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.
Quality higher education is crucial for any society to thrive, and many professions, such as doctor, lawyer, and teacher even require graduate degrees. The United States is fortunate to have excellent colleges and universities from coast to coast. However, tuition continues to rise significantly, which prevented students from enrolling or left them saddled with debt upon graduating. Unfortunately, minority students seem to be most affected by this trend. The statement proposes a policy that was debated during this most recent election season and is prevalent in Europe. All students should have access to higher education (if desired) but all students should not be offered college and university education free of charge.
The government offering college and university education free of charge to all students would likely help to ensure that all students have equal opportunities to pursue higher education. However, it would not be fiscally responsible of the government to do so. First, not all students need have to their education funded by the government. The most economically efficient policy would have all families pay as much as tuition as they can afford. For example, two parents with a net worth in the seven figures and only one child, can certainly afford to comfortably pay the tuition for any school their child decides to attend. If the government paid for that child’s tuition, the tax burden would be shifted to families who are less well-off. In addition, the tuition paid by wealthier families can help pay the tuition for families who desperately the financial assistance.
Furthermore, the best schools in this country, such as Harvard and Columbia, have invested heavily in resources to enhance the learning of their students. The ability to invest in these resources would be less feasible if tuition were free. Not to mention the ability to fund student housing upgrades, offer competitive salaries to the best professors, and other enriching student programs such as Study Abroad. For example, I attended McGill University in Montreal, which is a highly regarded university that offers cheap tuition Canadian citizens. The university therefore relies heavily on government funding, which was in short supply due to an economic recession during my four years. As a result, the university started to fall in the rankings due to not being able to keep pace with the wealthier American universities when it came to investing in the resources mentioned above.
While it is an honorable goal to provide all students the chance to attend college or university for free, it is nonetheless important to consider the ability for students to finance their education on a case-by-case basis. Just like businesses, the growth of schools correlates strongly with funding.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, however, if, nonetheless, so, therefore, well, while, for example, in addition, in short, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 33.0505617978 61% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 58.6224719101 104% => OK
Nominalization: 27.0 12.9106741573 209% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2360.0 2235.4752809 106% => OK
No of words: 444.0 442.535393258 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31531531532 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5903493882 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82009324294 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 236.0 215.323595506 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.531531531532 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 742.5 704.065955056 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 11.0 4.99550561798 220% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.5345531141 60.3974514979 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.380952381 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1428571429 23.4991977007 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.42857142857 5.21951772744 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.239337697342 0.243740707755 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0730557412312 0.0831039109588 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0680167762932 0.0758088955206 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.154500576342 0.150359130593 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.02096596136 0.0667264976115 31% => 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: 14.2 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.8420337079 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.1639044944 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.05 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 123.0 100.480337079 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 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: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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