Groupwork in Universities

Topic: Groupwork in Universities

INTRODUCTIONGroupwork is more and more popular in most universities nowadays. It aims at giving students chances to work cooperatively to better their results as well as experience and skills. Therefore, it is one of the most important kinds of working arrangement used in university learning. To some people, it is not necessary to let students work in groups because it often takes them more time than working in individual. However, we think, groupwork should not be abolished in universities because of the three following reasons.

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Paragraph 1: Students have opportunities to share and learn from each other

+ knowledge + experience + attitude

Paragraph 2: Groupwork is an effective means of dividing the workload

+ reduce the individual workload. + save time to accomplish

- support each other in working

Paragraph 3: Students have more chances to develop soft skills with groupwork

+ co-operation + leadership + time management + giving comments and feedback

Paragraph 4: Refutation

Many people, in contrast, do not approve of groupwork in universities it is time-consuming if students have to