036176 1.0352206224 109% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 25.0 37.9022403259 66% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.51 7.22384928717 62% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.1804 0.193825474362 93% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.123692522005 0.16431695912 75% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 50.02 46.6644602851 107% => OK
Average word duration: 0.35475177305 0.304040633073 117% => OK
STD word duration: 0.201626652945 0.193491353168 104% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 13.0 8.88594704684 146% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 10.24 6.97134419552 147% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.17 3.21433808554 130% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 60.45 59.1375356415 102% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.0075 0.985625594026 102% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.413564929694 0.643888735843 64% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.33250620347 2.61565628039 89% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.57154673284 1.58604529434 99% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.89924030388 2.01333574461 94% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.516487404255 0.322651457988 160% => OK
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.