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 distance learning is becoming popular in higher education. While there are some arguments toward this trend, I believe that the benefits far outweigh its drawbacks in the long term.
On the one hand, there are several reasons why online classes have caused some demerits for learners. Firstly, it is obvious that learners in these courses lack the opportunities to engage face-to-face interactions with their peers and teachers. In particular, students in distance programs rely on the written form of communication, so they will be restricted to contact and exchange the ideas. Secondly, learning online requires participants to have a basic understanding of digital tools as well as knowledge about computer science. If students are not like to adapt to this new method, they will not gain thorough insights of the lessons.
On the one hand, despite the limitations mentioned above, I support that joining in online education bring a wide range of benefits. The first advantage is that these programs allow students to have access to the classes from any locations of their choice. This means students from remote areas can enroll in the courses regardless of any nation or accommodations. Another key merit is that students can seek for huge available resources in the internet which could be used to boost the students’ learning progress. If students can apply this way effectively, they will achieve better academic performance at the university.
In conclusion, although there are some disadvantages of internet-based learning, I believe that this method will have a positive impact on tertiary education.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to progress'
Suggestion: to progress
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... positive impact on tertiary education.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, well, while, in conclusion, in particular, as well as, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 10.4138276553 29% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 41.998997996 90% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1382.0 1615.20841683 86% => OK
No of words: 259.0 315.596192385 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.33590733591 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.01166760082 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94507291597 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 176.041082164 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.610038610039 0.561755894193 109% => OK
syllable_count: 431.1 506.74238477 85% => 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: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
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: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 23.3990340164 49.4020404114 47% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 106.307692308 106.682146367 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9230769231 20.7667163134 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.23076923077 7.06120827912 117% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => 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: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.189339150617 0.244688304435 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.060006337297 0.084324248473 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.036976437934 0.0667982634062 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110312738336 0.151304729494 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0322398365675 0.056905535591 57% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.0946893788 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 12.4159519038 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.76 8.58950901804 114% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 78.4519038076 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => 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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