Some universities offer online courses as an alternative to classes delivered on campus. Do you think this is a positive or negative development?
With the breakthroughs of technological advances, online learning has been becoming increasingly prevalent in several universities, gradually replacing the existence of on-campus classes. From my perspective, although this transformation might trigger some plausible downsides, I believe that online university courses are a positive modification.
There are several drawbacks concerned with online university courses that cannot be overlooked. One of the most irrefutable disadvantages is less direct interaction among students. This is because undergraduates might lack group works, which, in turn, leads to a deterioration in interpersonal skills of students who rely on internet-based classes. Another unanticipated problem of learning through online platforms is to distract students’ attention. To be more specific, online platforms tend to contain an array of commercial advertisements that catch people’s attention. As a result, those eye-catching pop-ups might lose learners’ attention easily, which might exacerbate learners’ academic performance.
Despite the downsides described above, it is my firm conviction that offering online courses is beneficial to students. First and foremost, students might take advantage of lower tuition fees that stem from online classes. While face-to-face classes require tertiary students to pay for electricity and annual maintenance fees that accelerate tuition fees, online university courses might ask students to clear course registration and internet fares solely. Consequently, online courses will facilitate students to steer clear of squandering money for their academic purposes. In tandem with this, what online university courses might completely benefit students is to aid them to stay away from potential infection. COVID-19, for instance, has forced millions of undergraduates to attend online classes, which, in turn, contributed to curbing the spread of this virus and protecting student’s life.
In conclusion, although the gradual shift from traditional classes to online university courses might trigger some hurdles for students, I assume that this is a positive trend towards future learning.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, if, look, so, while, as for, for instance, in conclusion, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 10.4138276553 38% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 24.0651302605 83% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 41.998997996 102% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 8.3376753507 192% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1879.0 1615.20841683 116% => OK
No of words: 303.0 315.596192385 96% => OK
Chars per words: 6.20132013201 5.12529762239 121% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.24047707187 2.80592935109 115% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 176.041082164 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.610561056106 0.561755894193 109% => OK
syllable_count: 571.5 506.74238477 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.9 1.60771543086 118% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.0917516333 49.4020404114 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.266666667 106.682146367 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2 20.7667163134 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.33333333333 7.06120827912 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.243683311005 0.244688304435 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0866648070208 0.084324248473 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0658740666838 0.0667982634062 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.170272956428 0.151304729494 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0471086474549 0.056905535591 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.9 13.0946893788 137% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 25.8 50.2224549098 51% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 11.3001002004 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 18.68 12.4159519038 150% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.2 8.58950901804 119% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 78.4519038076 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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