Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? When doing research, it is better to use printed materials such as books and articles than it is to use the Internet. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
Some people like to use internet for research purposes whereas some people are old-school and prefer using printed materials such as books and articles. I disagree that when doing research, it is better to use printed materials than it is to use the internet. I believe that using the internet is better. I can give three reasons to back my opinion.
While doing research, we are exposed with tons of information and it is very important to find the right information from this massive pool of information. That is where the internet comes to help. When viewing any article or a book digitally, we can use ctrl+F option to find a particular topic and in a fraction of second, we would be able to exactly find on which page that particular word is. We cannot get this advantage in any printed material. There we need to manually figure out where that particular word was which we were looking for. One example for this is when I was doing my research on the approximate multipliers. There were a lot of articles on approximate multipliers avaialble and I was only concerned about Dijikstra approximate multipliers. So I took an article and applied the ctrl+F option on the word 'Dijikstra' and I easily got the information I needed and I was able to finish my research very quickly. This would not have been possible if I was reading a book on approximate multipliers. I would have to search for that word manually and there is also some chance that I might miss that word in some places.
Secondly, according to my experience, books and articles are usually costlier than materials available on the internet. Most of the materials available on the internet are free of cost and if it is a subscription based model, then the subscription price is usually nominal for students. This is not the case with printed books. These books are costlier than their soft copies. I remember when I was researching about Aeroplanes for my science project, there was a book on Aeroplanes which I wanted to purchase. That book was priced 28$. When I looked at its soft-copy price on the publication's website, it was 20$. They were taking extra 8$ for the hard-cover on the book. I purchased the soft-copy and proceeded with my research. Thus, printed copies are usually costlier then their counterparts on internet and we can save money if we use internet for research.
Thirdly, if we are using the internet for research, we can also take advantage of the interactive platform which internet offers. If we are not able to understand anything, then we can just go to you-tube, watch some videos. Nowadays, we can find videos on any topic on you-tube. Many free slide-shows are also available which can help us understand the topic for research. When I was researching about the approximate multipliers, I could not understand anything initially. Then I watched some you-tube videos on the topic, asked some doubts on public forums. These helped me a lot to strengthen my base for research. Hence, we can use internet in all sorts of ways to clear out doubts which is not possible with printed materials because books non-interactive and like internet forums, books cannot resolve our doubts.
So, I firmly disagree that printed materials should be used over internet when doing research. Using internet will be less costly, it will help us to segregate the information easily and it can offer us a completely different interface which a printed book does not.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
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Message: The currency mark is usually put at the beginning of the number: '$28'.
Suggestion: $28
...anted to purchase. That book was priced 28$. When I looked at its soft-copy price o...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'publications'' or 'publication's'?
Suggestion: publications'; publication's
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Message: The currency mark is usually put at the beginning of the number: '$20'.
Suggestion: $20
...ice on the publications website, it was 20$. They were taking extra 8$ for the hard...
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Message: The currency mark is usually put at the beginning of the number: '$8'.
Suggestion: $8
...ite, it was 20$. They were taking extra 8$ for the hard-cover on the book. I purch...
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Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, if, look, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, thus, whereas, while, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 38.0 15.1003584229 252% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 9.8082437276 204% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 26.0 11.0286738351 236% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 78.0 43.0788530466 181% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 59.0 52.1666666667 113% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.0752688172 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2861.0 1977.66487455 145% => OK
No of words: 592.0 407.700716846 145% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.83277027027 4.8611393121 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.93265142912 4.48103885553 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77435787341 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 242.0 212.727598566 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.408783783784 0.524837075471 78% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 899.1 618.680645161 145% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 25.0 9.59856630824 260% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.94265232975 20% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 34.0 20.6003584229 165% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 47.5192639866 48.9658058833 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.1470588235 100.406767564 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.4117647059 20.6045352989 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.82352941176 5.45110844103 52% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.5376344086 108% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 17.0 4.88709677419 348% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.328940931815 0.236089414692 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101047880177 0.076458572812 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.124979935484 0.0737576698707 169% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.246931783751 0.150856017488 164% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.134814757169 0.0645574589148 209% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.0 11.7677419355 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 58.1214874552 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 10.1575268817 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.44 10.9000537634 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.28 8.01818996416 91% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 86.8835125448 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 10.002688172 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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