Discuss the statement: The World Wide Web has destroyed the quality of students assignments”.
In this era of technology 4.0, people are living with complete comfort thanks to the advanced equipment. As well as other technological devices, the internet has been the intimate friend of human life. Together with the development of the Internet, the significance of the World Wide Web is also dramatically enhanced in the last decade, makes it an inevitable mean of information searching. As a result, this tool is also applied by numerous students when doing their assigned tasks. The benefits of the Web are undeniable, but it can be a double-edged sword, the duality of a problem. The Internet gives people wonderful benefits but also not less immeasurable harm that students need to take precaution with.
The first positive aspect of the Web is that it allows students to access a wide variety source of information easily with low cost. It benefits them gain extensive knowledge with the most updated information in all areas. The Internet really is a giant information resource in which the available knowledge in all areas are positive help for students if they know how to select and receive proper information. Not only the WWW provides the most updated news, but it also helps students save a massive amount of time compared to traditional searching in books or libraries. Students no longer need to spend too much time on finding the necessary materials in the thick book that may not be properly focused. Now with just a computer or a phone is connected to the internet, they can find more information straightforwardly and effectively in a click! Additionally, the internet is the most economical tool for searching information. In the past, conducting a research cost a volume of money and time to interview people or collect the data, therefore, it is almost unpractical for a student or a group of students to carry out a study survey. Fortunately, nowadays, by creating a Google form or Facebook poll, they can collect others’ opinion for their survey for free. Also, those data researches that they found online can be solid evidence or references for their assignments. Since the assignments have a concrete and realistic supporting data, their quality would be enhanced.
However, not in every case is the World Wide Web used judiciously as a searching engine by students. Despite the enormous amount and variety sources of knowledge on the Internet, they are not parallel with the quality. The WWW is an updatable global platform, therefore, all people regarding age, education or nationality can edit and add information, but there is no single authority controls it. This, inevitably, results in the proliferation of unreliable and inaccurate web pages. One paradox is that the reference materials which are more easy to access are the more untrustworthy, as indicated in a survey conducted in 2010 by Izmir University of Economics. As a result, the ability to think critically, therefore, becomes indispensable for every student when they come to search for references in the ocean of unchecked information on the Internet.
Furthermore, using Web may lead to students’ decline in creativity and possibly plagiarism. When receiving a task or an assignment, students search on the internet as the first and only way to gather ideas and references. Once they are exposed to others’ articles or works, they would be influenced immediately and unconsciously. Students, therefore, find it difficult to think ideas outside of the box, which results in insufficiency of authentic and original thoughts. Plagiarism is using other people’s work with or without their permission and as one's own original work. It is presenting in many forms, but there is one form that students commit most while using the internet: imprecise citation. Due to numerous uncontrolled websites with duplicate contents, it becomes harder and harder for students to cite the exact source of their references. To exemplify, in an article written in 2010 on Psychology Today, Carson told a story when teaching assistant found out a plagiarized work but was unable to detect the authentic source of the material because there were six sites on the internet gave the same content but not one citing the accurate source.
Taking everything into account, it deserves to acknowledge that World Wide Web is a positive contributor to the effectiveness of searching information for students. Nevertheless, everything is paralleled with its downsides and Web is not an exception. As a result, the use of WWW should be taken seriously in order to assure the promised outcomes.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...dents need to take precaution with. The first positive aspect of the Web is tha...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, nevertheless, really, regarding, so, then, therefore, well, while, as a result, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 59.0 13.1623246493 448% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 7.85571142285 280% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 53.0 10.4138276553 509% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 24.0 7.30460921844 329% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 70.0 24.0651302605 291% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 172.0 41.998997996 410% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 41.0 8.3376753507 492% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 7174.0 1615.20841683 444% => Less number of characters wanted.
No of words: 1362.0 315.596192385 432% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26725403818 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 6.07497194845 4.20363070211 145% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.89815709475 2.80592935109 139% => OK
Unique words: 400.0 176.041082164 227% => Less unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.293685756241 0.561755894193 52% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 2279.7 506.74238477 450% => syllable counts are too long.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 21.0 5.43587174349 386% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 23.0 2.52805611222 910% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 13.0 2.10420841683 618% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 7.0 0.809619238477 865% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 14.0 4.76152304609 294% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 64.0 16.0721442886 398% => Too many sentences.
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.6818455411 49.4020404114 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.09375 106.682146367 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.28125 20.7667163134 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.171875 7.06120827912 31% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 12.0 4.38176352705 274% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 36.0 8.67935871743 415% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.9879759519 226% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 20.0 3.4128256513 586% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.17809063872 0.244688304435 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0450007044257 0.084324248473 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0499326267767 0.0667982634062 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0856814586586 0.151304729494 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0460600656632 0.056905535591 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.0946893788 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 50.2224549098 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 11.3001002004 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.33 8.58950901804 85% => OK
difficult_words: 229.0 78.4519038076 292% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.1190380762 103% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.7795591182 130% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.67 Out of 6
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