When looking for information for a research project, some students prefer to get their information mainly from the Internet. Others prefer to mainly use printed materials such as books and academic journals. Which do you prefer, and why?

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When looking for information for a research project, some students prefer to get their information mainly from the Internet. Others prefer to mainly use printed materials such as books and academic journals. Which do you prefer, and why?

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Average: 5.8 (3 votes)
Speaking category
Q2

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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 430.0 444.711560045 97% => OK
No of words: 117.0 116.580246914 100% => OK
Chars per words: 3.67521367521 3.81502700369 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.28886816799 3.28032121604 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.04992832824 1.8723322822 109% => OK
Unique words: 70.0 76.076318743 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.598290598291 0.655143326166 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 139.5 141.574747475 99% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0607273233194 0.0738818816272 82% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.20202020202 94% => OK
Average paragraph length: 39.0 60.3232687746 65% => OK
STD paragraph length: 25.5734237051 17.3634065801 147% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 14.3566666667 22.9064221017 63% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 9.41038197359 6.49597621602 145% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 26.0 31.1548821549 83% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.5 4.0588447711 111% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.57577471542 3.18357895611 81% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.58384615385 1.46810986539 108% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.764692381203 1.01537252472 75% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 25.0 28.6644219978 87% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.65 5.28593714927 88% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.186 0.187982170178 99% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.174699742415 0.154715141812 113% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 35.66 35.408047138 101% => OK
Average word duration: 0.304786324786 0.306236595465 100% => OK
STD word duration: 0.18385984206 0.198589292138 93% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 10.0 6.3164983165 158% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 7.44 5.14435465769 145% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.29 2.80480359147 46% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 43.07 45.0716498316 96% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.957111111111 1.00159221848 96% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.580450429533 0.637764685501 91% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.71650801022 2.58495923209 105% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.62526120269 1.68816559523 96% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.96298373528 2.15290372801 91% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.243989333333 0.343871460585 71% => OK

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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.