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.
Clear guidance does not mean that students should be coerced into taking subjects that are not going to be useful for them in any manner. Therefore universities specifying all required courses abate students' learning capability and enthusiasm for specific subjects. Instead, elective courses should me made partially mandatory in all colleges and universities where they are currently not. It encourages students to dedicate more time to the subject of their interest. On the other hand, it is true that giving complete freedom of choice confuses students on various levels. Therefore they need some kind of guidance. Either in the form of partially fixed choice of course, or be it an education counselor to guide them to their goals.
Moreover, the reason provided for claim is misguiding and not in coherence with the claim. Ample amount of liberty is provided in education. The basic idea of education is to make one capable of thinking independently and dynamically. To make them able to realize what is good for them and what is not. It is not about making students docile enough to follow directions at every step. The reason provided, suggests that institutions are only debilitating the cognition of students. The reason appears to censure what educational institutes stands for. Take for instance the cliche example of judging a fish by its capabilities of climbing tree. Universities do not want to do that. Instead letting the fish choose its own set of skills to prove its worth sounds a lot better idea.
However, the problem of confusion which is there during the time of choosing subjects is a reality. But this does not mean that students should be strapped off their rights to do so. To tackle the problem universities and schools have career guidance and educational counselling departments. It is their purpose to sort out the confusion for students taking admission into college. Same has been implemented recently in India. Where until recently there were no education counselor or career guide available to help students to better understand what is good for their career. And still a large number of colleges and universities are teaching a prefixed set of subjects in most of their courses. Because of which the students end up wasting their time learning things that may never prove useful to them in their line of job.
Conclusively, it is true that in general people like to get some directions, but it is only when their discern is limited. Once they get the understanding of what they need and how to achieve it, no one would like to be pushed around only to follow directions.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 140, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...g to be useful for them in any manner. Therefore universities specifying all required co...
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Line 1, column 577, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...ce confuses students on various levels. Therefore they need some kind of guidance. Either...
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Line 3, column 683, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Instead,
...e. Universities do not want to do that. Instead letting the fish choose its own set of ...
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Line 5, column 498, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...e no education counselor or career guide available to help students to better und...
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Line 5, column 589, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
...hat is good for their career. And still a large number of colleges and universities are teaching ...
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Line 5, column 699, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Because” 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.
...t of subjects in most of their courses. Because of which the students end up wasting th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, moreover, so, still, therefore, thus, for instance, in general, kind of, of course, it is true, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 58.6224719101 114% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2181.0 2235.4752809 98% => OK
No of words: 436.0 442.535393258 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.00229357798 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56953094068 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73556364094 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 227.0 215.323595506 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.520642201835 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 684.9 704.065955056 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.740449438202 135% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.3001899155 60.3974514979 50% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 80.7777777778 118.986275619 68% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.1481481481 23.4991977007 69% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.03703703704 5.21951772744 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.311353855371 0.243740707755 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0696629271009 0.0831039109588 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0579486857251 0.0758088955206 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.160984328372 0.150359130593 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0567978795157 0.0667264976115 85% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.2 14.1392134831 72% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 48.8420337079 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => Flesch kincaid grade is low.
coleman_liau_index: 11.42 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.94 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 100.480337079 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => Gunning_fog is low.
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 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: conclusion.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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