Many people join distance learning programs (study material, post, TV, Internet) and study at home, but some people think that it cannot bring the same benefits as attending colleges or universities does. Do you agree or disagree?

While distance-learning via electronic media has become a popular trend in contemporary life, I would argue that this type of education would not be the better choice for college students than the traditional face-to-face classrooms.

On the one hand, there are many reasons why Elearning has been so prevalent in many countries. Firstly, it is noteworthy that more people would have opportunities to have access to the higher education system. Admittedly, workers and stay-at-home parents can enrol in any suitable courses without worrying about their primary tasks under the flexible schedule, location, and cheaper tuition fee. With enhanced specialized knowledge and techniques equipped, they could have higher living standards. A recent study reported that 84% of learners, who completed at least one online course, had a wage raise after that. Secondly, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), provided by prestigious Universities and responsible organization, continued to be created and launched as aggressively as ever. An article, conducted by Class Central at 2017 MOOC roundup series, indicated that the total number of MOOCs that year rose at 9400 from 6500 after one year.

On the other hand, there are many compelling reasons why I believe that college attendance is generally more suitable than Elearning. Firstly, dropout rates in online courses are considerably high. A survey, conducted by European Stakeholder Summit in 2017, showed that MOOCs offered by Standford, Massachusetts Institue of Technology and University of California Berkley had experienced dropout rates as high as 80-90 percent. Secondly, social interaction in traditional classes might enable students to acquire business know-how, which is helpful for their future working, namely presentation skill, teamwork skill. In particular, teamwork has to take place in a considerable number of university activities such as the midterm project, sports competition. They would gain experience to a certain degree about conflict management, confidence building as there is typically more than one voice of dissent.

With the thriving of the internet and technologies, distance learning has become a new approach to human knowledge in recent years. While it is technically true, the benefit distance learning brought has not much as attending colleges or universities.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, while, as to, at least, in particular, such as, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 7.85571142285 89% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 10.4138276553 77% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.3376753507 168% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2000.0 1615.20841683 124% => OK
No of words: 352.0 315.596192385 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.68181818182 5.12529762239 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33147354134 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.03498454664 2.80592935109 108% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 176.041082164 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.642045454545 0.561755894193 114% => OK
syllable_count: 618.3 506.74238477 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.6723641139 49.4020404114 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.0 106.682146367 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 20.7667163134 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.6875 7.06120827912 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => 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: 0.143717563891 0.244688304435 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0418964696343 0.084324248473 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0396364453986 0.0667982634062 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0867514240998 0.151304729494 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0459753522471 0.056905535591 81% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 13.0946893788 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 32.22 50.2224549098 64% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.3001002004 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.66 12.4159519038 126% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.38 8.58950901804 121% => OK
difficult_words: 126.0 78.4519038076 161% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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