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 prefer to follow directions rather than make their own decisions.
Colleges and universities provide students with a variety of interesting courses. This will raise the question of if colleges and universities should specify all required courses and eliminate elective courses. In my opinion, I disagree with the statement.
Indeed, if colleges eliminate elective courses, students can spend more time on their mandatory courses of their fields. For example, when I was an undergraduate, I majored in computer science at National Taiwan University, which was the top-notch university in the entire world. I often had to deal with lots of extremely homework and courses projects of mandatory courses, such as data structure and algorithm. In the meantime, I also had to attend other elective courses to meet my graduation requirements. Thus, I did not have enough time to finish my homework of mandatory courses, and I often just got lower grades on these professional courses, such as B or C+. If I had had more time to copy with these homework, I might have been able to obtain better grades.
However, if colleges eliminate elective courses, students may not be able to understand the knowledge of other fields. For example, when I was an undergraduate. I was really interested in astronomy, and I wanted to learn this kind of professional knowledge from the professors. As a result, I attended a course named "Astronomy with artificial intelligence". The professor would combine the knowledge of computer science with astronomy, and the students of this courses would also had to finish a course project with classmates. In this class, I understood how the scientists utilized artificial intelligence and big data to deal with a good deal of astronomical issues. They could use this information to calculate the future position of asteroids and project that if these asteroids would hit the earth in the future. With this professional knowledge, I could design an artificial intelligence model to predict the lifetime of a star and when would these star become red giants.
Finally, our group got a first prize in the project contest of this courses, and I was recommended to a world-class software company as an intern by the professor of this course. After my graduation, I also received many interview opportunities of many famous enterprises, such as Google and Amazon, because I put this course project on my resume, and these companies would need many engineers being good at artificial intelligence urgently. By contrast, if I had not attended this course, I might have not been able to receive these interview chances from these first rate company.
Furthermore, if the students attend elective courses, they may be able to know other people from different department. For example, when I was an undergraduate, I once attended a class which was offered by the economic department. In this class, I learned lots of professional knowledge of economy from my classmate, and they taught me how to predict the trend of stocks and explained the definition of inflation. Also, we finished a course presentation in this course, and we discussed and exchanged our opinions with each other, and finally I got A in this course. In contrast, if I had not decided to attend this class, I might not been able to know these friends and understand the professional knowledge of economy.
To sum up, I disagree with the statement. Because students can learn many professional knowledge outside their fields, and these students can broaden their vision by learning this knowledge.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 706, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this homework' or 'these homeworks'?
Suggestion: this homework; these homeworks
...C+. If I had had more time to copy with these homework, I might have been able to obtain bette...
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Line 5, column 468, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...nce with astronomy, and the students of this courses would also had to finish a cour...
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Line 5, column 492, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'would' requires the base form of the verb: 'have'
Suggestion: have
...the students of this courses would also had to finish a course project with classma...
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Line 6, column 64, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...a first prize in the project contest of this courses, and I was recommended to a wor...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, may, really, so, thus, for example, in contrast, kind of, such as, as a result, in my opinion, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 70.0 33.0505617978 212% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 79.0 58.6224719101 135% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2958.0 2235.4752809 132% => OK
No of words: 574.0 442.535393258 130% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15331010453 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89472135074 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06944712669 2.79657885939 110% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 215.323595506 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.409407665505 0.4932671777 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 933.3 704.065955056 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 21.0 6.24550561798 336% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 13.0 3.10617977528 419% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 9.0 1.77640449438 507% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.5147733807 60.3974514979 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.555555556 118.986275619 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2592592593 23.4991977007 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.62962962963 5.21951772744 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.83258426966 248% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.163925690447 0.243740707755 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0599813271788 0.0831039109588 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0870227758044 0.0758088955206 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119659562856 0.150359130593 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0967171234703 0.0667264976115 145% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.1392134831 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.01 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 100.480337079 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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