Some universities offer online courses as an alternative to classes delivered on campus. Do you think this is a positive or negative development?

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Some universities offer online courses as an alternative to classes delivered on campus. Do you think this is a positive or negative development?

The idea that universities should use online course rather than teach students on campus remains a source of controversy. I think that both approaches have their own merits and should each play an integral role in education field.

On the one hand, studying on campus has a pivotal role to play. Firstly, it will create a highly competitive studying environment at school, seeing students often desire to win prizes. As a result, they will be encouraged to put their endeavor into studying to get high scores. Secondly, youngsters could be more sociable. For example, the richness of experience that they will gain from enjoying at school, enabling them to blend into classes and avoid social isolation.

On the other hand, the online course method must not be underestimated. The first reason is that it will relieve pressure on students. Young students do not know the academic result of others. This form of studying follows the holistic principle of learning, which is to access the world of knowledge, not just to gain scores. Another reason is that they will be able to access a range of knowledge on the Internet. Armed with broader perspective, it will be easier for them to gain a mutual understanding with people across the world.

In conclusion, while studying at school has its own benefits, I would argue that online course method is a positive development.

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Average: 4.7 (4 votes)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, second, secondly, so, while, for example, i think, in conclusion, as a result, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 2.0 10.4138276553 19% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 41.998997996 79% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.3376753507 60% => More nominalization wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1150.0 1615.20841683 71% => OK
No of words: 230.0 315.596192385 73% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89432290496 4.20363070211 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71499372491 2.80592935109 97% => OK
Unique words: 139.0 176.041082164 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.604347826087 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 343.8 506.74238477 68% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The sentence length is short
Sentence length SD: 31.7792128182 49.4020404114 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 82.1428571429 106.682146367 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.4285714286 20.7667163134 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.0 7.06120827912 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.126511408733 0.244688304435 52% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0413727360761 0.084324248473 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0464341519692 0.0667982634062 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0859423681497 0.151304729494 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.047517101082 0.056905535591 84% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.3 13.0946893788 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 50.2224549098 127% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 11.3001002004 74% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.42 12.4159519038 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 61.0 78.4519038076 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 9.78957915832 72% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Minimum 250 words wanted.

Rates: 56.1797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 9
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