In order to become well-rounded individuals, all college students should be required to take courses in which they read poetry, novels, mythology, and other types of imaginative literature.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agre

School students have poetry and classics as a part of their curriculum. It is generally in the teenage years where one explores the world of novels and such imaginative literature. Various colleges also provide electives or options to students for taking up courses in mythologies and others that encourage imagination. However, it should not be made compulsory for all students in college to take up some courses in literature.

Firstly, there is not enough time available for students in college to pursue courses peripheral to their field of specialization. Devoting time to imaginative literature means taking out time from core subjects. Students pursuing a medical career are always running out of time. It is common for them to resort to drugs to help them fight sleep and find more time to memorize symptoms, medicines and anatomy. Students in biology are always found in the lab scrutinizing growth stages in cultures of bacteria over days. Law students are always found studying the law tomes in the library. Even though, the lecture hours in a week may be few, but the labs and assignments are time consuming. Pushing in one more subject to study is going to burden the students and hence will not be well received.

Also, people do not see direct impact of taking up such courses. Students are willing to take courses that help them prepare a refined and specific resume to impress their employer. Students are willing to take up esoteric topics in their own fields rather than take up something in a different field. The main purpose of graduating, it seems today, has been limited to achieving a high paying job, and increasing competition is supporting this attitude. Today colleges are judged by the criteria of average pay their students receive on campus placements. This encourages colleges to prepare students for the careers rather than for a life. The ultimate quest for the students is to be able to get a job at their dream companies. Hence, students nor colleges are inclined to the proposal of making imaginative literature mandatory.

However, in some of the private colleges that are already well reputed and need not worry about placements, can give this proposal a try. It would be beneficial as imagination is heart of all innovation. By laxing the exam and avoiding or reducing assignments for this course, students can, in fact, unwind by listening to interesting lectures on mythologies or poems or novels. Though, it may be hard to see short term benefits, in the long run this scheme could pay off by giving their students a edge over the others. Nonetheless, such scheme will require the support from both the student and the college faculty, as forced curriculum will not be fruitful.

Thus, majority of the colleges where the focus of study is the core subject, courses on imaginative literature will take up time without providing instant positive results. There may be limited number of institutes where students and college are willing to take up this opportunity.

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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'firstly', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'nonetheless', 'so', 'thus', 'well', 'as for', 'in fact']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.269581056466 0.240241500013 112% => OK
Verbs: 0.171220400729 0.157235817809 109% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0765027322404 0.0880659088768 87% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0418943533698 0.0497285424764 84% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0291438979964 0.0444667217837 66% => OK
Prepositions: 0.109289617486 0.12292977631 89% => OK
Participles: 0.0582877959927 0.0406280797675 143% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.71867278436 2.79330140395 97% => OK
Infinitives: 0.040072859745 0.030933414821 130% => OK
Particles: 0.016393442623 0.0016655270985 984% => OK
Determiners: 0.08014571949 0.0997080785238 80% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.023679417122 0.0249443105267 95% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0109289617486 0.0148568991511 74% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3018.0 2732.02544248 110% => OK
No of words: 501.0 452.878318584 111% => OK
Chars per words: 6.02395209581 6.0361032391 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73107062784 4.58838876751 103% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.383233532934 0.366273622748 105% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.301397205589 0.280924506359 107% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.211576846307 0.200843997647 105% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.107784431138 0.132149295362 82% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71867278436 2.79330140395 97% => OK
Unique words: 252.0 219.290929204 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.502994011976 0.48968727796 103% => OK
Word variations: 59.2930608576 55.4138127331 107% => OK
How many sentences: 27.0 20.6194690265 131% => OK
Sentence length: 18.5555555556 23.380412469 79% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.6063998974 59.4972553346 51% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.777777778 141.124799967 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5555555556 23.380412469 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.518518518519 0.674092028746 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.21349557522 58% => OK
Readability: 48.6952761144 51.4728631049 95% => OK
Elegance: 1.8045112782 1.64882698954 109% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.371995893373 0.391690518653 95% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.109926051855 0.123202303941 89% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0753798064068 0.077325440228 97% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.463383028415 0.547984918172 85% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.110553701263 0.149214159877 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.137200614399 0.161403998019 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.064179164535 0.0892212321368 72% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.380252855087 0.385218514788 99% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0684793113981 0.0692045440612 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.26401816434 0.275328986314 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0625938899138 0.0653680567796 96% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.4325221239 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.30420353982 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88274336283 184% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 12.0 7.22455752212 166% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 3.66592920354 109% => OK
Neutral topic words: 8.0 2.70907079646 295% => OK
Total topic words: 24.0 13.5995575221 176% => 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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