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 overweight the disadvantages?
It is undoubted that the appearance of distance education has revolutionized the way of teaching and learning. However, there remains a controversial issue on whether it is a more a blessing or a curse. It is my personal belief that although the cons are inescapable, the benefits it brings to us generally outweigh the drawbacks.
To begin with, we have to admit that on-line education do cause problems. Initially, for students who are lack of self-control, large possibilities are that they will either indulge themselves in on-line games or will be distracted from on-line chat rooms without proper supervision from teachers. Moreover, individual learning experience may make the young adults become socially inadequate, even isolated due to the lack of face-to-face communications with teachers and fellows.
However, seen from the positive side, certain virtues can be gained via distance education. First, distance education can provide a more flexible schedule for students to arrange their study plan more freely. This is especially suitable for special learning groups, such as part-time learners, sick students or self-learners. More importantly, tele-education is a convenient and economical way of learning -- students do not have to travel for long distances and pay for expensive tuition. Ultimately, it shares the greatest teaching resources in the world and provides equal chances for learners from any corner of the world, which will definitely help to enhance the educational level of humankind.
By way of conclusion, distance teaching is a blessing brought by the progress of the Internet. However, it is better for us to take it as a supplementary tool of traditional teaching rather than a replacement and try to prevent or at least weaken its negative impact.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 99, Rule ID: WHO_NOUN[1]
Message: A noun should not follow "who". Try changing to a verb or maybe to 'who is a are'.
Suggestion: who is a are
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Discourse Markers used:
['first', 'however', 'may', 'moreover', 'so', 'at least', 'such as', 'to begin with']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.235483870968 0.247107183377 95% => OK
Verbs: 0.145161290323 0.155533422707 93% => OK
Adjectives: 0.103225806452 0.0946595960268 109% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0645161290323 0.0501214627716 129% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0483870967742 0.0437548338989 111% => OK
Prepositions: 0.125806451613 0.122226691241 103% => OK
Participles: 0.0258064516129 0.0403226058552 64% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.15468351205 2.80594681477 112% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0290322580645 0.0326793684256 89% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00163938923432 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0806451612903 0.0861772015684 94% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0193548387097 0.021408717616 90% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00967741935484 0.011925033212 81% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1790.0 1933.35771543 93% => OK
No of words: 280.0 316.048096192 89% => OK
Chars per words: 6.39285714286 6.12580529183 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09062348924 4.20517956788 97% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.425 0.374742101984 113% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.367857142857 0.28420135186 129% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.3 0.203846283523 147% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.164285714286 0.137316102897 120% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.15468351205 2.80594681477 112% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 176.037074148 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.621428571429 0.56093040696 111% => OK
Word variations: 69.5200675817 60.7387585426 114% => OK
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0891783567 81% => OK
Sentence length: 21.5384615385 20.7743622355 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.90327451 49.517814964 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.692307692 127.492653851 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5384615385 20.7743622355 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.615384615385 0.814263465372 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38877755511 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.99599198397 25% => OK
Readability: 58.3241758242 49.1944974215 119% => OK
Elegance: 1.5 1.69124875643 89% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.331851641737 0.332605444948 100% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0969095437184 0.102741220458 94% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0474381632445 0.0668466124924 71% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.531522023364 0.534860350844 99% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.124151242612 0.148594505496 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.13418984266 0.134430193775 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.107851803261 0.0742795772207 145% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.235078411196 0.324371583561 72% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0416048182301 0.0638462369009 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.222169843438 0.228012699653 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0360614038059 0.058150111329 62% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.68436873747 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.41683366733 29% => OK
Positive topic words: 4.0 5.90881763527 68% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 2.5751503006 155% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 1.9629258517 51% => OK
Total topic words: 9.0 10.4468937876 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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