Some universities offer online courses as an alternative to classes delivered on campus. Do you think this is a positive or negative development?
It is true that online courses are becoming a prevalent feature of university education. Although there are drawbacks of online learning, I would argue that benefits are far more negatives.
On the one hand, there are two major drawbacks that online university courses bring back to students. The first negative of online courses is the less direct interaction between students and teachers. In fact, online learners might not have opportunities to discuss with their teachers and will rely on written forms of communication. For example, traditional students could ask their teacher about the lesson as well as discuss together after class over coffee shop, while online learners are restricted to other forms of communication through email or forum websites. Another negative of this kind of learning is that lack of motivation and competition. While students of traditional classes could study together through group tasks, students of online courses just finish tasks by teacher assignments. This might lead to reduce teamwork ability of students.
On the other hand, I believe that online courses are positive development for various reasons. The first reason is that they could study in flexible ways meaning they can do their job as well as work if it is convenient and they can cover materials at their own pace. Second, online courses bring opportunities for international students who are living in different countries that are struggling to study abroad. For example, my uncle who has just enrolled an online BA course in a US university while he still works as a designer in Viet Nam. Finally, online university classes help to reduce education costs not only for students but also for universities. Universities might not have to spend money in infrastructure of classes, hire more teachers and create events for students.
In conclusion, while there are several certain disadvantages of online courses, I believe that the advantages far outweigh the drawbacks.
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, if, second, so, still, well, while, for example, in conclusion, in fact, kind of, as well as, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 41.998997996 98% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1676.0 1615.20841683 104% => OK
No of words: 314.0 315.596192385 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.33757961783 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20951839842 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84489574189 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 176.041082164 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.547770700637 0.561755894193 98% => OK
syllable_count: 520.2 506.74238477 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.10420841683 190% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.2934548035 49.4020404114 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.75 106.682146367 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.625 20.7667163134 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.375 7.06120827912 133% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.229303722199 0.244688304435 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0832103857537 0.084324248473 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0477800729122 0.0667982634062 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.125083022923 0.151304729494 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.05423868739 0.056905535591 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 13.0946893788 103% => 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: 7.95 8.58950901804 93% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 78.4519038076 85% => 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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