Some universities offer online courses as an alternative to classes delivered on campus.
Do you think this is a positive or negative development?
In many universities, distance learning through an online platform is provided for students as an option
to replace traditional classrooms. In my view, although such a development could be detrimental in a
number of ways, overall, I believe it to be an essential step forward.
On the one hand, this method of remote learning, without the need for regular face-to-face contact
with teachers in a classroom, is negative for two reasons. Firstly, students who study online do not
develop comprehensively in the way that other students who attend classes at school do. During online
courses, it is difficult for students to make friends or attempt to compete with their peers. This is often
linked to the fact that those learners seem to undervalue the significance of interaction and rivalry with
classmates in an educational environment, which are actually regarded as great stimuli for scholastic
success. Secondly, participants of online learning programs have a tendency to procrastinate more and
poorly allocate an appropriate amount of time to complete assignments. This form of studying
requires tremendous self-discipline as well as excellent organization and time management skills as
students usually struggle with balancing their coursework with other priorities, and quickly become
unmotivated without direct guidance from instructors.
On the other hand, online learning is proving to be a great alternative, although traditional universities
are still widely considered as the best way to acquire knowledge and a qualification. Access to all
resources within a traditional course is offered, which empowers learners to freely choose from a wide
range of different subjects, from science to economics. Furthermore, lower costs and the widespread
presence of the Internet allow unlimited numbers of participants, regardless of not only their financial
background but also current living location. For example, Coursera is a website that offers a variety of
courses at reasonable prices and presents valid certification for participants upon completion of each
course.
In conclusion, though there are some drawbacks to studying via online courses, I do believe that this
method is a revolutionary step in contemporary tertiary education systems.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, if, second, secondly, so, still, well, for example, in conclusion, as well as, in my view, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 7.85571142285 25% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 41.998997996 126% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 8.3376753507 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1958.0 1615.20841683 121% => OK
No of words: 341.0 315.596192385 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.74193548387 5.12529762239 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29722995808 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.25249424185 2.80592935109 116% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 176.041082164 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.615835777126 0.561755894193 110% => OK
syllable_count: 603.0 506.74238477 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.76152304609 210% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
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: 26.0 20.2975951904 128% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 43.3267480962 49.4020404114 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 150.615384615 106.682146367 141% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.2307692308 20.7667163134 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.1538461538 7.06120827912 172% => OK
Paragraphs: 23.0 4.38176352705 525% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.192212768098 0.244688304435 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.061768767461 0.084324248473 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0400338880192 0.0667982634062 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0457325361406 0.151304729494 30% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0497731995908 0.056905535591 87% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.7 13.0946893788 143% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 28.17 50.2224549098 56% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 11.3001002004 140% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.31 12.4159519038 131% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.53 8.58950901804 123% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 78.4519038076 154% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.1190380762 123% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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