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.
A nations most important natural resource is its citizens. Education plays a pivotal role inincreasing the quality of the said natural resource. Should the education institutions, such as colleges and universities, have fixed syllabus or should the students be free to choose their own subjects is much debated issue. Many believe that fixed curriculum courses are better to provide clear guidance to students, since students prefer not to make their own decision. I completely disagree with this notion and the reason provided to support it. This essay provides a perspective that is adverse to the one said in prompt.
First, Education institutions like Universities and colleges provide tertiary education. The aim of the tertiary education is to prepare students to function at full capacity in specific domain of various industries. For example, students enrolled for Mechanical engieering course is given knowledge to perfrom well in industries, where technical knowledge about various machinery and fundamental laws of working,related for that specific industry, are necessery. Allowing students to choose their own elective according to their apptitude helps them become highly skilled in that particular field, since they chose the course for which they have passion and aptitude.
In addition, by the time students enroll in college or universities, they are legelly adults. Therefore, even if we agree that specification of required courses migh be helpful, the reason that they are unable to make their own decision is baseless one. Moreover, the students in colleges and unversities are vocal and well aware of their needs and aspirations and how to achieve them. Let us consider an example Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, two famous companies. Elon made the decision to drop out of college, since the courses he was offered didnt interest him. Now, almost a decade later, he has become a household name and celebrity. There are plenty other examples which prove that students are quite capable of making theor own decisions.
In conclusion, the idea of fixed curriculum is well suited till high school level. However, it doesnt work well at higher levels of education. Students should be able to choose what they want to learn and what skills they acquire in order to succeed in achieving thier career goals.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, however, if, moreover, so, therefore, well, for example, in addition, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 12.4196629213 24% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 33.0505617978 97% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 58.6224719101 82% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1972.0 2235.4752809 88% => OK
No of words: 372.0 442.535393258 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.30107526882 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.39173103935 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75579461813 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 221.0 215.323595506 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.594086021505 0.4932671777 120% => OK
syllable_count: 626.4 704.065955056 89% => 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: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 48.6717577246 60.3974514979 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.6 118.986275619 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.6 23.4991977007 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.95 5.21951772744 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.281302028967 0.243740707755 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0707008407084 0.0831039109588 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0700493921689 0.0758088955206 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.152369968413 0.150359130593 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0670786078547 0.0667264976115 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.46 12.1639044944 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.33 8.38706741573 111% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 100.480337079 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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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