Writing Feedback / TOEFL ESSAY: should professors doing more research or educating students more? [5]

Some people think university professors should spend more time doing research while others think they should spend more time educating students. What is your view?

Although professors in a university are basically teachers who do the most important thing--- teaching, we cannot ignore one more influential aspect that they are always busy with--- doing research. In my opinion, a professor should spend more time doing research rather than educating students for a few reasons following.

A professor means a researcher or an expert of a specific science subject. He or she should always keep the passion in her field so that he or she could push him/herself forward all the time. And then he or she can do better in teaching works. For instance, the most impressive professor during my studying in university is Mr. Yang who keeps in researching and reading. He is also the one who gave us inspiration and taught us the way to study more efficient by ourselves. All of my classmates gave him a rank of AAA---the excellent teacher.

As for students, we can get what we want to know from textbooks, webs or teachers. But we can only turn to our professors when we want to take part in a research and to get ourselves promoted. If a professor doesn't get any researching works, he cannot give us the opportunity. In addition, a professor who is concentrate in his or her research is thinking and creating new ideas all the time. He or she may stimulate us students to come up with some creative sugesstions. That is good for both of the professor and students.

Finally, all professors in the university are fortune of the society. They are the leaders almost in every fields of science, arts, culture and so on. Without their research, there will be no new technologies come out quickly. Without their research, there will be more artcrafts being ruined by nothing. Without their research, there will be less information of our ancestors to be known on the earth.

In conclusion, a professor should do their research all the time during their careers as a teacher in university. And it's worth to spend more time on it than on teaching.

Writing Feedback / TOEFL iBT ESSAY: ONE SHOULD LISTEN TO OTHERS OR NOT IN TEAM WORK [5]

Although one should get his/her own independent view on problems and be able to finish his/her own work by him/herself, it will be different when it comes to a team work. For my part, one should listen to others in the group in order to achieve the goal easier and better.

First of all, everyone makes mistakes; even the best leader could make a wrong decision. Especially in a team work, the person who controls the power of determination always stays in a condition that is not stable enough to tell a question appropriately. He/she may be tricked by the opponents or be too excited to go the right way. So listening to the partners is definitely a must.

In addition, as a team, we need every one to make a success. If all the members in the team listen to themselves only, the work will never be done. We need import the democracy to the team work, which means all the staff takes part in the process of making a plan and choosing a way to go. All for one, one for all.

Finally, nowadays we usually get in big problems that are so complex that several people cannot handle well. Cooperation is what we need the most to get things done. For instance, one is professional at the operating of machines but he cannot read the Japanese introduction, so he needs to listen to the one who can read Japanese well. For a better end, listening and communicating is an inevitable thing to work in a tremendous team.

From what I have discussed above, we can easily come to the conclusion that it is necessary to give opportunities to others to express their opinions. Listening to others is a must.