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 decision.
College life is a very important phase, a gateway to the various opportunities and experiences that life holds for us. it is during this time we both introspect and sweep through our surroundings, in order to find our footing in the society. This is the is the phase when we learn to not only make our own decisions, but also take responsibility for them. At such a time when students realize what their interests are and wish to diversify, it is unwise to rudely snatch away their choices. Elective subjects in universities are one way of helping students navigate through the process of finding their interests. hence, for the following two reasons, I strongly disagree with the given claim.
Firstly, elective subjects help students give greater focus to their subjects of interest and eliminate other background noise. courses offered by universities are colleges aim at catering to the needs of all their students in a very generic manner. To tailor the course to fit each and every student individually is an impossible task. allowing students to choose electives are one way of altering the course to cater to their individual aspirations, and giving greater priority to the needs of the students. Take, for example, a student pursuing a bachelor's degree in biotechnology. Biotechnology is a large umbrella which encompasses many fields of study ranging from pharmaceuticals to molecular biology.In such cases, electives provide the student with the opportunity to focus on subjects that are much more closely related to their field of interest.
Secondly, allowing students to explore subjects of their choice helps them deduce their likes and dislikes. Experimentation and trial-and-error are essential parts of the quest to finding one's calling in life. Not every student has their path ahead chalked out to perfection. Most students dabble with different ideas throughout college life until they find the one craft that calls out to their soul. By setting them free and letting them choose their subjects, we allow them to try and test the waters before they plunge headfirst into it. Even at the worst of cases, if they do not enjoy the subjects of their choice, they will atleast gain enough self-knowledge to assess their likes and dislikes, which can help them pinpoint their further choices of education. For instance, a student pursuing mechanical engineering has always expressed a great inclination towards automobiles. Upon taking electives pertaining to that field of study, he may feel that he is perhaps not as passionate about the subject as he percieved himself to be. hence, the course was an eye-opener for him and help him cross one of his choices off his list.
Pushing students to make such decisions while in the process of learning may backfire as they may sometimes make irrelevant and ill-informed choices. But it is important to note that such choices will always be their own. College aims to prepare us for what lies beyond the scope of the neighbourhood we live in. Its purpose is to mould us into persons independent persons who do not shy away from making life-shaping decisions. As Uncle Ben said, "With great power comes great responsibility." The power to sculpt our lives always lies in our hands, and it is imperative that we cherish the ability to do so.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, if, may, second, secondly, so, while, for example, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 64.0 33.0505617978 194% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 83.0 58.6224719101 142% => 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: 2773.0 2235.4752809 124% => OK
No of words: 547.0 442.535393258 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.06946983547 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.83611736076 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89258149925 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 290.0 215.323595506 135% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.530164533821 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 855.0 704.065955056 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.2281613241 60.3974514979 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.653846154 118.986275619 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0384615385 23.4991977007 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.73076923077 5.21951772744 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 7.80617977528 115% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.236109236267 0.243740707755 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0674653003515 0.0831039109588 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0450222212043 0.0758088955206 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.146129112936 0.150359130593 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0539992575651 0.0667264976115 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.1392134831 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.1639044944 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 123.0 100.480337079 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => 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: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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