Claim: Colleges and universities should specify all required courses and eliminate elective courses in order to provide clear guidance for students.
Reason: College students—like people in general—prefer to follow directions rather than make their own decisions.
The author of the issue claims that it is incumbent upon academic settings to provide an opportunity for students to take needed courses and expunge elective courses in order to guide students effectively. He further reasons that vast majority of students are inclined to keep track of directions, not of their own decisions. Personally, I refute the rationale behind both the claim and the reason. The following paragraphs will aptly substantiate my personal stance.
To commence with, the university as an academic center the main responsibility of which is to prepare students for having both a successful profession and personal life. In fact, experiences acquired at university or college make students decide their path and shape their future lives. Broadly speaking, university or college is an important academic center, which students will gain myriads of different knowledge and experiences. As a tangible example, based on a survey conducted in our country, crowds of students who studied at the university or a college in which elective courses are obliterated, were not the successful and knowledgeable person in their future lives and could not make the best use of their education. To elucidate more on this issue, elective courses provide fertile ground for students to become familiar with the various field of studies and not only can they broaden their horizon but also can make a progress in their education day in day out.
Another equally salient point in corroborating my stance is that in spite of learning much knowledge and acquiring different experiences, students will become familiar with different people with various attitudes and passions. If we take a minute to ponder over it, the main purpose of elective courses is not the only gaining knowledge but view life differently. Indeed, myriads of students with different cultures are willing to enroll for elective courses, so, it is a great opportunity for students to enhance their information about other civilizations and costume along with their study. It can be deduced from a combination of breadth of coverage and depth of detail that if elective courses wiped out by academic centers, it might have a deleterious effect on students' lives in the long run whether in their study or personal life.
As far as the reason is concerned, it should be pointed out that it is not a wise decision to force students to follow directions. One of the startling fact which flabbergasted me is that, when universities or colleges eliminate selective courses, students do not have any choice to select, so, they have to follow directions, not by their own decisions. It is better to help students follow their interest and act based on their own willing. Elective courses will provide students with a great chance to make known their interest and opt for their own decisions. In this case, not only will dropout rate diminish extensively and enormously but also will respect toward students' taste.
Having scrutinized both the claim and the reason, I reiterate that
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Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'progress'.
Suggestion: progress
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so, broadly speaking, in fact, in spite of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 24.0 14.8657303371 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 33.0505617978 127% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 68.0 58.6224719101 116% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2559.0 2235.4752809 114% => OK
No of words: 495.0 442.535393258 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1696969697 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71684168287 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81740621455 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 241.0 215.323595506 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.486868686869 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 815.4 704.065955056 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.4939209328 60.3974514979 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.684210526 118.986275619 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0526315789 23.4991977007 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.0 5.21951772744 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.334869595529 0.243740707755 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.112726619879 0.0831039109588 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0623930327413 0.0758088955206 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.195010596141 0.150359130593 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0740433084708 0.0667264976115 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 14.1392134831 112% => 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: 13.0 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.5 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 112.0 100.480337079 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => 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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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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