Q14. 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?
Recently, the issue of whether remote education is beneficial or not has become the subject of heated debate. Some people assert that although there are some advantages to earning bachelor's or master's degrees through online education, these are exceeded by the disadvantages, while others argue otherwise. Personally, I wholeheartedly agree with the former stance. In the following essay, both views will be discussed before a conclusion is reached with my opinion.
On the one hand, those who claim that university or college students can benefit a great deal from receiving tertiary education on the Internet do so for several reasons. Proponents of this argument insist that remote learning has revolutionised the way students attending their classes regardless of time and place. To be more specific, students are capable of taking lectures with greater ease anywhere at any time considering that having access to the Internet is the sole requirement. In addition, receiving education on the Internet enables students to concentrate more on their studies since commuting to and from school often deprives students of a huge amount of time that would otherwise be spent on devotion to their studies.
My opinion, however, is that the disadvantages of online university or college education are more significant. Perhaps the principal disadvantage is that students can struggle to have a tight grasp of their majors given that distance learning prevents students from acquiring instant feedback and advice from their professors. This means that students are more likely to have difficulty revising for their subjects and dealing with their assignments, which can even exert a detrimental influence on their academic performance, Furthermore, if it were not for face-to-face lectures for students, they would be incapable of mingling with their colleagues as well as senior students in person who help the to building strong relationships with one another. Therefore, students can have trouble in developing interpersonal skills that will be invaluable in their future careers. In light of the above, I find these more persuasive.
In conclusion, it is undeniable that there are a variety of opinions about this topic. However, after considering this matter in a careful manner, I fully support the view that the drawbacks of online university or college education surpass the benefits for the reasons discussed above.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
furthermore, however, if, so, therefore, well, while, in addition, in conclusion, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 7.30460921844 205% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 37.0 24.0651302605 154% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 58.0 41.998997996 138% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 8.3376753507 156% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2053.0 1615.20841683 127% => OK
No of words: 376.0 315.596192385 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.46010638298 5.12529762239 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40348946061 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94996446526 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 176.041082164 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.561170212766 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 657.0 506.74238477 130% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.76152304609 147% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 16.0721442886 93% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 90.4604517639 49.4020404114 183% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.866666667 106.682146367 128% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0666666667 20.7667163134 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.13333333333 7.06120827912 87% => OK
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 : 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: 0.125184570413 0.244688304435 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0447298305714 0.084324248473 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0415795589703 0.0667982634062 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0748210074375 0.151304729494 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0272003598232 0.056905535591 48% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.8 13.0946893788 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 50.2224549098 75% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.3001002004 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.68 12.4159519038 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.62 8.58950901804 112% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 78.4519038076 144% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 9.78957915832 123% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => 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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