Some universities now offer their courses on the Internet so that people can study online. Is this a positive or negative development?

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Some universities now offer their courses on the Internet so that people can study online. Is this a positive or negative development?

Study has become so integral a part of our life that universities now enable online courses. From my perspectives, this trend is beneficial, but its drawbacks clearly outweigh the merits.

On the one hand, I accept that online study has a positive influence on students. Owing to the instant availability of classes facilitated by the interim development of network, the so-called ‘’’distance’’ problem has been holistically surmountable. For instance, students in the remote regions of Vietnam could attend classes fully and punctually without the need to travel such a massive distance, which significantly reduces the rate of accidents and the overuse of fuels. On top of that, Internet-based study can be a venue for students from various areas, enhancing the diversity of cultures in the classes.

Lucrative as it might seem, online courses contain a host of downsides. Firstly, distant learning drastically undermines the value of face-to-face communication. It is the fact that social skills aslo count as the most valuable factors to integrate into society. Accordingly, studying via online platforms could adversely deteriorate first-hand contact with both teachers and peers, which triggers the decay of self-confidence and the lack of reasoning skills. Secondly, online learning is not accessible to the whole population, including those in the outback regions with limited access to the Internet as well as superficial knowledge of computer usage. This can cause a major disadvantage for the poverty-stricken students, if the sheer focus is shifted to online studying.

The aforementioned evidences form a concrete conclusion that although online course are useful, their shortcomings surpass the perks in some aspects

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Average: 6.7 (1 vote)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, well, for instance, as well as, on top of that

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 13.1623246493 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 10.4138276553 48% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 7.30460921844 96% => OK
Pronoun: 15.0 24.0651302605 62% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 41.998997996 79% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1498.0 1615.20841683 93% => OK
No of words: 263.0 315.596192385 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.69581749049 5.12529762239 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.02706775958 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.75613826296 2.80592935109 134% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 176.041082164 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.67680608365 0.561755894193 120% => OK
syllable_count: 467.1 506.74238477 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => 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: 20.0 20.2975951904 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.4241183956 49.4020404114 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.230769231 106.682146367 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2307692308 20.7667163134 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.15384615385 7.06120827912 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => 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: 0.188532772159 0.244688304435 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0565686838226 0.084324248473 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0493059720342 0.0667982634062 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107643252932 0.151304729494 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0297335833384 0.056905535591 52% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 13.0946893788 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.26 50.2224549098 68% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.5 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.78 12.4159519038 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.75 8.58950901804 125% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 78.4519038076 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.1190380762 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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