Some universities offer online courses as an alternative to classes delivered on campus Do you think this is a positive or negative development

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Some universities offer online courses as an alternative to classes delivered on campus. Do you think this is a positive or negative development?

Modern technology enables universities to offer many online courses. In my opinion, this has both positive and negative impacts on learners' outcomes.

On the one hand, the online learning model can benefit in some aspects. Firstly, to learners, online courses are more convenient for students who live far away from school. For example, Vietnamese students are able to attend a virtual class offered by a foreign university without having to travel abroad. Those courses help learners save a large amount of money from commuting, housing and food. Besides, it also allows students to have a flexible learning schedule because they can choose courses suiting their situations. Secondly, to universities, offering online courses attracts more learners, regardless of where they are. As a result, these universities can make more profit and will promote their reputation remarkably.

On the other hand, a virtual class has many drawbacks that it cannot substitute for the traditional style. First of all, online courses cannot provide a learning environment where students can also have social connections. It is difficult for online students to have face-to-face interaction with their teachers and classmates. Therefore, studying become boring, and students lose interest. Their academic outcomes might be affected in an undesirable way. In addition, there are so many distractions from the Internet while learners are studying from an online class. Instead of focusing on lectures, they can surf webs, use social media or chat with friends. These contribute to lower academic results as inevitable.

In conclusion, offering online courses for learners may be a necessity because of its advantages. However, their drawbacks make it cannot replace traditional classes in universities.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, while, for example, in addition, in conclusion, as a result, first of all, in my opinion, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 13.1623246493 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 7.85571142285 140% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 41.998997996 76% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1521.0 1615.20841683 94% => OK
No of words: 271.0 315.596192385 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.61254612546 5.12529762239 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05734859645 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85729924662 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 176.041082164 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.60147601476 0.561755894193 107% => OK
syllable_count: 483.3 506.74238477 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.76152304609 168% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 16.0721442886 118% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 20.2975951904 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 21.0939069067 49.4020404114 43% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 80.0526315789 106.682146367 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.2631578947 20.7667163134 69% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.2105263158 7.06120827912 145% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.01903807615 40% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.9879759519 150% => OK
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: 0.212907105619 0.244688304435 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.064688076686 0.084324248473 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.046321365081 0.0667982634062 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.147185523659 0.151304729494 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.045228393151 0.056905535591 79% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.0946893788 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 40.34 50.2224549098 80% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.67 12.4159519038 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.34 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 78.4519038076 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 9.78957915832 66% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.1190380762 75% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 Out of 9
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