An increasing number of people are buying what they need online. What are the advantages and disadvantages?

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An increasing number of people are buying what they need online. What are the advantages and disadvantages?

Nowadays, a growing number of people are paying for good and services online. However, there are both pros and cons of doing this. In this essay, I will discuss some of the reasons why online transactions are so popular and some of the challenges it faces.

Let’s begin by looking at the advantages of online transaction. One of the main positives of online transaction is convenience. Paying for good and services online can be done from the comfort of one’s bed, in a pyjamas and at an odd hour of the day such as 1:00am in the morning. For instance, I can decide to purchase a smartphone on the Samsung website. All I need to do is visit the website, click on the phone of choice and pay with my credit card.

Another advantage of online transaction is the absence of crowds. Unlike the traditional system, you do not have to deal with the problems that crowds present such as the need to wait your turn, or guard your valuables from theft. Furthermore if you are claustrophobic, then online shopping is a good alternative to the traditional system.

On the other hand, a challenge one faces with online transactions is the risk of fraud. It is possible to have your hard-earned money stolen by hackers if you enter your credit card details on e-commerce websites that are not secure. In other words, website not built to standard. Also, you can end up getting counterfeit products which are unlike the products advertised on their websites. For example, getting a rubber shoe when what was displayed and advertised was leather.

Another issue is that online shopping has a negative environmental impact. When one orders online, the goods are put in a number of packages made up of plastics, nylons and cardboards and then, they are brought by courier to one’s doorstep. While it is convenient, one is creating unnecessary waste by shopping online.

To conclude, there are both positives and negatives to shopping online. Despite the fact that it is convenient and it lacks the assembly seen in shops and malls, there is the risk of fraud and its negative footprint on the environment. Personally, I believe it is important to bear that in mind when shopping online.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, furthermore, however, if, look, so, then, while, for example, for instance, such as, in other words, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 13.1623246493 182% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 24.0651302605 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 54.0 41.998997996 129% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1828.0 1615.20841683 113% => OK
No of words: 376.0 315.596192385 119% => OK
Chars per words: 4.86170212766 5.12529762239 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40348946061 4.20363070211 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78895918676 2.80592935109 99% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 176.041082164 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.526595744681 0.561755894193 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 567.9 506.74238477 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 0.809619238477 124% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 16.0721442886 137% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.9879276169 49.4020404114 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.0909090909 106.682146367 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.0909090909 20.7667163134 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.63636363636 7.06120827912 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.38176352705 137% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => 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: 0.1209089039 0.244688304435 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0316674154076 0.084324248473 38% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0401435093119 0.0667982634062 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0559094909641 0.151304729494 37% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0195826995785 0.056905535591 34% => 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: 10.0 13.0946893788 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 50.2224549098 125% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 11.3001002004 77% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.61 12.4159519038 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.01 8.58950901804 93% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 78.4519038076 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 9.78957915832 77% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.

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