Some universities offer online courses as an alternative to classes delivered on campus. Do you think this is a positive or negative development?
Online learning has been a hot topic recently. It is used by some colleges to replace classes. As far as I am concerned, this trend has both positive and negative impacts on students as well as the education system.
On the one hand, it is undeniable that online courses bring students a lot of benefits. First and foremost, distance learning allows pupils to study at flexible times and choose the most convenient study places for them. It can be explained by the fact that some students have lots of essential classes at the same time, so it is incredibly impossible for them to attend all the lectures. In some circumstances like these, pupils can choose online courses as the option to assist them solve this problem effectively. Not only does it help students to study whenever they are free but it also offers them more time to handle other vital work. Secondly, pupils can learn one lesson many times thanks to the records of online lectures. In case they do not understand some points of the lesson, they can review it by watching the videos.
On the other hand, there are some drawbacks of online courses that people should take into consideration. The primary rationale is that online learning includes no human contact during the lectures, which means that students just only interact with the computer or mobile phone when they study. If a student has some questions or a new idea about the lessons, there is no one to explain it to them. Meanwhiles, in terms of classes, teachers can guide them to deal with their problems in the most accurate way, which helps students be likely to acquire knowledge quickly and effectively. Furthermore, these online courses are made by relying on a fixed process, so they may not be suitable for some kinds of students, especially those who do not have self-study ability. These students need to be guided carefully with particular advice from teachers and study under supervision, which online courses can not provide.
In conclusion, the current trend of online learning is progressively increasing. As discussed in the essay, I would contend that the merits of this trend can be outweighed by its limitations, and teachers still play a vital role in teaching programs.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, well, while, in conclusion, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 7.30460921844 151% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 24.0651302605 150% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 48.0 41.998997996 114% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.3376753507 36% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1848.0 1615.20841683 114% => OK
No of words: 378.0 315.596192385 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88888888889 5.12529762239 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40933352052 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62838909131 2.80592935109 94% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 176.041082164 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.544973544974 0.561755894193 97% => OK
syllable_count: 582.3 506.74238477 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 16.0721442886 112% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.2506333358 49.4020404114 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.666666667 106.682146367 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 20.7667163134 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06120827912 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.170074783078 0.244688304435 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0602418541444 0.084324248473 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0395236930731 0.0667982634062 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.106590912354 0.151304729494 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0352581861491 0.056905535591 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.0946893788 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 50.2224549098 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.3001002004 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.08 12.4159519038 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.58950901804 100% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 78.4519038076 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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