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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Average: 8.3 (1 vote)
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 565.0 444.711560045 127% => OK
No of words: 142.0 116.580246914 122% => OK
Chars per words: 3.97887323944 3.81502700369 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.45201032557 3.28032121604 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.11123190078 1.8723322822 113% => OK
Unique words: 90.0 76.076318743 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.633802816901 0.655143326166 97% => OK
Syllable count: 182.7 141.574747475 129% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.126180724636 0.0738818816272 171% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 4.0 3.20202020202 125% => OK
Average paragraph length: 35.5 60.3232687746 59% => OK
STD paragraph length: 24.9048188108 17.3634065801 143% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 10.9075 22.9064221017 48% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 7.44103949391 6.49597621602 115% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 18.0 31.1548821549 58% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 7.88888888889 4.0588447711 194% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.89622184952 3.18357895611 185% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.35833333333 1.46810986539 161% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.43396981992 1.01537252472 141% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 16.0 28.6644219978 56% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.24 5.28593714927 61% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.2025 0.187982170178 108% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.128086884574 0.154715141812 83% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 37.94 35.408047138 107% => OK
Average word duration: 0.267183098592 0.306236595465 87% => OK
STD word duration: 0.143832679577 0.198589292138 72% => 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: 2.04 5.14435465769 40% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.83 2.80480359147 30% => Good job. The lower, the better.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 43.63 45.0716498316 97% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.969555555556 1.00159221848 97% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.366720146688 0.637764685501 58% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.25464130186 2.58495923209 126% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.06280082512 1.68816559523 122% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.37216657881 2.15290372801 110% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.424386 0.343871460585 123% => OK

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It may have duplicated content. Need to use the words more efficiently.

Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.