With the help of technology, people can easily get access to more resources in education, such as online courses (e.g. MOOCs慕课) and numerous educational application programs (i.e. APPs). Is this in some way competing with traditional forms of education or making education more effective? Why? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.
随着科技的进步， 人们能越发容易获取更多教育资源， 比如在线课程(如慕课等)以及大量的教育APP等。有人认为这会让教育变得更加有效， 也有人认为这会冲击传统的教育方式。你的观点是什么？就这一主题写一篇300 词的文章，请用具体的原因和细节阐述你的观点。
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破题思路：该作文题目是典型的议论文写作，在线教育的利弊一直是个热点话题，必须要承认的是，在线教育的确给传统教带来了巨大的冲击，但是在线教育的优势也是无可否认的。
在线教育可以改变教育资源分布不平衡的问题，在线教育形式多样，微课、慕课、翻转课堂等多种互动方式都可以应用到信息化教学环节中。在线教育可以让学生有更多的自主性，学生可以自主选择自己感兴趣的老师和课程，上课形式灵活，不受时间、地点限制等等。
所以，本文从肯定在线教育的优势这个角度去写是比较容易的。
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Online Courses Enable
Highly-Effective Education
In recent years, information technology has developed by leaps and bounds and even found its way into people’s daily life. Naturally, there exists an obvious phenomenon that an exponential increase of people begin to make full use of those numerous online courses and educational application programs with the view of improving their learning.（引入话题，提供相关背景知识） However, some are favor of it while others cringe at this kind of education. As far as I’m concerned, online courses enable highly-effective education to a great extent. （主旨句，明确提出自己的观点：在线课程在很大程度上实现了高效教育。）
语言点
1. by leaps and bounds（改善或增长）非常迅速地，飞跃地
2. an exponential increase 指数级增长
3. cringe畏缩，怯退
4. enable 使成为可能；使可行；使实现
to make it possible for sth to happen or exist by creating the necessary conditions
For one thing, online education offers a window into a broader world than before. Over the past few decades, students are restrained to a classroom only with those adults limited information derived from books and teachers. Besides that, those adults who are beyond the school age are lacking in more ways to acquire knowledge. From this point of view, the traditional education can’t satisfy the needs alongside more providing countless ambitious people. Nevertheless, online education becomes a blessing for them，providing countless resources to learn, broadening their horizon as well as prompting their learning efficiency. （分论点一+supporting details，论证在线教育的好处）
语言点：
5. derived from：来源于
6. acquire knowledge：获取知识
7. satisfy the needs：满足需求
For another, online education and traditional education have become complementary to each other with the passage of time. By virtue of online courses and educational application programs, people are capable of learning something easily and repeatedly, which indeed saves human and material resources to lay out a sound and perfect educational surrounding. Therefore, there is no denying that online education exerts a stupendous and tremendous influence on people’s learning.（分论点二+supporting details，论证在线教育的好处）
语言点：
8. be complementary to sth. ：与……互补
9. exert a stupendous and tremendous influence on：产生惊人的巨大影响
In a nutshell, it is undoubtedly that online courses enable highly-efficient education. Not only can it help people have more access to knowledge and information, but be conductive to the modernization of traditional education（倒装句，句型富于变化）. As an old saying goes, you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs（引用论证）. Hence, only to follow the strides of this burgeoning era can we write a new chapter of revolutionary education and usher in a brighter future of modernize education. （结论部分，重申中心论点，总结全文）
语言点：
10. in a nutshell： 简括地说
11. be conductive to：有助于
12. usher in : 开启，迎来
13. burgeoning era 迅速发展的时代
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这篇作文，论点清晰，论证有力，结构完整，层次分明。
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句子较为流畅，作者能够熟练使用丰富，复杂的句式结构，提升文章高级感，有良好的语言表达效果。
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语法结构使用较为准确，内容表达准确生动。
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单词拼写准确恰当，词汇基础扎实。
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不足之处是原文中有一些冠词和单词拼写错误，该文在发布时已经做过修订。
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