Write about the following topic.
Some universities now offer their courses on the Internet so that people can study online.
Is this a positive or negative development?
Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge or experience.
An increasing number of universities, even the most famous as MIT and Stanford, is starting to offer online courses and degrees, beside the on-campus ones. This development process has been particularly boosted after the spread of the outbreak, that has made it mandatory to provide courses on the internet, so that students who have not the availability to go physically to the university, can still follow their lectures online. Personally, I am convinced that the opportunity to earn an online-degree is life-changing for many categories of individuals and, even if it is not the best option for everybody, it is a positive development for our society as a whole, since it makes education more accesible.
First, online courses can be particularly convenient for people who travel a lot and who do not have a fixed place in which they stay all over the year. For them, it would otherwise be impossible to attend an university, since they would miss the majority of the lessons and, moreover, they would not be able to take their exams. An example of this are athletes, who need to move to many places to do trainings and so, in the majority of the times, decide not to study at university. Moreover, they will be extremely helped by an online delivery of lectures, since the timetable would be more flexible, as they would be able to listen the lecture in the evening, after having trained.
In addition, benefits would be provided also to poor people who live in the countryside. In the past, children from these humil families were always forced to leave their studies after high school, since they both do not have the funds to sustain a life in an urban center with a university and they had to help their relatives with their cultivations or their farms. Now, especially in the wealthiest regions, the situation has quite changed, albeit the problem persists in the less developed zones, where education is not accessible to the majority of the youngest. Therefore, online courses may completely change this trend, giving the opportunity to study even to the offspring of farmers and agriculters. As a matter of fact, they would be able to follow lectures comfortably from their home, while working for their family business.
In conclusion, even if they are not suitable for everybody, I consider online courses a brilliant mean to make education accessible at new categories, such as athletes, land and farm workers, since they give the opportunity to access to lectures wherever and whenever they want, allowing them to continue doing their primary activity.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 207, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...would otherwise be impossible to attend an university, since they would miss the m...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, may, moreover, so, still, therefore, while, in addition, in conclusion, such as, as a matter of fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 13.1623246493 129% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 24.0651302605 154% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 64.0 41.998997996 152% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2148.0 1615.20841683 133% => OK
No of words: 431.0 315.596192385 137% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.9837587007 5.12529762239 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55637350225 4.20363070211 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81863306827 2.80592935109 100% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 176.041082164 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.524361948956 0.561755894193 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 699.3 506.74238477 138% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 5.43587174349 166% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 12.0 2.10420841683 570% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 11.0 4.76152304609 231% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 33.0 20.2975951904 163% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 69.8642809415 49.4020404114 141% => OK
Chars per sentence: 165.230769231 106.682146367 155% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.1538461538 20.7667163134 160% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.0 7.06120827912 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => 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: 0.193443461557 0.244688304435 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0766896697945 0.084324248473 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0386415329638 0.0667982634062 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.125240279716 0.151304729494 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0516421867499 0.056905535591 91% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.6 13.0946893788 142% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.98 50.2224549098 76% => OK
smog_index: 13.0 7.44779559118 175% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.2 11.3001002004 143% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.2 12.4159519038 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.19 8.58950901804 107% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 78.4519038076 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 21.5 9.78957915832 220% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 15.2 10.1190380762 150% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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