Q14. 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 outweigh the disadvantages?
Recently, the impact of remote education on university and college students has become the subject of heated debate. Some people assert that although there are some advantages to earning a degree through distance reading for students, these are exceeded by the disadvantages, while others argue otherwise. Personally, I wholeheartedly agree with the former stance. In the following essay, both views will be discussed before a conclusion is reached with my opinion.
On the one hand, those who claim that university and college students can benefit a great deal from receiving tertiary education on the Internet do so for several reasons. Proponents of this argument insist that the introduction of distance learning has revolutionised the way students attend their classes with greater ease regardless of time and place considering that having access to the Internet is the sole requirement. In addition, students are able to save time as they do not need to commuting to and from school. In fact, travelling to and from school often deprives students huge amounts of time and energy that would otherwise spent on dedication to their studies.
My opinion, however, is that the drawbacks of receiving higher education on the Internet are more significant. Perhaps the principal disadvantage is that university and college are more likely to struggle to have a tight grasp of their majors since students often have difficulty receiving instant feedback and advice from their professors, which can even exert a detrimental influence on their academic performance. Furthermore, if it were not for face-to-face lectures for students, it would be nearly impossible for them to build strong relationships with their colleagues as well as senior students helping them to develop interpersonal skills that will be invaluable in their future careers. This is mainly because they are incapable of mingling with their classmates in person, which may hinder them from feeling a sense of belonging to their schools and enhancing their bonds.
In conclusion, it is undeniable that there are a variety of opinions about this topic. However, after considering this matter in a careful manner, I fully support the view that the drawbacks of gaining a bachelor's or master's degree through remote education surpass the benefits for the reasons discussed above.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
furthermore, however, if, may, so, well, while, in addition, in conclusion, in fact, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 7.30460921844 178% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 24.0651302605 158% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 58.0 41.998997996 138% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.3376753507 156% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1985.0 1615.20841683 123% => OK
No of words: 369.0 315.596192385 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.37940379404 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38284983912 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89581074077 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 176.041082164 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.560975609756 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 621.0 506.74238477 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 20.2975951904 128% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 74.1340484721 49.4020404114 150% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.785714286 106.682146367 133% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3571428571 20.7667163134 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.78571428571 7.06120827912 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => 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: 0.146869403606 0.244688304435 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0500622808681 0.084324248473 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0341466006213 0.0667982634062 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0865628917307 0.151304729494 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0326955383671 0.056905535591 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.1 13.0946893788 131% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 50.2224549098 73% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 11.3001002004 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.22 12.4159519038 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.46 8.58950901804 110% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 78.4519038076 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.1190380762 123% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 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.