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 people can easily enroll on distance-learning courses provided by universities around the world thanks to the rapid development of technology. The essay will outline some positives and negatives before drawing a clear conclusion of this trend.
On the one hand, courses offered on the Internet would result in some drawbacks to students. First, online education would require learners a high level of self-regulation. In fact, lessons and assignments or homework are delivered on the Internet and sent through emails, which means that students need to have a good time management skill to complete their homework and send back to their lecturers before deadline. Second, students are more likely to lack direct interaction when taking online courses because all activities are done online even group discussions or presentations. Students do not have chances to involve in face-to-face conversations with their teachers and peers which usually happen in a formal classroom in reality.
On the other hand, this trend is of greater benefit to students. To overseas students, they would have a golden opportunity to enter some prestigious universities in developed countries like the UK or the USA, regardless of geographical barriers. Besides, degrees from these universities would open the door for them to better employment opportunities. In terms of working adults, they can take distance-learning courses to broaden their knowledge and improve some soft skills such as computer literacy or word processor which benefit their career prospects. Due to the fact that they have to spend all day at their workplaces, such online education would allow them to work at their pace and whenever they want owing to the availability of lessons and teaching videos on the Internet.
In conclusion, it seems to me that this trend would exert more good effects on students’ learning process.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 104, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to process'
Suggestion: to process
...good effects on students' learning process.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, first, second, so, in conclusion, in fact, such as, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 5.0 13.1623246493 38% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 24.0651302605 100% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1613.0 1615.20841683 100% => OK
No of words: 299.0 315.596192385 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.39464882943 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1583189471 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.05677934375 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 176.041082164 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.602006688963 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 490.5 506.74238477 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => 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: 23.0 20.2975951904 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.7853027239 49.4020404114 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.076923077 106.682146367 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 20.7667163134 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.92307692308 7.06120827912 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.258521230871 0.244688304435 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0846958416225 0.084324248473 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.06314057511 0.0667982634062 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149577175563 0.151304729494 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0871704352818 0.056905535591 153% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 13.0946893788 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 50.2224549098 96% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.3001002004 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.28 12.4159519038 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.16 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 78.4519038076 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.1190380762 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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