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 rat

Courses offered by the college and universities are pivotal in shaping the career of every student. Learning a course with interest makes it both easier for the student to learn and student tries to excel in that course. The author's issue only takes into account a fewer cases neglecting the modern age students who are more independent. These students having the knowledge of what works for them are assiduous in choosing accordingly in this developing world. Due to the exclusion of such major cases and some minor ones, I disagree with the author on his statement.

Although colleges are abreast with the developements of world. Enforcing such curriculum in unessential for a number of reasons. For one, these elective courses can be useful to a student who is totally unaware of the subject. Consider the case of Steve Jobs, during his time in university, he once attended a class on calligraphy which is outside of his pursuing field. This became useful while developing Apple products in imparting the fonts to develop a very exquisite UI. Without this particular innovation Apple would not had ascended any closer to what it is today.

Similarly, a student would like to enroll in an elective course which may be easier to get passed or he may have interest in that particular course. Removing such courses altogether would make students to enroll the subjects from their field of study. This may lead to extra stress thereby making it hard to complete the courses. No one would know which type of knowledge would be useful in future. Apart from this, these elective courses sometimes are useful in educating the basic societal or environmental knowledge which is very useful for a graduate living in that society. Such electives may includes
global warming, sex education etc.,

Although such is the case, there are some predicaments in enforcing elective courses. Mandating a elective course might put extra burden in the form to tuition fee, student time and sometimes extra stay in the college. The reason that author mentioned is flawed on the contention that students who do not prefer electives may not have any clarity on his career or may feared of the choice going wrong way. But with each generation of students, are becoming more independent.

Therfore, elective courses are to be included in the college or university curriculum which brings value to a student's career - in unintended ways. Removing such courses may benefit in rare cases but the value it brings might be immense.

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Average: 5.4 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Although” 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.
...ee with the author on his statement. Although colleges are abreast with the developem...
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Message: The verb 'would' requires the base form of the verb: 'have'
Suggestion: have
...s particular innovation Apple would not had ascended any closer to what it is today...
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Line 5, column 389, Rule ID: IN_PAST[1]
Message: Did you mean: 'in the future'?
Suggestion: in the future
...which type of knowledge would be useful in future. Apart from this, these elective course...
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Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...n enforcing elective courses. Mandating a elective course might put extra burden ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, may, similarly, so, while, apart from

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 33.0505617978 79% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 58.6224719101 102% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2097.0 2235.4752809 94% => OK
No of words: 417.0 442.535393258 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02877697842 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5189133491 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62063513902 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 213.0 215.323595506 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.510791366906 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 678.6 704.065955056 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.9680196279 60.3974514979 58% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 95.3181818182 118.986275619 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9545454545 23.4991977007 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.5 5.21951772744 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.207840373691 0.243740707755 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0665497894652 0.0831039109588 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0626042537221 0.0758088955206 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108189820981 0.150359130593 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0545090730526 0.0667264976115 82% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 14.1392134831 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 48.8420337079 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.43 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 100.480337079 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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