Universities should require students to take courses only within those fields they are interested in studying. Write a response in which you discuss your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider the possible consequences of implementing the policy and explain how these consequences shape your position.
The courses students take in their university career shape their future academic and career lives. Therefore, wrong decisions when selecting courses to take could deem all or a part of the student’s time spent in university obsolete. As to the fact that most undergraduate students don’t have a clear idea about the possible paths in front of them, their true interest and the demands of the job market, it’s best that the courses in undergraduate curriculum aren’t selected solely based on the students’ interests. This, however, doesn’t hold for graduate students.
University life is different from school in many ways, and one of the primary areas in which the two differ, is that the students are given a wide variety of choices in the university. All of a sudden, they can choose whether to attend lectures, to hand in homeworks or to chose to study instead of partying away the nights. Successfully making the right choices during the first years of Univeristy doesn’t come easy for most undergraduate students. Although giving the students the possibility to chose their courses based on their interests, could lead to them becoming extremely more adept in their field of interest, this approach tends to be detrimental for most naive students that are transitioning into university life. Undergraduate students of the third or last year and graduate students, however, are experienced enough to benefit from this approach to a great extent.
Undoubtedly, chosing courses according to one’s interest, goals and capabalities, is the best way to proceed, as it leads to the students studying more effectively and becoming experts in the area in which they want to continue career or studies instead of turning them into jacks of all trades. However, it also takes away the possibility of exploring fields about which the students might not have had any idea before. In the early years of university when most students aren’t certain about what’s right for them, passing general courses on various subjects could help them find what they’re interested in. For instance, during my first years of college, I had no idea what field I wanted to continue my studies in. I wasn’t even sure if I wanted to get a Master’s degree. In fact, it wasn’t until my required courses on Machine Learning and my curricular internship, which I carried out in the field of Artificial Intelligence, that my goal of getting an Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence became evident to me. Hadn’t it been for the required courses that I took on the subject, it would have never occured to me that I could find this field interesting.
To conclude, the pressure that comes with transition into university life combined with the naivity of undergraduate students makes the selection of courses based on students’ interests, quite a risky approach. However, for graduate students this approach could substantially contribute to their success.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 958, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, so, therefore, third, as to, for instance, in fact, of course, to a great extent
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 19.5258426966 41% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 33.0505617978 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 77.0 58.6224719101 131% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2494.0 2235.4752809 112% => OK
No of words: 479.0 442.535393258 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20668058455 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67825486995 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85193499917 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 237.0 215.323595506 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.494780793319 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 752.4 704.065955056 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 73.7944258325 60.3974514979 122% => OK
Chars per sentence: 138.555555556 118.986275619 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.6111111111 23.4991977007 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.16666666667 5.21951772744 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.204334440667 0.243740707755 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0694490806801 0.0831039109588 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0360348289658 0.0758088955206 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131971455253 0.150359130593 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0363086155457 0.0667264976115 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 14.1392134831 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.1639044944 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.39 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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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