Some universities now offer their courses on the Internet so that people can study online. Is this a positive or negative development?
It is true that online learning is becoming a common feature of tertiary education. Although there are several disadvantages of provide online courses for students, I would argue that this trend is far more beneficial.
There are some drawbacks when universities offer internet-based learning for participants. Firstly, students may not lack the direct interactions with their teachers and peers while discussing and exchanging ideas, which means they heavily reply on written form of communication. If students come up with the problems, they will not know how to solve the problems without the direct guidance of their teachers. Secondly, due to the available resources on the internet, students waste their time seeking for the materials for their lessons. Online learning, therefore, poses a heavy pressure and burden on learners that leads to the anxiety and depression for them.
Despite the negatives mentioned above, I believe that joining online courses brings a wide range of merits for learners. Unlike students on traditional courses, online students are able to have access immediately to the lectures that they do not need to travel too far to school.
Furthermore, it is also convenient for them that they will have a flexible way to study because they can choose the most appropriate time, which suits their schedule. Finally, online courses create great opportunities for people to learn regardless of age, ability or background. For instance, my aunt, who is 60 years old, has enrolled on an MBA program in a different country that would have been impossible before internet-based education.
In conclusion, while I recognize the limitations of learning on the virtual platform, I consider it to be a generally positive development.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, for instance, in conclusion, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 24.0651302605 116% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 41.998997996 76% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1487.0 1615.20841683 92% => OK
No of words: 276.0 315.596192385 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.38768115942 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07593519647 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97757097338 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.634057971014 0.561755894193 113% => OK
syllable_count: 458.1 506.74238477 90% => 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: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 28.6746697695 49.4020404114 58% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 114.384615385 106.682146367 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2307692308 20.7667163134 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.1538461538 7.06120827912 144% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => 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: 0.220902588021 0.244688304435 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0729343360937 0.084324248473 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0482568799751 0.0667982634062 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.101561505309 0.151304729494 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0352876249563 0.056905535591 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 13.0946893788 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.98 12.4159519038 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.37 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 78.4519038076 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 9.78957915832 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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