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 courses presented by universities are becoming common nowadays. I believe they have more benefits than drawbacks.
There are many arguments against the online courses; firstly, there is less-directed interaction. Students do not have the chance to communicate verbally with the teachers. They use the keyboard to type their questions or suggestions. This may affect the teaching process badly. The communication between students also will not present. They cannot discuss their knowledge or exchange their ideas appropriately. They may use websites forums to meet each other electronically. Secondly, being separated from each other, students lack the spirit of competitiveness, so they will lose the motivation to work hard. Thirdly, fake courses carrying names of prestigious universities may deceive applicants and steal their money.
Despite the disadvantages mentioned above, I, strongly argue that the online courses have many advantages. Flexibility is one of the greatest benefits. Students can study at their own pace in a convenient schedule. They may complete the curricula faster than those who study at the standard classroom. The cost of the university education will decrease as the applicants will use their own computers and will not go to the university facilities. Accessibility is another benefit. Internet-based learning is open to all people with different ages, genders, or races. For example, my uncle who is 55 years old, applied to an MBA online course. He does not need to travel to the USA to get his degree.
In conclusion, online learning could have drawbacks, but its benefits are more.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, for example, 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: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 24.0651302605 91% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 41.998997996 62% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1391.0 1615.20841683 86% => OK
No of words: 255.0 315.596192385 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.45490196078 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99608801488 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06546789668 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 176.041082164 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.650980392157 0.561755894193 116% => OK
syllable_count: 434.7 506.74238477 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 16.0721442886 131% => OK
Sentence length: 12.0 20.2975951904 59% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 28.174625531 49.4020404114 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 66.2380952381 106.682146367 62% => OK
Words per sentence: 12.1428571429 20.7667163134 58% => More words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 5.33333333333 7.06120827912 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 3.4128256513 293% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.157979614436 0.244688304435 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0395500630795 0.084324248473 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0452465648669 0.0667982634062 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0786442370858 0.151304729494 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0525626623662 0.056905535591 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.3 13.0946893788 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.84 50.2224549098 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.2 11.3001002004 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.44 12.4159519038 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.19 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 78.4519038076 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 4.5 9.78957915832 46% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 6.8 10.1190380762 67% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.7795591182 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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