Online graduate degree programs are being offered worldwide. In many respects, the programs are like the same degree programs available in a traditional campus environment, but in several key aspects, they are very different.
The article introduces with the fact that online degrees are being offered all around the world as the most parts of the globe are digitalised now. More specifically, the passage states that online degrees are more detremental than that of the conventional on-campus degrees. The following reasons and contradictions depict the advantages and disadvantages of an online degree.
Firstly, the passage says that in online training, one-on-one time with the professors is not offered, which can be vital sometimes when there is a need for a student to discuss about a topic that is not well understood in the lecture. A student in this situation can talk to the professor, face to face wherever and whenever is convenient for both the student and professor in the campus. Whereas, the lecture disagrees to this fact that one-on-one time with the professors is only needed when the student wishes and it is not that significant. Students can much efficiently talk to the professors by the medium of either email, chat or even telephone the professor directly.
Secondly, the passage goes on to say that with the spread of online graduate programs among the schools around the globe, because of the ease of access with which the students can study by themselves. The online courses are claimed to become relatively much easier than their on-campus counterparts. This can be because the lectures are recorded and students can access them anytime, they tend to finish the courses much faster than listening to each lecture typically in a class-room. On the contrary, the lecture claims that online programs are not easier but some students assessed them to be much harder than the on-campus programs. They further claim that, this is because, all the online graduate programs are supposed to match the same standards as the on-campus programs. Students tend to feel that online programs are much harder because they have to maintain consistency, be self-disciplined and manage time throughout the course.
Lastly, the passage goes on to say that most of the top schools in the world, do not offer online counterparts of their courses because of the lack of the quality they possess. This is claimed to be disproven by the lecture that gives a particular example, saying that Ivy League, Princeton which are one of the top schools in the world, offer online graduate programs. Because of this claim, it can be inferred that online graduate programs are accepted by many top schools.
To sum up, both the passage and the lecture hold conflicting views about having online graduate programs. It can be concluded, because of the reasons and real-life examples given by the lecture, that online graduate programs are just as credible and can be validated, just as their on-campus counterparts.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, well, whereas, on the contrary, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 10.4613686534 268% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 5.04856512141 198% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 7.30242825607 164% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 12.0772626932 174% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 22.412803532 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 64.0 30.3222958057 211% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2327.0 1373.03311258 169% => OK
No of words: 459.0 270.72406181 170% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0697167756 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62863751936 4.04702891845 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73233885067 2.5805825403 106% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 145.348785872 132% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.418300653595 0.540411800872 77% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 719.1 419.366225166 171% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 3.25607064018 246% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.25165562914 240% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 2.5761589404 194% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 13.0662251656 138% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.9195053882 49.2860985944 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.277777778 110.228320801 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.5 21.698381199 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.33333333333 7.06452816374 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 4.33554083885 161% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 4.45695364238 112% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.27373068433 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.232638565766 0.272083759551 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0901655373487 0.0996497079465 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0676670087627 0.0662205650399 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.143614644196 0.162205337803 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0639754343466 0.0443174109184 144% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 13.3589403974 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 53.8541721854 86% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 11.0289183223 118% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.2367328918 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.18 8.42419426049 97% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 63.6247240618 151% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 10.7273730684 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.2008830022 134% => 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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