Universities and colleges are now offering qualifications through distance learning from the Internet rather than teachers in the classroom. Do you think the advantages of this development outweigh the disadvantages?

Information technology is playing a pivotal role in many aspects of our lives, particularly in education, and many people are able to study at home through distance-learning programs. Although I understand certain advantages of online learning, I maintain that traditional classroom learning should still be preferred.

Admittedly, online learning can eliminate geographical limitations in education and offers a viable and valuable option, particularly for full-time workers and those who have families to take care of. Also, those who can not participate in classroom learning can achieve work-life balance. These people might not have a schedule which is flexible enough to allow for traditional classroom learning. Online learning often allows for much more flexibility and sometimes a student can view a lesson online, whenever they have time for it.

Those things being said, traditional classroom learning has many intrinsic advantages. Unlike online learning, teachers can adjust their teaching styles and their instructions to best suit the characteristics of their students. Also, classroom learning offers interaction that is most likely absent in online classes. For example, classroom teaching allow for lively group discussions or group projects, which contribute to students' physical, mental and emotional development.

In my opinion, classroom teaching remains the preferred method of learning over online learning. Meanwhile, online learning it offers a value option for people with special needs.

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Average: 6.1 (1 vote)
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IELTS Writing Task II - IELTS Academic

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 299, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...on. Also, it should be pointed out that some of the people who are looking to earn degrees ...
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Line 3, column 385, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled as one.
Suggestion: fulltime
...rees are people who are already working full time. These people might not have a schedule...
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Line 5, column 251, Rule ID: FELLOW_CLASSMATE[1]
Message: Use simply 'classmates'.
Suggestion: classmates
... can generally ask his professor or his fellow classmates, and he can get answers to his question...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, look, so, still, while, in my opinion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 13.1623246493 68% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 24.0651302605 96% => OK
Preposition: 22.0 41.998997996 52% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1421.0 1615.20841683 88% => OK
No of words: 253.0 315.596192385 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.61660079051 5.12529762239 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98822939669 4.20363070211 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93677751232 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 176.041082164 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.573122529644 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 437.4 506.74238477 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 5.43587174349 110% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.484848416 49.4020404114 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.307692308 106.682146367 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4615384615 20.7667163134 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.61538461538 7.06120827912 51% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.9879759519 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.154449599355 0.244688304435 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0670137594645 0.084324248473 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0417236305035 0.0667982634062 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110608034963 0.151304729494 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0312244340507 0.056905535591 55% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 13.0946893788 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.32 12.4159519038 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.64 8.58950901804 101% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 78.4519038076 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 9.78957915832 128% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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More content wanted.

Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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