Some universities now offer their courses on the Internet so that people can study online.
Is this a positive or negative development?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
Write at least 250 words.
In the era of cutting-edge technology, a considerable number of educational institutes launch online curriculum, which enables students to study on the Internet. Although online tuition is proved to be beneficial, they entail certain drawbacks which should not be ignored. This essay will shed some light on the pros and cons of online learning.
It goes without denying that computer-based courses exert significant merits to students and teachers. One of the most noticeable advantages that would be that the Internet provides learners and teachers with convenience and efficiency. By way of illustration, they could have intermediate access to any available given sources of the course such as class announcements, assignments and so forth. Another virtue would be that internet-based learning offers more individual attention to your lecturers. A multitude of students have a fear of asking directly to teachers due to the uncomfortability, which makes them slip the chance of grasping a deep comprehension. Therefore, the online platform gives students a direct pipeline to the instructors to facilitate their inquiries.
In stark contrast, the online studying also causes certain downsides. The principle drawback associated with this development is creating a sense of isolation. To be specific, the chances of getting involved in face-to-face communication with lecturers and peers are less owing to the fact that learners are exposed at high frequency to computers. There is another dark side of internet-based courses is the increase of procrastination. This is because there is no one preaching at students that the assignments are due and they have to stay on top of tasks. As a result, their academic performance gradually deteriorates because of not being-self disciplined as well as overlooking assigned activities by teachers.
In conclusion, although online courses may bring several merits, it is my contention that its demerits should not be underestimated. Whether it is beneficial or harmful really depends on the way people use it.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, look, may, really, so, therefore, well, in conclusion, such as, as a result, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.3376753507 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1750.0 1615.20841683 108% => OK
No of words: 315.0 315.596192385 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.55555555556 5.12529762239 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21286593061 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.33842996608 2.80592935109 119% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 176.041082164 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.6 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 543.6 506.74238477 107% => 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: 6.0 2.52805611222 237% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 34.8254172779 49.4020404114 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.941176471 106.682146367 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5294117647 20.7667163134 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.70588235294 7.06120827912 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.158603276068 0.244688304435 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0482494621421 0.084324248473 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0275896312457 0.0667982634062 41% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0877290190611 0.151304729494 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0220199504915 0.056905535591 39% => 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: 14.0 13.0946893788 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 50.2224549098 89% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.97 12.4159519038 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.69 8.58950901804 113% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 78.4519038076 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 9.78957915832 107% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => 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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