In the past, lectures were used as a way of teaching large numbers of students, but now with the development of technology for education, many people think there is no justification for attending lectures. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?
It is widely acknowledged that lectures were used to teach many students at the same time. However, in this day and age, the development of educational technology leads to much controversy as to whether students need to participate in lectures or not. From my point of view, I am utterly convinced that it is unnecessary to attend lectures nowadays.
First and foremost, the most frequent drawback of teaching by lectures is that students do not pay their attention during all the time listening to these speeches. Indeed, scientists consensus that there is a decline in students’ attention after 10-15 minutes of a presentation. In reality, it is common that a lecture usually lasts for more or less than 45 minutes, which contributes to the distraction of students. In contrast, modern technologies allow students to study at their own pace, which is suitable for their study and their level.
In addition, another negative aspect of lectures in education is that students mainly have to study by listening. This results in the fact the information from these cannot be restrained for a long time. Frankly, studies in this field have shown that after ten-minutes of a presentation listeners only remember 50% of what was said. By the next day that had dropped to 25%, and a week later it was 10%. Meanwhile, educational technologies give people chances to store information needed from various resources, which encourages their brain to remember for a long period. Therefore, it is clear that lectures are not as convenient as modern technologies.
Given the aforementioned points, it may be concluded that attending lectures is absolutely less beneficial, to gain information or stud,y in comparison with using technologies. Consequently, from my viewpoint, there is no need to join lectures nowadays.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, frankly, however, may, so, therefore, while, as to, in addition, in contrast, more or less
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 7.30460921844 178% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 24.0651302605 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1524.0 1615.20841683 94% => OK
No of words: 292.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.21917808219 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13376432452 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.08039521461 2.80592935109 110% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 176.041082164 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.571917808219 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 468.0 506.74238477 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.2645913768 49.4020404114 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.6 106.682146367 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4666666667 20.7667163134 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.73333333333 7.06120827912 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 3.4128256513 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.300327237358 0.244688304435 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0924404932069 0.084324248473 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0518063925128 0.0667982634062 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17905801628 0.151304729494 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0474830274573 0.056905535591 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 13.0946893788 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 50.2224549098 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.8 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 78.4519038076 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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