Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
Today’s tuition bills have students and families quivering. With tuition prices alone reaching over ten thousand dollars a year for in-state tuition, students of all economic backgrounds are looking for ways to cut costs. Many look to eliminate breadth courses that fall outside of one’s area of study in hopes of saving precious times and thousands of dollars. While that may help some student’s money, the cost of cutting these breadth courses far out ways the marginal hundreds of dollars each student would save in the long hall. Students should be required to take a variety of courses even if they fall outside of their area of focus for several reasons.
Students wouldn’t actually save a significant amount of time or money. Using degree plans from UW – Madison as an example, students are required to take two or three elective or humanities credits maximum. At an average of three credit hours for each class and a minimum credit load of 12 credit hours per semester, no longer requiring these humanities courses would not save university students from spending another semester at their college. One might argue that eliminating those nine credits would allow a student to just take one class for a semester, however, students must be enrolled fulltime in order to be eligible for financial aid, and with today’s tuition costs, even class is often too much financial burden for a young adult from an average family. In the end, the only people benefitting from cutting these classes would be the wealthier students who are able to pay for classes without financial aid.
Diving further into the idea of unfairly benefiting wealthy students and families; the extremely expensive tuition costs have created a financial barrier for many students preventing them from attending high-cost, high-achieving schools creating a monoculture in most high-power campuses. By eliminating these breadth courses, we could potentially eliminate the only source of diverse perspective these students and future leaders experience. Students that come from wealthy, often white families attend wealthy, often white Universities that are supposed to expand their minds with new ideas. These wealthy students lose out on this opportunity when they attend a school surrounded by students with the same wealthy background, leaving their only hope for education on diversity being through these breadth courses. By no longer making these classes a requirement, these soon-to-be leaders from high power colleges will be disconnected from the real world and perpetuate the same cycle of ineffective and marginalizing society we have today.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 229, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun look seems to be countable; consider using: 'Many looks'.
Suggestion: Many looks
...unds are looking for ways to cut costs. Many look to eliminate breadth courses that fall ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, however, if, look, may, so, while, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 58.6224719101 99% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2242.0 2235.4752809 100% => OK
No of words: 417.0 442.535393258 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.37649880096 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5189133491 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72719338257 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 236.0 215.323595506 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.565947242206 0.4932671777 115% => OK
syllable_count: 686.7 704.065955056 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.2370786517 74% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.5870358296 60.3974514979 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 149.466666667 118.986275619 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.8 23.4991977007 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.6 5.21951772744 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.97078651685 60% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.190994443881 0.243740707755 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.082403901397 0.0831039109588 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0446277704422 0.0758088955206 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.144485721747 0.150359130593 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0392312796328 0.0667264976115 59% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.8 14.1392134831 126% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.22 12.1639044944 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.29 8.38706741573 111% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 100.480337079 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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