Some universities now offer their courses on the Internet so that people can study online. Is this a positive or negative development?

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Some universities now offer their courses on the Internet so that people can study online. Is this a positive or negative development?

Online classes are a new trend that has been offered by some universities in the last couple of decades to help students who can study on the internet. This essay will discuss the reasons why this trend can be considered both a positive and a negative fact.
Universities have been offering courses on the internet for years now, and it must be considered a fundamental and helpful opportunity for many students all over the world. Not only having access online to lessons and studying materials is practical and fast, but also it allows many full time working students or for example single moms to stay on track with their studying careers. The positive side of this trend grows even more if we consider that using the internet, students from all over the world can enroll and graduate from a university abroad.
Nevertheless, the possibility of studying online has its downsides: for example, procrastinators could feel less pressure to attend an online course as they would with frontal lessons, leading to more waste of time. The chance to adjust one's personal schedule in order to include the attendance to online classes might lead students to stay behind fellow colleagues. Another point often overlooked is the possibility of direct interaction with the professors, since during frontal lessons they are available to help and clarify any doubt one might have. When attending an online university, the student does not have this chance and instead this could lead to feeling abandoned over time.
To sum up, this new trend that universities are adopting has a number of positive upsides, being that it facilitates some lives. Downsides, though, should not be overlooked, as they all could be the reason why the rate of online students dropping up of universities is rising.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: fulltime
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Message: Use simply 'colleagues'.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, nevertheless, so, for example, to sum up

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 10.4138276553 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1489.0 1615.20841683 92% => OK
No of words: 296.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.03040540541 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14784890444 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68061710989 2.80592935109 96% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 176.041082164 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.574324324324 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 473.4 506.74238477 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => 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: 26.0 20.2975951904 128% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 32.3534202466 49.4020404114 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.363636364 106.682146367 127% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.9090909091 20.7667163134 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.54545454545 7.06120827912 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.239425297038 0.244688304435 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0983451810288 0.084324248473 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0739669262394 0.0667982634062 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.164500393914 0.151304729494 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0951257164121 0.056905535591 167% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 13.0946893788 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 50.2224549098 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 11.3001002004 119% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 12.4159519038 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.77 8.58950901804 102% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 78.4519038076 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 9.78957915832 143% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.1190380762 123% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => 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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