Choosing a college major proves daunting for most entering college students and it could take them days, months or a year to make a concise decision. The prompt recommends that students should decide on a career path that conforms most with their interests and skill set rather than picking courses for readily available job prospects in the labour market. In my opinion, I mostly agree with this suggestion that colleges should consider their skill, ability and interest when deciding on a college major for 2 reasons.
Firstly, the job market is rather dynamic as change is a constant in the human cycle of life, thus choosing a career path based on the readily available jobs in the market at the time of school entry without considering it in the long term is at a student’s own risk. For instance before the pandemic, a plebian white collar job at an advertising agency that requires lots of onsite appearance would fetch good pay and is very attractive, however with the onset of the pandemic, remote jobs are the latest trends for the labour market and people with the required skills would adapt promptly while the others would have o find other alternatives to make a living. Consequently, the unpredictable job market is not a good mark for choosing a college major. Besides, what is the probability that remote jobs will continue to be a trend after the pandemic?
Secondly, even if we assume that the job market is static and not dynamic, there is still the issue of self satisfaction, happiness and a sense of achievement that comes with a career that aligns with your interests. For example, a student passionate about Geology pragmatically choosing a path of medicine due to the plethora of opportunities in the job market may later struggle to keep up with her studies due to school pressure or later in the future not find any self satisfaction or sense of achievement in the medical field. She may find herself wondering how her career would be if she had chosen a geology major instead. A sense of achievement is an end product of the desire and happiness an individual derives from his or her career and persons with such tend to be more committed, efficient and productive.
Finally, with the frequently evolving global economy and the competitive job market, it is imperative that students pick a major that is practical. However this is why the students should pursue a path that aligns with their interests and skills so that they can be more grounded and firm against their opponents in the job market.
In conclusion, people who tend to forgo their interest in favour of readily available job prospects in the labour market do so at their own peril.
e-rater score report
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: ??? Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 10 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 461 350
No. of Characters: 2179 1500
No. of Different Words: 230 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.634 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.727 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.577 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 163 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 108 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 73 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 40 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 32.929 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.602 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.786 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.358 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.575 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.119 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 122, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...is still the issue of self satisfaction, happiness and a sense of achievement tha...
^^
Line 7, column 149, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...tudents pick a major that is practical. However this is why the students should pursue ...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, consequently, finally, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, thus, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 28.8173652695 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 57.0 55.5748502994 103% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2229.0 2260.96107784 99% => OK
No of words: 461.0 441.139720559 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.83514099783 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63367139033 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66561617139 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 204.123752495 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.498915401302 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 694.8 705.55239521 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 32.0 22.8473053892 140% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 83.6783504052 57.8364921388 145% => OK
Chars per sentence: 159.214285714 119.503703932 133% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.9285714286 23.324526521 141% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.6428571429 5.70786347227 204% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0720067929969 0.218282227539 33% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0291519518615 0.0743258471296 39% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.027118100951 0.0701772020484 39% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0386454132623 0.128457276422 30% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0305358973282 0.0628817314937 49% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.8 14.3799401198 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.46 48.3550499002 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.197005988 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.38 12.5979740519 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.99 8.32208582834 108% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 98.500998004 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 11.1389221557 133% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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