Some universities now offer their courses on the Internet so that people can study online. Is this a positive or negative development?
It is true that students nowadays can get university qualifications through online courses. In my opinion, this trend has certain advantages, but they are outweighed by the disadvantages.
On the one hand, I believe that there are three major benefits of online learning. Firstly, by taking online courses, students do not have to go to their universities so they can save a huge amount of time and expense for commuting. Secondly, many distance learning programmes allow learners to choose the time when their lessons begin, and this makes students much more active in their studies. As a result, these students can get better academic results compared to those attending traditional classes. Finally, online learners can easily review what they have learned by simply visiting the websites of their universities where learning materials are usually posted.
On the other hand, there are two main factors, in my view, that makes studying online a negative development. When students study in the comfort of their homes, they are likely to be exposed to a variety of distractions such as video games, TV programmes or even calls from their close friends. Therefore, it may be hard for them to completely concentrate on their lessons. Another factor is the fact that higher education often requires students to conduct a lot of research and experiments. University students studying chemistry, for instance, have to go to the laboratory almost on a weekly basis so that they can put their knowledge into practice. Since courses on the Internet provide students with fewer or even no opportunity to conduct experiments, learners may struggle it comes to solving real-life problems, and this lead to lower education quality.
In conclusion, it seems to me that studying online courses offered by universities is, overall, a negative development.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, such as, as a result, in my opinion, in my view, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 24.0651302605 137% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1557.0 1615.20841683 96% => OK
No of words: 295.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.27796610169 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14434120667 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87678600708 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.593220338983 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 492.3 506.74238477 97% => 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: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.0269399366 49.4020404114 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.214285714 106.682146367 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0714285714 20.7667163134 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 13.4285714286 7.06120827912 190% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.301524192354 0.244688304435 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100466661802 0.084324248473 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0694083474653 0.0667982634062 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1991887585 0.151304729494 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0531416770563 0.056905535591 93% => 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: 13.34 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.39 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 78.4519038076 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => 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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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 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.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, such as, as a result, in my opinion, in my view, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 13.1623246493 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 24.0651302605 137% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1557.0 1615.20841683 96% => OK
No of words: 295.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.27796610169 5.12529762239 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14434120667 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87678600708 2.80592935109 103% => OK
Unique words: 175.0 176.041082164 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.593220338983 0.561755894193 106% => OK
syllable_count: 492.3 506.74238477 97% => 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: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.2975951904 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.0269399366 49.4020404114 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.214285714 106.682146367 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0714285714 20.7667163134 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 13.4285714286 7.06120827912 190% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.301524192354 0.244688304435 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100466661802 0.084324248473 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0694083474653 0.0667982634062 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.1991887585 0.151304729494 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0531416770563 0.056905535591 93% => 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: 13.34 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.39 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 78.4519038076 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => 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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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 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.