Integrated Writing - Distance Learning
Both the reading and the listening discuss distance learning - a recently popular way of learning in which students listen to online lectures and complete assignments by themselves. While the passage points out various benefits of this new form of acquiring knowledge, the professor talks about the drawbacks that have not been taken into account.
Firstly, according to the author, that distance learning has flexible schedules attracts many people since students can start and finish studying whenever they feel like. However, the listening indicates that this program poses great difficulties to professors because it is designed to suit the students more than the lecturers. As a result, professors are supposed to grade and evaluate students' work on a regular basis throughout the years.
Secondly, it is mentioned that most online learners show interest in the convenience of the program: the only thing they need is an Internet-linked computer, and they can listen to lectures at home or workplace, saving significant time traveling to school. Nevertheless, due to its easy accessibility, online courses are generally believed to be inferior to offline ones in terms of their quality. In addition, the professor makes the point that taking courses online does not give people the traditional university experience.
Finally, the passage states that the idea of solitary learning is absolutely advantageous to many learners, such as students with disabilities, introverts, and normal students who just need more time to absorb information from classes. The lecturer challenges this point of view by saying that seclusion can have its own disadvantages. Facing difficult problems on schoolwork, students tend to speak to the professor and get answers immediately, but that is not feasible when learning on the Internet.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, while, in addition, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 5.04856512141 99% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 7.30242825607 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 22.412803532 89% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 30.3222958057 129% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1554.0 1373.03311258 113% => OK
No of words: 281.0 270.72406181 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.53024911032 5.08290768461 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09427095027 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9679558849 2.5805825403 115% => OK
Unique words: 177.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.629893238434 0.540411800872 117% => OK
syllable_count: 471.6 419.366225166 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.55342163355 109% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 3.25607064018 61% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.23620309051 61% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 2.5761589404 78% => OK
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: 25.0 21.2450331126 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.2171985125 49.2860985944 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.272727273 110.228320801 128% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.5454545455 21.698381199 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.8181818182 7.06452816374 153% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => 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: 0.110454848003 0.272083759551 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.041301215564 0.0996497079465 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0646900150539 0.0662205650399 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0722313681327 0.162205337803 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0493779213009 0.0443174109184 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.4 13.3589403974 130% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 53.8541721854 70% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.0289183223 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.09 12.2367328918 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.05 8.42419426049 119% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 63.6247240618 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.7273730684 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.498013245 114% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.2008830022 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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