The advantages and disadvantages of online degree programs.
The reading and the lecture are both about the advantages and disadvantages of online degree programs. While the author of the article argues that an online degree program has many drawbacks, it is not the same degree program available in a traditional campus environment. The lecturer disputes the claims mentioned in the article. He believes that online degrees are similar to on-campus degree programs.
According to the reading passage, the online degree program does not offer one-on-one time with the professors. On-campus, professors hold regular office hours and expect to have conferences with their graduate students. The author also mentions that some professors invite their graduate students to their homes or otherwise make themselves available in semi-social settings. In contrast, online professors are unable to see their graduate students in person and, consequently, do not know them very well. This specific argument is challenged by the lecturer. He claims that online degree programs offer one-on-one time to the students either by mail or by phone calls, or video calls.
Secondly, the author suggests that many online graduate programs are not as challenging or as high quality as their on-campus counterparts. In fact, some courses are so easy that students are able to complete them online in one weekend. The lecturer, however, asserts that there are 20 online programs that are not easier to complete, they require time management skills.
Finally, the author puts forth the idea that online degree programs are very different as compared with on-campus degree programs. In contrast, the lecturer disagrees with the author.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, finally, however, if, second, secondly, so, well, while, in contrast, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.4613686534 105% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 12.0772626932 75% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 22.412803532 98% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 30.3222958057 102% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1400.0 1373.03311258 102% => OK
No of words: 257.0 270.72406181 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.44747081712 5.08290768461 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00390054096 4.04702891845 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71359981872 2.5805825403 105% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 145.348785872 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.52140077821 0.540411800872 96% => OK
syllable_count: 437.4 419.366225166 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.23620309051 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.51434878587 66% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.4428491456 49.2860985944 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.3333333333 110.228320801 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1333333333 21.698381199 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.46666666667 7.06452816374 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 4.45695364238 157% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.426957366461 0.272083759551 157% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.144412662501 0.0996497079465 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.137718118911 0.0662205650399 208% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.278268959028 0.162205337803 172% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.143096328558 0.0443174109184 323% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 13.3589403974 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 53.8541721854 85% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.0289183223 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.03 12.2367328918 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.42419426049 101% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 20.5 Out of 30
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.