The internet will never replace traditional course books in schools. How far do you agree with this prediction?
There is a huge range of resources available to the modern teacher, and the right selection is crucial in delivering effective lessons. I agree that there will always be a place for course books in the school curriculum, despite the many benefits of the Internet.
Firstly, course books whether conventional or digital have been developed by pedagogical experts and designed to be incorporated into a subject syllabus, leading to testing procedures such as formal examinations or continuous assessment. This means that they are proven to improve students’academic achievement, enhancing their potential for progression to further or higher education. Furthermore, the use of modern course books allows pupils to coordinate their studies as part of group work, hopefully making their lessons less teacher-led and more about autonomous learning. This in itself teaches study skills such as independent research and synthesising sources rather than old-fashioned rote-learning. This is where the internet, in fact, can play a useful part: supplement and add to knowledge which the students are assimilating via their course books. However, it is the role of teachers and school management generally to ensure that the use of the internet remains a guided learning process, and not an exercise in data-gathering from internet sources which may be unreliable or even misleading.
It is true that the internet can be invaluable for adults for example in distance learning or self-study module who are able to discriminate between sources and sift information to marshal their facts. However, this is a mature skill and we should not assume that age pupils are ready to do this.
Overall, it appears that course books, with their quality and depth of material, are set to remain an integral part of the syllabus. The internet can be judged a useful supplement to this if used carefully and under supervision.
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- In many countries the tradition of families having meals together is disappearing. why is this happening? what will be the effects of it on the family and Society? 78
- Some people use the Internet to search for solutions to their medical problems. Is it a positive or negative development? Give your own opinion and examples from your experience. 61
- Technology is becoming increasingly prevalent in the world today. Given time, technology will completely replace the teacher in the classroom. Do you agree or disagree with this statement? 77
- Dangerous activities like extreme skiing, bungee jumping, etc. and whether you support them or not. 11
- Do you support dangerous activities like extreme skiing and bungee jumping? Explain your reasons 85
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, may, so, as for, for example, in fact, such as, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 10.4138276553 154% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 41.998997996 83% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1617.0 1615.20841683 100% => OK
No of words: 301.0 315.596192385 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.37209302326 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16525528304 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.12534012674 2.80592935109 111% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 176.041082164 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.607973421927 0.561755894193 108% => OK
syllable_count: 505.8 506.74238477 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => 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: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 48.2188298858 49.4020404114 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.75 106.682146367 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0833333333 20.7667163134 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.33333333333 7.06120827912 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.177761588752 0.244688304435 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0672554676578 0.084324248473 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0509177724213 0.0667982634062 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112585078871 0.151304729494 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0196525141909 0.056905535591 35% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 13.0946893788 125% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 50.2224549098 75% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.3001002004 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.16 12.4159519038 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.81 8.58950901804 114% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 78.4519038076 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 9.78957915832 158% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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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.