When looking for information for a research project, some students prefer to get their information mainly from the Internet. Others prefer to mainly use printed materials such as books and academic journals. Which do you prefer, and why?

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When looking for information for a research project, some students prefer to get their information mainly from the Internet. Others prefer to mainly use printed materials such as books and academic journals. Which do you prefer, and why?

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

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 642.0 444.711560045 144% => OK
No of words: 159.0 116.580246914 136% => OK
Chars per words: 4.03773584906 3.81502700369 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.55098862472 3.28032121604 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.95832938831 1.8723322822 105% => OK
Unique words: 104.0 76.076318743 137% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.654088050314 0.655143326166 100% => OK
Syllable count: 197.1 141.574747475 139% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.146817421411 0.0738818816272 199% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 79.5 60.3232687746 132% => OK
STD paragraph length: 58.5 17.3634065801 337% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 22.435 22.9064221017 98% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 16.245 6.49597621602 250% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 19.0 31.1548821549 61% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 8.36842105263 4.0588447711 206% => The average length of sentences is long.
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.46283514225 3.18357895611 140% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.33052631579 1.46810986539 159% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.0938511093 1.01537252472 108% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 17.0 28.6644219978 59% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 2.84 5.28593714927 54% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.167058823529 0.187982170178 89% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.0794662122712 0.154715141812 51% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 39.01 35.408047138 110% => OK
Average word duration: 0.24534591195 0.306236595465 80% => OK
STD word duration: 0.130667275738 0.198589292138 66% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 3.0 6.3164983165 47% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.13 5.14435465769 41% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.24 2.80480359147 44% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 44.87 45.0716498316 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.997111111111 1.00159221848 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.378872297749 0.637764685501 59% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.54357031424 2.58495923209 137% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.31780699799 1.68816559523 137% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.66598308126 2.15290372801 124% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.401848559748 0.343871460585 117% => OK

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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.