Some people believe that college students should consider only their own talents and interests when choosing a field of study. Others believe that college students should base their choice of a field of study on the availability of jobs in that field.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.
Should students choose major based on their interests and talents or the job prospect of that major? Though some people argue that job prospect should be the first thing to be considered, I disagree in that the future of job is difficult to predict. I believe that whether a student has genuine interests and talents towards a field is what really matters, because that is the engine for a more sustainable and ever-lasting development.
Admittedly, gaining more information on job availability is important because it can avoid a student spend four or more years earning a degree and then be frustrated by a job market with no demand for graduate. This process, however, only make sense if one can readily predict the future of work. With the advent of automation and other life-changing technology, the rapid change of job market makes it nearly impossible for us to predict future job prospect. Consider the career of a ticket salesman. This job is now being replaced by automatic machine in many cities. We can hardly know what expertise will be replaced by the force of automation in the future. Therefore, to assume that job availability is something out there, staying constant and waiting for a student to unearth is unrealistic. And it is even more risk to base students' choice of major on any conjecture on future workforce.
Then what should college students do to better prepare themselves for the future? How should they make any decision if the world is full of drastic changes? I believe that there is one thing that never fades away: the passion you have towards a field. Passion, stemming from genuine interest, creates great motivation for improvement thus can lead to higher productivity. Take many technology start-up company as an example. When Steve Jobs started designing computers in his small garage, he did not give any thoughts on whether this expertise will gain him a decent job easily. But he is motivated and worked very hard because he had passion towards engineering and programming. No matter what the job prospect is out there, he finally become very successful by creating his own company: Apple. This example clearly illustrate that, in the ever-changing world, do not predict the future, define the future. And passion is a necessary component for one to do so.
In addition to passion, talents are also important trace to look at when thinking about which field to study. Because even if the job availability is very limited, a person with talent can still thrive. Let us take academia as an example, the demands for tenure is very small, while a young man with talents for academic research in biology will always manage to find a university that recognize his talents and competency. As an old saying goes: if you are a gold, you will shine no matter what. It is even a misleading advice to tell for those with talents that they should consider job availability, because no industry will say no to a gifted employee.
To sum up, I do think job prospect can play a role for college student to choose their major but it is difficult to accurate predict the future thus make any decision based on it risky. But I believe that passion and talent can always lead to a successful career, because that is the engine of progressing.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 24, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to major'
Suggestion: to major
Should students choose major based on their interests and talents or...
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Line 9, column 378, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun technology seems to be countable; consider using: 'many technologies'.
Suggestion: many technologies
...s can lead to higher productivity. Take many technology start-up company as an example. When St...
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Line 13, column 509, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[3]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'misleading advice'.
Suggestion: misleading advice
...u will shine no matter what. It is even a misleading advice to tell for those with talents that the...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, look, really, so, still, then, therefore, thus, while, in addition, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 33.0505617978 145% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 57.0 58.6224719101 97% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2729.0 2235.4752809 122% => OK
No of words: 560.0 442.535393258 127% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87321428571 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.8645985582 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69220103792 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 272.0 215.323595506 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.485714285714 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 873.9 704.065955056 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.5368517567 60.3974514979 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.4642857143 118.986275619 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 23.4991977007 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.17857142857 5.21951772744 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => 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: 0.276100122129 0.243740707755 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0707666136327 0.0831039109588 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0692212800363 0.0758088955206 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.173587981182 0.150359130593 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0832102964006 0.0667264976115 125% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.5 14.1392134831 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.1639044944 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.12 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 124.0 100.480337079 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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