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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Speakings by user thakannv :

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

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 406.0 444.711560045 91% => OK
No of words: 104.0 116.580246914 89% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.90384615385 3.81502700369 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.19343686757 3.28032121604 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.81616264293 1.8723322822 97% => OK
Unique words: 73.0 76.076318743 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.701923076923 0.655143326166 107% => OK
Syllable count: 117.0 141.574747475 83% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.21358024691 91% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.203846405848 0.0738818816272 276% => Good job. The more, the better.

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 5.0 3.20202020202 156% => OK
Average paragraph length: 21.0 60.3232687746 35% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 13.2211951048 17.3634065801 76% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 9.004 22.9064221017 39% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 5.34657497843 6.49597621602 82% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 36.0 31.1548821549 116% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.88888888889 4.0588447711 71% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.96889390519 3.18357895611 62% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.17194444444 1.46810986539 80% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.771639018383 1.01537252472 76% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 35.0 28.6644219978 122% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 8.9 5.28593714927 168% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.254285714286 0.187982170178 135% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.243501665753 0.154715141812 157% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 32.5 35.408047138 92% => OK
Average word duration: 0.3125 0.306236595465 102% => OK
STD word duration: 0.167347806862 0.198589292138 84% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 6.3164983165 127% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 5.77 5.14435465769 112% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.17 2.80480359147 77% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 45.02 45.0716498316 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 1.00044444444 1.00159221848 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.777432252332 0.637764685501 122% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.31008440693 2.58495923209 89% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.62150155486 1.68816559523 96% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.24615384615 2.15290372801 104% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.415688798077 0.343871460585 121% => OK

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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.