Claim: Colleges and universities should specify all required courses and eliminate elective courses in order to provide clear guidance for students.
Reason: College students — like people in general — prefer to follow directions rather than make their own decisions.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
In the present scenario, an increasing number of colleges are adopting an educational system that provides provision to do elective courses, that is, the students have the latitude to pursue the course they like from a set of courses. At this point, it is no wonder for a student to comptemplate on the merits and demerits of such a system. The prompt suggests that the Colleges and universities should stipulate the necessary courses for the students rather than students choosing their courses. However, I feel that providing students with elective courses is more beneficial for the following reasons.
Firstly, it is not easy for students to choose which major to pursue in the college. It is not uncommon for the entering students to ruminate on this months, if not, even years before they take a final decision. Students spend a quite a lot of time researching about different majors, talks to different people and discuss it with their peers. After choosing a major, they hope that they will enjoy learning every bit of it. However, since each major covers a braoder spectrum of subjects and topics, not of them can interest a student. This can be due to various reasons like - the topic is too complicated to understand, there is no much ciritical thinking in a ceratin topic, a subject does not have much practical application, etc. In such a scenario, it would be determintal for colleges to make it mandatory for students to pursue all the specified subjects. When the students are provided with electives, they have the freedom to choose those subjects that they are more interested in or choose those subjects they feel that are more relevant to the prevaling industry practices. Providing electives can instigate the students to pursue major more vivaciously as they are given what they have asked for. When the students are more engaged with the subjects, there is no doubt that the outcome would be better than if the students were not given electives. Therefore, providing electives helps the students engage better in the major they have choosen.
Secondly, providing electives can increase the capabilities of the students when they enter market. In the present world, applications requiring multi-disciplinary knowledge are increasing by leaps and bounds. Traditional course curriculums that contains courses related only to respective majors would not engender to produce engineers that have a holistic understanding of different fields. On the contrary, if the students are allowed to take electives from other majors, they will be congizant of how different fields can be melded to produce an outstanding product. For example, when I was pursuing graduation in civil engineering, I was allowed to choose a few subjects from Management Studies. The skills that I have learnt in those subjects help in managing my daily tasks adeptly which I would be able to do if I was not allowed to choose electives. Therefore, it is imperative in the current scenario to provide electives to the students.
However, some might argue that providing electives engenders confusion among students who are naive to choose what is good for them. This issue can be subjugated by providing counseling to the students.
To recapitulate, it is more beneficial for the Colleges and the Universities to provide electives as they can help increase student engagement in the academics and they also increase their efficiency in the job market by helping them acquire knowledge from different fields.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 146, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...or the entering students to ruminate on this months, if not, even years before they ...
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Line 4, column 633, Rule ID: NOW[2]
Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: now
...too complicated to understand, there is no much ciritical thinking in a ceratin to...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, for example, i feel, no doubt, of course, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.5258426966 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 55.0 33.0505617978 166% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 72.0 58.6224719101 123% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 12.9106741573 31% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2942.0 2235.4752809 132% => OK
No of words: 570.0 442.535393258 129% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16140350877 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.88617158649 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84312570048 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 256.0 215.323595506 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.449122807018 0.4932671777 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 923.4 704.065955056 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 6.24550561798 224% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.4118081406 60.3974514979 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.68 118.986275619 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8 23.4991977007 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.21951772744 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.286432742766 0.243740707755 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0963360493207 0.0831039109588 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0826770465792 0.0758088955206 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.18209830566 0.150359130593 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0944046126034 0.0667264976115 141% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.1392134831 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.41 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 133.0 100.480337079 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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