• Some university professors let their students choose their research topics themselves. Some do not. Which one do you think is better? Why?
A glance at students’ attitude toward choosing the research topics, brings to the light a question that has been asking several times, namely, professors must let students to choose the topics or not. Some people believe that if students make the decision about topics, they are more willing to finish the research projects. However, in my opinion, as a graduated pharmacy student, I assert that professors are more qualified to suggest the best and newest topics for researches.
The foremost reason why I am supporting this idea lies in the fact that teachers in a specific science area have more knowledge about ongoing and effective researches. For example, when I wanted to choose a subject for my thesis, I preferred to work on a specific human breast cancer cell, but my advisor recommendation was to focus on mouse’s colon cancer cells, since it is easier to purchase and reproduce them. If I did not listen to her, I had to study two years more which was not what I wanted. Students must trust their instructors experience and knowledge. Therefore, Supervisors are more qualified to decide about research topics and guide their pupils to follow a logical method.
Another subtle point that I should deem is the fact that if students just work on topics they like and are interested to, later in their carrier, when they encounter boring subjects, they do not know what to do and the problems arise. A study at Harvard University, department of psychology, shows that people who force themselves to do unpleasant tasks and stay patient, they will be more successful in their life and career, compared with control group who just kept doing normal and ordinary responsibilities. If everybody just does whatever s/he likes, s/he cannot overcome unwanted situation and feels failure. Hence, doing researches that are not our favorite, raises our abilities and improves us.
Admittedly, people can finish tasks which they like better and earlier. A person whose passion is genetics probably cannot concentrate well on immunology subjects. But my opinion is that if the person compel herself to complete it, afterward she can do harder and harder duties without problem which is favorable. So, although staying at comfort zone has some advantages, the benefits of jumping out of it is more important.
Due to the aforementioned argument explored in the previous statements, I highly recommend students to accept their professors suggested topics and increase their capabilities.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, hence, however, if, so, therefore, well, as to, for example, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 15.1003584229 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.0286738351 154% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 43.0788530466 111% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 52.1666666667 82% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.0752688172 87% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2098.0 1977.66487455 106% => OK
No of words: 405.0 407.700716846 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18024691358 4.8611393121 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48604634366 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81341312295 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 212.727598566 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.587654320988 0.524837075471 112% => OK
syllable_count: 644.4 618.680645161 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.51792114695 199% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => 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: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.0433475303 48.9658058833 129% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.411764706 100.406767564 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8235294118 20.6045352989 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.64705882353 5.45110844103 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.313880708952 0.236089414692 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0842325167451 0.076458572812 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0591727634912 0.0737576698707 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.157951772903 0.150856017488 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0467816188309 0.0645574589148 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 11.7677419355 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 58.1214874552 83% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.1575268817 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.06 10.9000537634 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.38 8.01818996416 117% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 86.8835125448 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.002688172 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 88.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 26.5 Out of 30
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