Write about the following topic.
Some universities now offer their courses on the Internet so that people can study online.
Is this a positive or negative development?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
You should write at least 250 words.
Internet boom in the last decade has changed the way we live our lives to a great extent. Calling a friend on landline to a confrence video call on facetime with bunch of friends and writing a letter on paper to using a qwerty keypad to write a letter, we have come wat too far. One such invasion of the internet is being seen in education sector as well where many universities and colleges have now begun offering courses online. Some people are of opinion that offering such facilities by univerisity is a boon whereas others assert that its a bane. In my opinion, I mostly agree with the group that see online courses offered by educational institutions with a positive outlook. I believe this for two reasons.
Firstly, online courses increases the reach of courses offered by universities. Now a persons sitting in remote areas like antartica can enroll for the online courses of their choices offered by universties present in somewhat metropolitian countries like canada or USA. This enhanced reach of accessing lectures from any where in the world is beneficial for both univerisites and for students alike. Increase in university enrollment means greater sum of tution fees collected which can be spent in making more such kind of courses, research and developement etc.. At the same time online courses takes away headache of being physically present at class at a given specific time. Indian Institute of technology assert that average GPA of students in engineering departments increased from 2.8 to 3.2 after introduction of online courses. Similar comparable results were seen in other universities as well. Researchers and data scientist accredit this surge to the fact that student who earlier used to miss lecture becuase of fixed class schedules now attended lectures according to their own time table and this attendance helped them to perform better in exam.
In addition to accessibility, online courses offers benefits to learn a concept at individual's own pace. People in traditional settings have to constantly catch up with the pace of proffessor to grasp the concept being taught, but with introduction of online courses student can view same lecture again and again on rewind untill the concepts are entirely fathomable. For instance - Imagine a student who is introvert and doesn't ask proffessor in classroom setting to explain the concept again if he struggles to understand it, then such introverts get an opportunity to just rewind the lecture playing on their computer screens rather than actually requesting proffessor for clearification. Thus people get to study at their own pace, with the setting and end environment that suits them.
However, Online courses has drwaback of taking away joy that one gets by interacting wth fellow classmates, working in group projects and assignments, and participating in group discussions in traditional classroom. Social skills that are very necessary in any job that we get after our studies, and these can only be learned by interaction with copious number of people. These skills can thus be never learned if students opts only for online courses. Moreover, doubts clearing session is tedious and byzantine in online courses than in traditional classroom lectures. In onine courses, person talks to instructor through emails, chats and video calls and finding a time to interact that suits and fits both patrties often acts as an impediment. Traditional settings on the other hand has advantage in this regard as student gets a chance to clear his doubts at an instant by raising hands or other comparable gestures.
In conclusion, online course has changes the way we study and has helped in making life's easier for many student whereas at the same time it has some drawbacks thus reaching a definite conclusion is quite cumbersome as each setting offers its own advantages and diadvantages.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 10, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[8]
Message: The proper name in singular (Internet) must be used with a third-person verb: 'booms'.
Suggestion: booms
Internet boom in the last decade has changed the way ...
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Line 1, column 542, Rule ID: IT_IS[17]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
...ty is a boon whereas others assert that its a bane. In my opinion, I mostly agree w...
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Line 3, column 319, Rule ID: ANY_WHERE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'anywhere'?
Suggestion: anywhere
...hanced reach of accessing lectures from any where in the world is beneficial for both uni...
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Line 3, column 564, Rule ID: DOUBLE_PUNCTUATION
Message: Two consecutive dots
Suggestion: .
...f courses, research and developement etc.. At the same time online courses takes a...
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Line 5, column 260, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'courses'' or 'course's'?
Suggestion: courses'; course's
...taught, but with introduction of online courses student can view same lecture again and...
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Line 5, column 423, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
... Imagine a student who is introvert and doesnt ask proffessor in classroom setting to ...
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Line 7, column 90, Rule ID: FELLOW_CLASSMATE[1]
Message: Use simply 'classmates'.
Suggestion: classmates
...ay joy that one gets by interacting wth fellow classmates, working in group projects and assignme...
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Line 9, column 101, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun student seems to be countable; consider using: 'many students'.
Suggestion: many students
...d has helped in making lifes easier for many student whereas at the same time it has some dr...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, firstly, however, if, look, moreover, so, then, thus, well, whereas, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, kind of, of course, in my opinion, on the other hand, to a great extent
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 13.1623246493 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 7.85571142285 64% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 10.4138276553 202% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 15.0 7.30460921844 205% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 38.0 24.0651302605 158% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 95.0 41.998997996 226% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 13.0 8.3376753507 156% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3250.0 1615.20841683 201% => Less number of characters wanted.
No of words: 631.0 315.596192385 200% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.15055467512 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.01195704033 4.20363070211 119% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80069369883 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 338.0 176.041082164 192% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.535657686212 0.561755894193 95% => OK
syllable_count: 1020.6 506.74238477 201% => syllable counts are too long.
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: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 16.0721442886 156% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 69.7486229255 49.4020404114 141% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.0 106.682146367 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.24 20.7667163134 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.16 7.06120827912 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.01903807615 159% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 8.67935871743 196% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 3.4128256513 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.23115498057 0.244688304435 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0680641924035 0.084324248473 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0376415429215 0.0667982634062 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.129732282826 0.151304729494 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0415431196073 0.056905535591 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 13.0946893788 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 50.2224549098 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.3001002004 115% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.89 12.4159519038 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.13 8.58950901804 106% => OK
difficult_words: 170.0 78.4519038076 217% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 9.78957915832 138% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => 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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