Nowadays, distance-learning programs have gained in popularity, but some people argue that courses can never be taken as good as those by attending a college or university in person. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
The advent of the Internet has changed people’s lives and working patterns. These days, an increasing number of people are considering adopting distance education, a system that allows them to complete a degree at home. Although this kind of education has some differences with traditional college education, it has its own advantages.
First of all, compared with traditional education, distance learning is more flexible, making it possible for more people to receive education. Students in distance-learning programs need to read relevant materials and they attend lectures by watching videos. When they have difficulties digesting the information given, they are free to push the pause button and replay the video as many times as they want, until they understand the content completely. Lectures in distance-education program are open 7/24 and it is therefore ideal for those who lead a hectic life, as long as they have access to the Internet.
In addition, as the distance education developing, interaction opportunities between students and lecturers are provided. Students can now use tools provided in the virtual classroom or send emails to ask questions. In this way, they can gain guidance from lecturers and finish the lectures with higher quality. Sometimes, they can even communicate with scholars from worldwide prestigious universities while they are at home.
One of the main drawbacks of such type of learning is that students have few chances to improve their soft skills, considering that group assignments are usually not included. Normally, distance-learning students complete their degrees on their own and hence they can hardly make new friends. As a result, their network of contacts cannot be expanded, which has a negative effect on their career development.
Distant education makes higher education more available, thanks to its flexibility. However, it does have some flaws, such as the lack of interaction, which make it unable to produce the same learning outcome as that of traditional college education.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, if, so, therefore, while, in addition, kind of, such as, as a result, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 24.0651302605 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 8.3376753507 264% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1752.0 1615.20841683 108% => OK
No of words: 316.0 315.596192385 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.54430379747 5.12529762239 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21620550194 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07730832876 2.80592935109 110% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.594936708861 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 538.2 506.74238477 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.10420841683 285% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.4094290871 49.4020404114 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.5 106.682146367 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.75 20.7667163134 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.875 7.06120827912 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.161916620843 0.244688304435 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0536742148433 0.084324248473 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0316379401388 0.0667982634062 47% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0845204686823 0.151304729494 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0176326282756 0.056905535591 31% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.85 12.4159519038 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.13 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 78.4519038076 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => 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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Note: 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.