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

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 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 cliché 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 counseling 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 educational counselors or career guides 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 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.

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Average: 5.4 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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 ...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 590, 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 ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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 : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => 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: 37.0 33.0505617978 112% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 58.6224719101 114% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2179.0 2235.4752809 97% => OK
No of words: 433.0 442.535393258 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03233256351 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56165014514 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74303264436 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 227.0 215.323595506 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.524249422633 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 682.2 704.065955056 97% => 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
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.7823816007 60.3974514979 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.7391304348 118.986275619 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8260869565 23.4991977007 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.91304347826 5.21951772744 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => 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: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.32887781195 0.243740707755 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0803763859392 0.0831039109588 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0592776057762 0.0758088955206 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.170890374924 0.150359130593 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0606920472133 0.0667264976115 91% => 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: 7.96 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 100.480337079 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
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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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: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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