With the increase of digital media available online, the role of the library has become obsolete. Universities should only procure digital media rather than constantly updating textbooks. Discuss both the advantages and disadvantages of this position and give your own point of view.
Nowadays, it is increasingly acknowledged that digital media are playing a more and more important role in our daily life. While some people believe that universities should get rid of libraries, others advocate that the existence of real books is vital to not only universities but also the whole human society. As far as I am concerned, textbooks and libraries should not remain in universities in spite of the cultural meaning they are carrying.
People who emphasize the importance of libraries and textbooks are primarily focusing on the culture and history behind the idea of real books. Civilization has been built up from people who relied heavily on the knowledge in real books since more than 5000 years ago. Hence, preserving textbooks are regarded as keeping the evidence of what brought human civilization so far from the perspective.
Regardless of the symbolic idea behind textbooks, digital media advocates can find a number of advantages of digital media over textbooks. Firstly, they regard textbooks obsolete compared to digital books. In addition, it is much easier to get access to digital contents than library categories. Moreover, digital media can interact with the readers and express information in a variety of ways. For instance, audio and video can describe scenes more vividly than simple written words.
In a nutshell, while this controversial topic of digital media should replace textbooks is still open to debate. I believe that the inevitable results of digital media taking place of textbooks are in the future.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, if, moreover, so, still, while, for instance, in addition, in spite of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 10.5418719212 95% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 6.10837438424 98% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 8.36945812808 84% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 5.94088669951 101% => OK
Pronoun: 12.0 20.9802955665 57% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 31.9359605911 110% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.75862068966 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1310.0 1207.87684729 108% => OK
No of words: 248.0 242.827586207 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.28225806452 5.00649968141 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96837696647 3.92707691288 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80871015905 2.71678728327 103% => OK
Unique words: 143.0 139.433497537 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.576612903226 0.580463131201 99% => OK
syllable_count: 418.5 379.143842365 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.6157635468 87% => OK
Article: 0.0 1.56157635468 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 1.71428571429 175% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 3.65517241379 55% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 12.6551724138 103% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.5024630542 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.9370147488 50.4703680194 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 100.769230769 104.977214359 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0769230769 20.9669160288 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.0 7.25397266985 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 6.9802955665 72% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 2.75862068966 109% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 2.91625615764 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.298318575293 0.242375264174 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104242781588 0.0925447433944 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0764682068173 0.071462118173 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.175620173612 0.151781067708 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.092822394372 0.0609392437508 152% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 12.6369458128 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 53.1260098522 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.9458128079 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 11.5310837438 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.16 8.32886699507 110% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 55.0591133005 131% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.94827586207 116% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.3980295567 92% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.5123152709 114% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 76.5 Out of 90
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