With the widespread usage of the Internet, online courses are becoming a common feature of university education. Although there are some drawbacks of remote courses, I intend to argue that there are far more benefits.
On the one hand, one of the drawback of having courses online is that students lack the opportunity to interact with professors directly. Written forms of communication is the only solution, which may lead to ineffective interaction. For instance, students may fail to describe their questions clearly when it comes to complicated content. Furthermore, it takes time to reply emails back and forth. Discussion cannot be made instantly due to the fact that they are in the different time zones. Another drawback would be lacking the support from classmates. Because students generally are in different countries, there is no possibility for them to work on group projects. Without the stimulation from their peers, their potentials are less likely to be inspired.
On the other hand, despite the aforementioned disadvantages, I believe they can be outweighed by the advantages. Firstly, online courses provides students flexibility to arrange their time. Take businessmen for example, if they intend to make good use of their spare time and improve themselves, they can attend these online courses and get another diploma. Secondly, the tuition fees can be reduced, while the revenue of universities will increase as more students can be accepted. Finally, students can absorb the materials and the knowledge taught in their own pace. Besides, they can always resume the videos to watch again, which in my opinion is the main benefit of remote courses.
By way of conclusion, in spite of the not negligible drawbacks, I would contend that the overall development is positive.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, finally, first, firstly, furthermore, if, may, second, secondly, so, while, for example, for instance, in my opinion, in spite of, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 10.4138276553 38% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 41.998997996 90% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1519.0 1615.20841683 94% => OK
No of words: 286.0 315.596192385 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.31118881119 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.11236361783 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89642422896 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 176.041082164 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.597902097902 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 480.6 506.74238477 95% => 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: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 26.0179602593 49.4020404114 53% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 89.3529411765 106.682146367 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.8235294118 20.7667163134 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.23529411765 7.06120827912 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.67935871743 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 3.4128256513 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.155194490727 0.244688304435 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0463295834624 0.084324248473 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0394015093773 0.0667982634062 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0898236102458 0.151304729494 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.045292477364 0.056905535591 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 13.0946893788 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 46.78 50.2224549098 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.22 12.4159519038 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.29 8.58950901804 108% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 78.4519038076 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 9.78957915832 87% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => 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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