Distance learning programmes are in trend. However, people think that this is a poor substitute for attending a university or college. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Education plays a vital role in the development of an individual or society as a whole. In recent times, distance education has gained a popularity among mass and many argue that it is not as reliable as going to college or university and consider it as a poor substitute. I hold a diplomatic view for the given notion and this essay tends to delve into both the perspectives.
On the one hand, distance education is ideal for working people who can not go to college to attend regular classes. Moreover, full-time study is unaffordable for many in that case distance education is a viable option as it is economical in cost. Additionally, for housewifes, it is easy to pursue higher education as it provides flexibility of time to tutees. On top of this, many elite universities are offering degrees in distance education programme and curriculum is designed very efficiently to impart value to students.
On the other hand, many people opt for distance education merely for the sake of getting a degree without much effort. Some universities and colleges provide these degrees and students do not need to study much and exams are passed with the use of unfair means. These kinds of activities questions the credibility of distance education system. Secondly, critics argue the efficiency of distance learning. As full-time education gives more exposure to students it is considered the best way of getting the education and developing skills in contrast with distance learning where students study on their own.
Contemplating all my views, I pen down by asserting that distance education is a very good opportunity for those who want to enhance their skills and qualification, provided right university or college is chosen.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, moreover, second, secondly, so, in contrast, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 13.1623246493 91% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 23.0 8.3376753507 276% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1456.0 1615.20841683 90% => OK
No of words: 285.0 315.596192385 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10877192982 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10876417139 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94999882624 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 176.041082164 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.554385964912 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 488.7 506.74238477 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.384769539078 0% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => 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: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.1670141984 49.4020404114 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.0 106.682146367 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9230769231 20.7667163134 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.07692307692 7.06120827912 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.181059644256 0.244688304435 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0692219510358 0.084324248473 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.037024818796 0.0667982634062 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112763167884 0.151304729494 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0320051368584 0.056905535591 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.0946893788 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.4159519038 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.78 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 78.4519038076 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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