Governments should offer college and university education free of charge to all students.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
The topic of free college has been in hot water. Most counties do not offer free college. Still, several countries do, such as Germany where all colleges and universities are now tuition free. Considering taxes are the primary source for governments to pay the free colleges and universities for all students, there are potential problems. On the other hand, free college provides educational opportunities for those who would otherwise not able to afford it, which consequently benefits the students and the society in a way. It is really hard to pick a side. The Governments need to make their decision after taking into account both the disadvantages and disadvantages.
Since governments pay for students with taxes, free college very often results in heavy tax burden. The government has many duties and functions which are fueled by taxes. A country has approximately a certain amount taxes in total, if the government decides to do something which requires a budget more than usual, it will either reduce the budget from other items or raise the tax burden. As a result, a nation’s overall success or the well-being of its people can be negatively affected. For example, Germany offers free college. According to the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), it has the second highest tax burden of all OECD’s 34 countries—49.8% of average pretax earnings. People can take home only half of their earnings. Some of their own needs may fail to be met and result in dissatisfaction.
Moreover, high tax burden may be perilous to the nation considering free college vies for resources. Consequently, the resources for science and technology may be negatively affected due to the possible insufficient resources, which is decisive in the technology-heavy era. Considering the possible disadvantages, governments should not provide free college unless a nation has excessive resources to support it.
On the other hand, free college has its advertised benefits—allowing more students especially those who are economically disadvantaged to be educated. This can consequently promote a better future for both the students as individuals and the overall society. Cost is very often a reason for high school students not going on to college. According to the date from INSIDE HIGHER ED, less than half of the high school graduates of low-income families have enrolled in college in the United States. These students would be able to go to college if college were free.
With a college degree, graduates will have a better chance to get desired jobs. Besides, they will be able to pay taxes and contribute to the overall society. By contrast, without going to college, people might not be able to get their desired jobs and life or even result in unemployment, which consequently could lead to expanding the budget for welfare and even other unstable factors in the society. Thus, free college provides opportunities to more students which would benefit both them as individuals and the overall society.
Free college is a double bladed sword. Instead of complete free charge, governments could carry out some policies which could help economically disadvantaged students to go college and would not result in too much tax burden. For example, governments could offer students zero interest student loan and more scholarships. Helping more able students go to college will surely benefit the overall society. This issue should be taken seriously.
Comments
regarding the position for
regarding the position for this topic, is it okay if i say that "it is really hard to pick a side"? Thank you!
No, better always support or
No, better always support or against one side. and from the feedback of users, it is easier to argue against the topic than to support the topic.
Essay evaluation report
flaws:
Never try to argue on both side. Those who got high marks always support or against one side. Try this pattern:
paragraph 1: introduction. Suppose we support side A.
paragraph 2: reason 1 + why reason 1 + example of reason 1 + a small conclusion (like advantages of reason 1 or comparisons if not reason 1).
paragraph 3: reason 2 + why reason 2 + example of reason 2 + a small conclusion (like advantages of reason 2 or comparisons if not reason 2).
paragraph 4: Admittedly, there are some advantages of side B. First, ... Second, .... However, there is no causation/relation.... I still support side A. first,....second...
paragraph 5: conclusion -- reinforce the thesis.
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they have very simple introduction and conclusion, but they have 4 arguments instead of 3 arguments.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 32 15
No. of Words: 557 350
No. of Characters: 2842 1500
No. of Different Words: 255 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.858 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.102 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.84 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 212 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 163 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 104 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 63 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.406 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.616 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.531 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.291 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.475 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.097 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 534, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...as individuals and the overall society. Free college is a double bladed sword. I...
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Discourse Markers used:
['besides', 'but', 'consequently', 'if', 'may', 'moreover', 'really', 'second', 'so', 'still', 'thus', 'well', 'for example', 'such as', 'as a result', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.265700483092 0.240241500013 111% => OK
Verbs: 0.132045088567 0.157235817809 84% => OK
Adjectives: 0.119162640902 0.0880659088768 135% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0563607085346 0.0497285424764 113% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0209339774557 0.0444667217837 47% => OK
Prepositions: 0.0869565217391 0.12292977631 71% => OK
Participles: 0.0305958132045 0.0406280797675 75% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.02933952852 2.79330140395 108% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0386473429952 0.030933414821 125% => OK
Particles: 0.00161030595813 0.0016655270985 97% => OK
Determiners: 0.0901771336554 0.0997080785238 90% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0338164251208 0.0249443105267 136% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0161030595813 0.0148568991511 108% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3496.0 2732.02544248 128% => OK
No of words: 555.0 452.878318584 123% => OK
Chars per words: 6.2990990991 6.0361032391 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.85370353223 4.58838876751 106% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.392792792793 0.366273622748 107% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.306306306306 0.280924506359 109% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.209009009009 0.200843997647 104% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.133333333333 0.132149295362 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02933952852 2.79330140395 108% => OK
Unique words: 260.0 219.290929204 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.468468468468 0.48968727796 96% => OK
Word variations: 55.7571710807 55.4138127331 101% => OK
How many sentences: 32.0 20.6194690265 155% => OK
Sentence length: 17.34375 23.380412469 74% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.4869072395 59.4972553346 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.25 141.124799967 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.34375 23.380412469 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.5 0.674092028746 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.94800884956 121% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.21349557522 19% => OK
Readability: 47.9743806306 51.4728631049 93% => OK
Elegance: 1.83076923077 1.64882698954 111% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.459374640902 0.391690518653 117% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.104108092676 0.123202303941 85% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0697252978894 0.077325440228 90% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.456988388349 0.547984918172 83% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.160908695773 0.149214159877 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.151423494811 0.161403998019 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0692777322264 0.0892212321368 78% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.385218531704 0.385218514788 100% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0487340694848 0.0692045440612 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.312594048775 0.275328986314 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0385529792899 0.0653680567796 59% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.4325221239 173% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.30420353982 189% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88274336283 82% => OK
Positive topic words: 14.0 7.22455752212 194% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 3.66592920354 136% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.70907079646 148% => OK
Total topic words: 23.0 13.5995575221 169% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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