Some people believe that university students should be required to attend classes. Others believe that going to classes should be optional for students. Which point of view do you agree with? Use specific reasons and details to explain your answer.

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Some people believe that university students should be required to attend classes. Others believe that going to classes should be optional for students. Which point of view do you agree with? Use specific reasons and details to explain your answer.

I agree with the second point of view.

For one, college is not mandatory so it would be pointless to make attending classes a requirement. It seems obvious to me that anyone bothering to go to a college is aware of what they are doing it for and making them take classes, even the ones they do not find educating, would be a waste of their time. On the other hand, leaving it up to the students to decide which classes they participate in and which courses they want to use other resources for, would open up more pleasant and productive learning opportunities.

Another reason I do not like the idea of obligatory college classes is because it can be tough to keep up with them. A college class is a one size fits all type of a scenario while there are different people in the same class, sometimes with very different learning styles, learning speeds, and knowledge backgrounds. Therefore, only a little portion of the class would fit the profile and the rest would either lag behind or be limited by its progression speed. However, this could easily be resolved by probiding a syllabus and a loose, non-mandatory guideline for the students and letting them move their education forward however fits them the most.

The last issue that arises from forcing every student to attend each and every class is that the ones who are just their because of necessity would be distracting to other students and might disrupt the normal function of the class. In my experience, those who are not there for the education, due to any reason, tend to engage in other activities during class, from reading irrelevant books to chatting with their classmates and even napping during the class. These can be very distracting for the students who want to just focus on the course and absorb as much infromation as possible. These issues can mostly be avoided however, by leaving it to the students whether they attend their classes or not.

All in all, I believe college classes are an essential and inseparable part of higher education but must not be forced upon the students who cannot benefit from them.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, second, so, therefore, while, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 43.0788530466 79% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 52.1666666667 94% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1743.0 1977.66487455 88% => OK
No of words: 366.0 407.700716846 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.76229508197 4.8611393121 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37391431897 4.48103885553 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54582651482 2.67179642975 95% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 212.727598566 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.527322404372 0.524837075471 100% => OK
syllable_count: 547.2 618.680645161 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.51792114695 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 20.6003584229 63% => 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: 28.0 20.1344086022 139% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 56.3362684949 48.9658058833 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.076923077 100.406767564 134% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.1538461538 20.6045352989 137% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.45110844103 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 11.8709677419 34% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.278733258449 0.236089414692 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.11111133858 0.076458572812 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0351246904789 0.0737576698707 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.163600087369 0.150856017488 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0298760988993 0.0645574589148 46% => 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: 15.1 11.7677419355 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 58.1214874552 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 10.1575268817 128% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 10.9000537634 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.92 8.01818996416 99% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 86.8835125448 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 10.002688172 135% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.0537634409 131% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.247311828 137% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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