In order to become well-rounded individuals, all college students should be required to take courses in which they read poetry, novels, mythology, and other types of imaginative literature.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agre

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In order to become well-rounded individuals, all college students should be required to take courses in which they read poetry, novels, mythology, and other types of imaginative literature.

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.

School students have poetry and classics as a part of their curriculum. It is generally in the teenage years where one explores the world of novels and such imaginative literature. Various colleges also provide electives or options to students for taking up courses in mythologies and others that encourage imagination. However, it should not be made compulsory for all students in college to take up some courses in literature.
Firstly, colleges generally offer degree courses that take three or four years to complete. Devoting time to imaginative literature means taking away time from core courses. There is already various number of courses that have to be taught which makes taking out time for other activities difficult. It would be prudent for students to devote time to study a field in depth.
Also, people do not see direct impact of taking up such courses. Students are willing to take courses that help them prepare a refined and specific resume to impress their employer. Students are willing to take up esoteric topics in their own fields rather than take up something in a different field. The main purpose of graduating, it seems today, has been limited to achieving a high paying job, and increasing competition is supporting this attitude. Today colleges are judged by the criteria of average pay their students receive on campus placements. This encourages colleges to prepare students for the careers rather than for a life. The ultimate quest for the students is to be able to get a job at their dream companies. Hence, students nor colleges are inclined to the proposal of making imaginative literature mandatory.
However, in some of the private colleges that are already well reputed and need not worry about placements, can give this proposal a try. It would be beneficial as imagination is required in every innovation. Though, it may be hard to see short term benefits, in the long run this scheme could pay off by giving their students a edge over the others. Nonetheless, such scheme will require the support from both the student and the college faculty, as forced curriculum will not be fruitful.
Thus, majority of the colleges where the focus of study is the core subject, courses on imaginative literature will take up time without providing instant positive results. There may be limited number of institutes where students and college are willing to take up this opportunity.

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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'first', 'firstly', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'nonetheless', 'so', 'thus', 'well', 'as for', 'of course']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.256880733945 0.240241500013 107% => OK
Verbs: 0.172018348624 0.157235817809 109% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0871559633028 0.0880659088768 99% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0412844036697 0.0497285424764 83% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0298165137615 0.0444667217837 67% => OK
Prepositions: 0.100917431193 0.12292977631 82% => OK
Participles: 0.045871559633 0.0406280797675 113% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.68770321921 2.79330140395 96% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0389908256881 0.030933414821 126% => OK
Particles: 0.0229357798165 0.0016655270985 1377% => OK
Determiners: 0.0802752293578 0.0997080785238 81% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0252293577982 0.0249443105267 101% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0206422018349 0.0148568991511 139% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2419.0 2732.02544248 89% => OK
No of words: 399.0 452.878318584 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.0626566416 6.0361032391 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46933824581 4.58838876751 97% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.393483709273 0.366273622748 107% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.308270676692 0.280924506359 110% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.210526315789 0.200843997647 105% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.110275689223 0.132149295362 83% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68770321921 2.79330140395 96% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 219.290929204 93% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.511278195489 0.48968727796 104% => OK
Word variations: 56.4081751713 55.4138127331 102% => OK
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6194690265 107% => OK
Sentence length: 18.1363636364 23.380412469 78% => OK
Sentence length SD: 28.6482298647 59.4972553346 48% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.954545455 141.124799967 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.1363636364 23.380412469 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.590909090909 0.674092028746 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.21349557522 58% => OK
Readability: 48.9634313055 51.4728631049 95% => OK
Elegance: 1.66037735849 1.64882698954 101% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.385884303619 0.391690518653 99% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.108292417872 0.123202303941 88% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0656040027949 0.077325440228 85% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.496869514006 0.547984918172 91% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.114329442908 0.149214159877 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.137655529477 0.161403998019 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0610664903359 0.0892212321368 68% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.30020852964 0.385218514788 78% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0255567119656 0.0692045440612 37% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.250373650039 0.275328986314 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0571154174743 0.0653680567796 87% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.4325221239 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.30420353982 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88274336283 123% => OK
Positive topic words: 11.0 7.22455752212 152% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 3.66592920354 109% => OK
Neutral topic words: 6.0 2.70907079646 221% => OK
Total topic words: 21.0 13.5995575221 154% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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