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 our way of teaching and learning. However, there remains a controversial issue on whether it is a more a blessing or a curse. Personally, I believe it is always somewhat subjective to say which argument is more reasonable, because both of them make sense.
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, while distance teaching is a blessing brought by the progress of the Internet, the potential problems can not be neglected. In fact, it is of vital importance for us to 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
...cause problems. Initially, for students who are lack of self-control, large possibiliti...
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Discourse Markers used:
['first', 'however', 'may', 'moreover', 'so', 'while', 'at least', 'in fact', 'such as', 'to begin with']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.233009708738 0.247107183377 94% => OK
Verbs: 0.148867313916 0.155533422707 96% => OK
Adjectives: 0.10355987055 0.0946595960268 109% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0679611650485 0.0501214627716 136% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0453074433657 0.0437548338989 104% => OK
Prepositions: 0.129449838188 0.122226691241 106% => OK
Participles: 0.0258899676375 0.0403226058552 64% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.10677455207 2.80594681477 111% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0291262135922 0.0326793684256 89% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.00163938923432 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0679611650485 0.0861772015684 79% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0226537216828 0.021408717616 106% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00970873786408 0.011925033212 81% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1771.0 1933.35771543 92% => OK
No of words: 277.0 316.048096192 88% => OK
Chars per words: 6.39350180505 6.12580529183 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07962216107 4.20517956788 97% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.418772563177 0.374742101984 112% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.368231046931 0.28420135186 130% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.292418772563 0.203846283523 143% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.166064981949 0.137316102897 121% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.10677455207 2.80594681477 111% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 176.037074148 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.635379061372 0.56093040696 113% => OK
Word variations: 72.5159861492 60.7387585426 119% => OK
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0891783567 81% => OK
Sentence length: 21.3076923077 20.7743622355 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.3321730911 49.517814964 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.230769231 127.492653851 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3076923077 20.7743622355 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.769230769231 0.814263465372 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38877755511 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 3.99599198397 25% => OK
Readability: 58.1307970008 49.1944974215 118% => OK
Elegance: 1.48148148148 1.69124875643 88% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.285392257309 0.332605444948 86% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0972843557393 0.102741220458 95% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0577065873514 0.0668466124924 86% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.524808111069 0.534860350844 98% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.103625862771 0.148594505496 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110375091579 0.134430193775 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.102294424506 0.0742795772207 138% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.225455751453 0.324371583561 70% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0698801619106 0.0638462369009 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.188826929892 0.228012699653 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0535204836197 0.058150111329 92% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.68436873747 58% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.9879759519 176% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.41683366733 29% => OK
Positive topic words: 4.0 5.90881763527 68% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 2.5751503006 194% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 1.9629258517 51% => OK
Total topic words: 10.0 10.4468937876 96% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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