Universities and colleges are now offering qualifications through distance learning from the Internet rather than teachers in the classroom. Do you think the advantages of this development overweight the disadvantages?
Distance learning has recently gained significant tractions in the tertiary education. Nevertheless, many people doubt on the effectiveness of distance learning as compare to the conventional way of teaching. In my opinion, the drawbacks of this development are greater than the benefits.
There are several benefits on distance learning. The main advantage is students will have the ultimate flexibility on the schedule. Therefore, students are able to manage their time wisely to fit in their free time. Besides, they can literally study in anywhere around the world due to the nature of the course. In addition, distance learning enables students to skip some of the modules which is already known by them.
With the great flexibility of distance learning, it comes with numerous drawbacks that prevent students to excel in the course. Firstly, the lack of active discussion with lecturers and peers will result in a slow progress and undesirable learning. In addition, teachers might provide real case examples during the lectures which benefits students in the process of understanding. Distance learners are not able to enjoy this treatment. Lastly, students that are lazy will ended up spending lesser time than the course required as there were no lecturers to monitor their progress. As a result, their might not complete the course on time.
To conclude, although distance learning might be beneficial to certain group of students, majority of the students still prefer the traditional way of teaching as it involves in a two way discussion between students and lecturers.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...tance learning enables students to skip some of the modules which is already known by them....
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Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'end'
Suggestion: end
...nt. Lastly, students that are lazy will ended up spending lesser time than the course...
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Message: Consider replacing "in a two way" with adverb for "two"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...ditional way of teaching as it involves in a two way discussion between students and lecture...
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Discourse Markers used:
['besides', 'first', 'firstly', 'if', 'lastly', 'nevertheless', 'so', 'still', 'therefore', 'in addition', 'as a result', 'in my opinion']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.274368231047 0.247107183377 111% => OK
Verbs: 0.129963898917 0.155533422707 84% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0830324909747 0.0946595960268 88% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0397111913357 0.0501214627716 79% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0324909747292 0.0437548338989 74% => OK
Prepositions: 0.140794223827 0.122226691241 115% => OK
Participles: 0.028880866426 0.0403226058552 72% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.84422221354 2.80594681477 101% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0361010830325 0.0326793684256 110% => OK
Particles: 0.00361010830325 0.00163938923432 220% => OK
Determiners: 0.101083032491 0.0861772015684 117% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0252707581227 0.021408717616 118% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.014440433213 0.011925033212 121% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1591.0 1933.35771543 82% => OK
No of words: 250.0 316.048096192 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.364 6.12580529183 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.97635364384 4.20517956788 95% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.42 0.374742101984 112% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.368 0.28420135186 129% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.304 0.203846283523 149% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.14 0.137316102897 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84422221354 2.80594681477 101% => OK
Unique words: 141.0 176.037074148 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.564 0.56093040696 101% => OK
Word variations: 55.9482187495 60.7387585426 92% => OK
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0891783567 93% => OK
Sentence length: 16.6666666667 20.7743622355 80% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.1509531796 49.517814964 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.066666667 127.492653851 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.6666666667 20.7743622355 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.8 0.814263465372 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38877755511 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 3.99599198397 75% => OK
Readability: 53.4666666667 49.1944974215 109% => OK
Elegance: 2.19642857143 1.69124875643 130% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.422703301344 0.332605444948 127% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.104779677409 0.102741220458 102% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0610128826285 0.0668466124924 91% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.530933988813 0.534860350844 99% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.176734090951 0.148594505496 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.196823795963 0.134430193775 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0920103980363 0.0742795772207 124% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.45205406445 0.324371583561 139% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.057561763783 0.0638462369009 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.323485912624 0.228012699653 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0819315791566 0.058150111329 141% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.68436873747 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.41683366733 88% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 5.90881763527 118% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 2.5751503006 78% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 1.9629258517 102% => OK
Total topic words: 11.0 10.4468937876 105% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.