Some people claim that colleges and universities should specify all the required courses and eliminate elective courses on the premise that people in general prefer to follow directions rather than make their own decisions. Although eliminating elective course may have some positive outcomes, I strongly disagree that the elective courses should be eliminated for the reasons stated below.
First off, there are some benefits to eliminating the elective classes. If the elective classes were gone, then it would give students more time to focus on the classes related to their degree. Certain degrees, like most physical sciences, require more specific classes than other degrees, like social sciences. With more time to focus on the specific classes it would make those people have a more comprehensive knowledge of their subject matter and make them better trained in their field. It will also ensure that the students entering graduate school will have taken all the same classes, instead of them taking some random electives. For example I am applying to graduate school and am realizing that many programs I want to enter want the student to have completed organic chemistry, but that was not a requirement for me to graduate. If the university was more specified in the classes the students should take then it would be more beneficial for the students.
Eliminating electives can be beneficial, but not for the reasoning given for this claim.
In the prompt above the reasoning for getting rid of the elective classes is that college students -- like people in general -- prefer to follow directions rather than make their own decisions. I agree that some people may like following directions, but I argue that everyone is different, and many people are the opposite and resist authority. I, myself am a good example of this. I listen to other peoples advice, however I do not do well when people tell me exactly what to do. I also enjoyed the freedom to decide some of the classes that I was going to take during college. Electives are important because they give the student some freedom and for another reason.
Another reason electives are important is because it broadens the knowledge of the individual. It is important that every person entering a field does not have the same breath of knowledge, so that problems can be solved. Problems are solved by people discussing differing opinions and synthesizing everyone's knowledge. Without differences problems would never be solved.
In conclusion there are some benefits to eliminating electives, but the reason is not that people prefer to follow directions. I believe that eliminating electives would have more negative effects than positives ones.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...hen people tell me exactly what to do. I also enjoyed the freedom to decide some...
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.... I also enjoyed the freedom to decide some of the classes that I was going to take during...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, so, then, well, for example, in conclusion, in general, all the same
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 33.0505617978 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 58.6224719101 75% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 12.9106741573 8% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2285.0 2235.4752809 102% => OK
No of words: 440.0 442.535393258 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.19318181818 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57997565096 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63446068101 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 215.323595506 95% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.463636363636 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 739.8 704.065955056 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 0.0 4.99550561798 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.175971787 60.3974514979 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.863636364 118.986275619 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 23.4991977007 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.72727272727 5.21951772744 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
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: 0.422932001133 0.243740707755 174% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.121756068227 0.0831039109588 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.154451295495 0.0758088955206 204% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.234930738911 0.150359130593 156% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.170907743745 0.0667264976115 256% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.1392134831 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.8420337079 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 12.1639044944 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 100.480337079 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => 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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