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.
Many colleges today offer a plethora of elective courses for students to choose from. The speaker argues that instead of colleges providing options to students, they should restrict the courses to only required ones as students prefer to follow directions rather than making their own decisions. It may be true in some cases but such restriction would only cause problems for students who want to specifically choose the courses they want to study.
There are many students who have a clearly defined aim and want to study courses relevant to that. For example, consider a scenario where an engineering student in computer engineering field is admitted into a college. He might have specific interest to have a career in Computer Networking out of a variety of available domains such as database systems, computer architecture, ethical hacking, and many more. So in this case he would like to study subjects which would improve his skills and knowledge in computer networking. But, if the university restricts the courses and excludes this subject from the curriculum then it would not be in the best interest of that student.
Moreover, due to the myriad of courses available at a university, restricting syllabus to required courses might exclude many subjects which are of specific interests for many students. For example, universities might not include some subjects such as ethical hacking or machine learning in the list of courses which would dishearten those students who wanted to study these subjects because these had a direct bearing on their career.
The only case when have a restricted curriculum can prove to be useful is when student is unaware of his field of interest. In that scenario the student might not be able to make a decision about which elective courses he wants to study. But even in that case guidance and adequate counselling given to such students would be more beneficial than simply limiting the number of courses to necessary ones.
In conclusion, giving students choice to choose their electives is clearly in best interests of students. On the other hand, restricting curriculum to some specific courses by a college will only motivate students to not consider that particular college due to lack of options. Therefore, universities and colleges should not restrict the courses a student should can study.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, may, moreover, so, then, therefore, for example, in conclusion, of course, such as, in some cases, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.5258426966 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 33.0505617978 70% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 58.6224719101 94% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 12.9106741573 15% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1992.0 2235.4752809 89% => OK
No of words: 382.0 442.535393258 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.21465968586 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42095241839 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70384381214 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 182.0 215.323595506 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.476439790576 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 621.9 704.065955056 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.2370786517 79% => 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: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.0773207251 60.3974514979 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.5 118.986275619 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.875 23.4991977007 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.8125 5.21951772744 150% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.327737897435 0.243740707755 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.129887117025 0.0831039109588 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0982189701897 0.0758088955206 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.211002963932 0.150359130593 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.101632083511 0.0667264976115 152% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.1392134831 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.1639044944 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 100.480337079 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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