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.
University is a place where students learn many new things. Should university provide degrees with a diverse set of courses or a specific set of speciality courses? The author claims that universities should only allow students to take up specific required courses as students would prefer to follow directions rather than making their own choices. I concede with the authors view however, I believe that universities should set specific required courses at the same also allow students to take certain electives as this provides them with better exposure on to various subjects and expand their knowledge. I feel this way for several reasons.
First of all, the approach for making a curriculum depends on the level of degree on is talking about. At an undergraduate level universities should mandate students to take up certain specific courses as per the degree requirement and should also them to select courses from various different backgrounds as electives. This gives them an opportunity to explore their interests and take up graduate studies accordingly. For instance most universities allow undergraduate students to take up electives. As Steve Job the founder of Apple Macntosh shares his life experience during his college days he has attended a course on Calligraphy which is divergent from a course from his regular engineering course has helped him in creating the option of various font types in our Mac. He attributes the font options in computers to that elective course that he has attended. So it is imperative that universities provide students with option of electives so that they can explore their interests well.
In Contrast, When it comes to graduate level courses there should be specific set speciality course manadeted for the students as it helps them increasing their future academic and employment opportunities, but not because it helps them in following the guidelines. Furthermore, taking up speciality course is often important at a gradute level as students with a speciality knowledge is are preferred by the companies than students without specific speciality.
So In conclusion, universities should take a dialectic approach and provide students specific set of required courses at the same time also allow them to take elective from wide variety of subjects in order to expand their knowledge and explores their interests and pursue them further
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 503, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...graduate students to take up electives. As Steve Job the founder of Apple Macntosh...
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Line 5, column 145, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[9]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to increase' or 'increase'.
Suggestion: to increase; increase
...deted for the students as it helps them increasing their future academic and employment op...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, so, well, for instance, i feel, in conclusion, in contrast, of course, talking about, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 19.5258426966 41% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 58.6224719101 92% => 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: 2019.0 2235.4752809 90% => OK
No of words: 379.0 442.535393258 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.327176781 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41224685777 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88152259969 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 215.323595506 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.469656992084 0.4932671777 95% => OK
syllable_count: 638.1 704.065955056 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.2370786517 74% => 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: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 82.5125983647 60.3974514979 137% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.6 118.986275619 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.2666666667 23.4991977007 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.3333333333 5.21951772744 198% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 5.13820224719 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.344745906128 0.243740707755 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.129203303106 0.0831039109588 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0826037823891 0.0758088955206 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.227439981651 0.150359130593 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0631281418911 0.0667264976115 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 14.1392134831 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 48.8420337079 77% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.93 12.1639044944 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.33 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 100.480337079 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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