Communal online encyclopedias represent one of the latest resources to be found on the Internet. They are in many respects like traditional printed encyclopedias: collections of articles on various subjects. What is specific to these online encyclopedias, however, is that any Internet user can contribute a new article or make an editorial change in an existing one. As a result, the encyclopedia is authored by the whole community of Internet users. The idea might sound attractive, but the communal online encyclopedias have several important problems that make them much less valuable than traditional, printed encyclopedias.
First, contributors to a communal online encyclopedia often lack academic credentials, thereby making their contributions partially informed at best and downright inaccurate in many cases. Traditional encyclopedias are written by trained experts who adhere to standards of academic rigor that nonspecialists cannot really achieve.
Second, even if the original entry in the online encyclopedia is correct, the communal nature of these online encyclopedias gives unscrupulous users and vandals or hackers the opportunity to fabricate, delete, and corrupt information in the encyclopedia. Once changes have been made to the original text, an unsuspecting user cannot tell the entry has been tampered with. None of this is possible with a traditional encyclopedia.
Third, the communal encyclopedias focus too frequently, and in too great a depth, on trivial and popular topics, which creates a false impression of what is important and what is not. A child doing research for a school project may discover that a major historical event receives as much attention in an online encyclopedia as, say, a single long-running television program. The traditional encyclopedia provides a considered view of what topics to include or exclude and contains a sense of proportion that online “democratic” communal encyclopedias do not.
While online encyclopedia have been a the latest resource found on the internet, the passage states the disadvantages of communal online encyclopedia and juxtaposes them with the benefits of traditional encyclopedia. However, The lecture counters the disadvantages listed stated by the passage, providing the support for online communal encyclopedia. The professor admits that while this type of encyclopedia are not perfect, the imperfections are a small price to pay for their inherent benefits.
Firstly, the passage questions the credibility of the information stated in online encyclopedia as most online contributors do not have academic credentials compared to traditional version which are written by trained experts. The professor counters by explaining that errors are inherent in all forms of encyclopedia. However, these errors are easier to current in online encyclopedia which can be easily corrected and edited.
Secondly, the authors further explains that even accurate information can easily be tampered and corrupted by vandals and hackers putting users at risk of falsified information. The professor refutes that online encyclopedia have put measures in place to prevent the hacking of the online databases. Such measures include; Read-only format of information pages which cannot be edited and employing special editors to monitor changes information.
Lastly, the passage states that communal encyclopedia are filled with trivial popular topics which maybe distracting to users. The lecture counters that this is an advantage over traditional encyclopedia which are limited in space restricting a diversity of topics which is a strong benefit of online communal encyclopedia.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 37, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'a' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: a; the
While online encyclopedia have been a the latest resource found on the internet, ...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1461.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 249.0 270.72406181 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.86746987952 5.08290768461 115% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.97237131171 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.12531348728 2.5805825403 121% => OK
Unique words: 132.0 145.348785872 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.530120481928 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 477.0 419.366225166 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.9 1.55342163355 122% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.4881120953 49.2860985944 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.818181818 110.228320801 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6363636364 21.698381199 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.72727272727 7.06452816374 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.361223546909 0.272083759551 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.153675566808 0.0996497079465 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.109426075168 0.0662205650399 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.230440726261 0.162205337803 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.085389219712 0.0443174109184 193% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.5 13.3589403974 131% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 23.77 53.8541721854 44% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 11.0289183223 140% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 17.06 12.2367328918 139% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.05 8.42419426049 119% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 63.6247240618 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 16.5 10.7273730684 154% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 37, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'a' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: a; the
While online encyclopedia have been a the latest resource found on the internet, ...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 5.04856512141 59% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 7.30242825607 68% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 11.0 22.412803532 49% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1461.0 1373.03311258 106% => OK
No of words: 249.0 270.72406181 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.86746987952 5.08290768461 115% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.97237131171 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.12531348728 2.5805825403 121% => OK
Unique words: 132.0 145.348785872 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.530120481928 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 477.0 419.366225166 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.9 1.55342163355 122% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.25165562914 80% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 2.5761589404 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 13.0662251656 84% => 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: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.4881120953 49.2860985944 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 132.818181818 110.228320801 120% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6363636364 21.698381199 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.72727272727 7.06452816374 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 4.45695364238 67% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.27373068433 47% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.361223546909 0.272083759551 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.153675566808 0.0996497079465 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.109426075168 0.0662205650399 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.230440726261 0.162205337803 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.085389219712 0.0443174109184 193% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.5 13.3589403974 131% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 23.77 53.8541721854 44% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 5.55761589404 202% => Smog_index is high.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 11.0289183223 140% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 17.06 12.2367328918 139% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.05 8.42419426049 119% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 63.6247240618 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 16.5 10.7273730684 154% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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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.