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.
In colleges and universities you will always have different types of students, not only related to their majors, but also the way that they perceive knowledge. Some students can think for themselves and already know what they want and how to pursue it at a relatively Young age, but the majority, due to inexperience prefer to be guided by someone that has more years of practice. In my opinion, a greater percentage of students benefits from having an institution dictate what they will study and the reasons are as follow.
To begin, having someone to point the right direction helps students to be less worried with their choices. This is especially true for students that are around their early twenties. The majority of students are kids that just got out of high school, probably leaving on their own homes for the first time. The first semesters of college can be very tough because of the reality shock that students face. Statistics show that students that go through counseling, that are constantly in contact with other students and that have well thought strategy to go through their university time have a much greater chance of finishing their studies in due time and achieve their goals. Since students tend to be somewhat irresponsible and lazy, one of the best ways to enhance the chances of success would be to eliminate all unnecessary courses and leave them with the bare minimum.
Furthermore, giving the necessary content and information will most likely make students experts in the field instead of a wide view student. This is particularly important in fields of engineering and sciences. ANEEL, a major company in the electrical department in Brazil, is always recruting new talents. Although they clearly state in the application that there is nothing that impedes anyone to try out for a position, a great deal of candidates that are hired have a masters degree in electrical engineering or more. But, there are also some people that are hired and that have only a bachelors degree. These bachelors degree candidates present a high level of knowledge and maturity for their age and position that can only be achieved from a strong background in electrical power systems. Thus, the university and the specific curriculum that they choose can have a big impact in such positions.
Admittedly, there are some students that are mature enough to dictate their own rhythm. These students tend to be a little bit older, sometimes already having some job experience in the past that lead them to choose their future studies. In these cases, students have a better chance of being succesful out to the university when they have the freedom to choose the path in which they want to pursue. For instance, students that have a technical background, technicians, already have a good understanding of the technical contents that will be taught at the universities courses. These students would benefit from doing different types of courses that, in their experience, can help them become better employees and thinkers in the future.
In conclusion, although there are some students that benefit from having more freedom to choose their study path, the majority would certainly benefit even more from having the university trace the path to success.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 515, Rule ID: AS_FOLLOW[1]
Message: Did you mean 'as follows'?
Suggestion: as follows
...hat they will study and the reasons are as follow. To begin, having someone to point th...
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Line 3, column 616, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rsity time have a much greater chance of finishing their studies in due time and ...
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Line 7, column 117, Rule ID: LITTLE_BIT[1]
Message: Reduce redundancy by using 'little' or 'bit'.
Suggestion: little; bit
...own rhythm. These students tend to be a little bit older, sometimes already having some jo...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...that, in their experience, can help them become better employees and thinkers in ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, if, so, thus, well, for instance, in conclusion, of course, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 24.0 11.3162921348 212% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 54.0 33.0505617978 163% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 74.0 58.6224719101 126% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2736.0 2235.4752809 122% => OK
No of words: 541.0 442.535393258 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0573012939 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82280071112 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63443976147 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 265.0 215.323595506 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489833641405 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 847.8 704.065955056 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.7265228374 60.3974514979 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.363636364 118.986275619 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5909090909 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.72727272727 5.21951772744 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => 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: 0.185721995967 0.243740707755 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0584408391478 0.0831039109588 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0300073018876 0.0758088955206 40% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.104829981504 0.150359130593 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0417804121654 0.0667264976115 63% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.1392134831 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.01 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 100.480337079 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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