Governments should offer college and university education free of charge to all students Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take In develo

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Governments should offer college and university education free of charge to all students.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.

Some people argue that higher education, especially universities and colleges, should be free to all students, and the government should pay for the expenses. While I acknolowdge the merit of this idea, some of which I will discuss in the article, I do not find this recommendation captivating.

First of all, by making the the students pay for the tuition, the students will be more willing to study hard. I am not arguing that the tuitions should be very high to make the students study, but instead when the tuitions are waived, there may be some students treating the higher educations like free lunches falling off from the sky and do not appreciate their importances. I acknowledge that some students churish free educations, so I would argue that if most students do not appreciate free educations, which I believe is the case in my home country, the universities and the colleges should not be free.

Moreover, if the schools earn their fundings partially from the students, they have more incentives to improve their teaching qualities and infrastuctures. In fact, as a student who is deciding which school to attend, I, as well as many of my classmates, often take the teaching quality, especially the teacher-student ratios, and the tuition into consideration, and there are some schools we consider too expensive given the terrible teacher-student ratios. Therefore, if it is the case that the school would be enticed to improve their qualities in order to obtain students' tuitions, the universities and the colleges should not be free.

Some would argue that higher educations are benefitial to the youth in this era, so the higher education should be free. Although there are indeed many advantages of gaining better trainings and diplomas, one should also recognize that not everyone needs higher educations. There are some jobs that do not require higher educations' training, let alone degrees. For example, in my home country, plumbers are trained in vocational schools or learn directly from the practitioners. The college degrees are useless for them. Moreover, even if higher educations are so important such that we should relieve some burdens on the potential students, it's unclear why the educations should be completely free and the government should pay for it.

Others may also argue free higher educations help solve economical and social inequality by letting more minorities to get better educations. I do find this argument compelling. There are many minorities and economically disadvantaged youth cannot get good-quality higher educations due to the high tuitions. While free universities and colleges can solve the issue, it does not imply that this is the only solution or the best solution. The government may offer scholarships to these students instead of paying for all students. If there are some other ways to improve offer low cost educations to the disadvantaged, there is no need for free colleges and universities.

In conclusion, I argue that universities and colleges should not be free. While there are some advantages of providing free higher edcuations, some other methods without falling into the aforementioned problems also exist. Therefore, universities and colleges should not be free.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, moreover, so, therefore, well, while, for example, in conclusion, in fact, as well as, first of all

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.4196629213 185% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 33.0505617978 124% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 39.0 58.6224719101 67% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2735.0 2235.4752809 122% => OK
No of words: 520.0 442.535393258 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25961538462 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77530192783 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98508062889 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 215.323595506 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.434615384615 0.4932671777 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
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: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 10.0 3.10617977528 322% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.4505686577 60.3974514979 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.913043478 118.986275619 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6086956522 23.4991977007 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.47826086957 5.21951772744 105% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => 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: 0.21917212854 0.243740707755 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.080308966802 0.0831039109588 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0531379788767 0.0758088955206 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136822899562 0.150359130593 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0238748820267 0.0667264976115 36% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 14.1392134831 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.1639044944 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.95 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 100.480337079 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => 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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