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.
Although the reason for this prompt that people generally prefer to follow directions rather than make their own decisions might sounds reasonable, it should not be the case for an effective education. The job of an educational institute should be cultivating a student's ability of creative thinking as well as to independently make their own decisions. Therefore, I would call this proposition into question and refute it with the following reasons.
It might sound ideal to provide a specific guidance for every student to follow since by doing so students' uncertainty about their college life could be eliminated. We students are mostly infused with the idea that college is everything, and entrance into college could mean a carefree life in the future. However, this cliché could no longer hold truth after one enters the real college. The diversified college life is still full of hesitation and uncertainty. Therefore, a college student might easily get lost without proper guidance. For those who are pretty sure about what to do in their future life, a specified syllabus might provide them with a guidance with much more clearance, as they could approach the crescendo with every small step taken firmly and clearly. As for those who are still hesitate about what to do in the future, specifying all required courses could eliminate their hesitation and the educational institute could still exert its function as a preparation for the future. Therefore, proponents for this prompt might argue that it is advantageous for colleges to provide students with specified study plans.
However, students should learn to think independently and make their own decisions. College life prepare a student for fitting into a real society. Nevertheless, life in a real society needs an individual to utilizes one's own wisdom to make the right decision as well as to confront challenges mostly by oneself. Therefore, it is better for a college student to cultivate his/her own decision making ability during his/her college life and a pragmatic practice to achieve this goal is to educate the student to choose his/her own syllabus according to his/her learning ability. In that way, a student could learn to undertake the result of his/her own making gradually learn to make decisions independently and more wisely in their future life. Therefore, specifying all required courses is unnecessary for the reason that it could undermine a student's capability of making his/her own choice.
Moreover, considering from both economic perspective and feasible perspective, it is not quite possible for a college to provide students with explicitly specified study plan. Situations vary from person to person, and one man's meat is another man's poison. Nonetheless, it is not plausible for an educational institute to specify a specific guideline for every individual. Besides, there is a great number of elective courses to choose according to their own interests, and it is less likely to turn all these courses into compulsory. Therefore, colleges and universities should offer students with the right to choose courses for themselves rather than specifying the teaching program.
In conclusion, the function of an education institute is to proffer students with the choice to choose their own study plan, to infuse a student with creativity and independency, as well as to prepare its student with the chance to choose their future life. To achieve these goals, colleges and universities should not specify the required courses or eliminate elective courses.
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- 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 decisi 66
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 263, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...ional institute should be cultivating a students ability of creative thinking as well as...
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Line 3, column 99, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...ery student to follow since by doing so students uncertainty about their college life co...
^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 803, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'hesitated'.
Suggestion: hesitated
...and clearly. As for those who are still hesitate about what to do in the future, specify...
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Line 5, column 845, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...or the reason that it could undermine a students capability of making his/her own choice...
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Line 7, column 437, Rule ID: AFFORD_VBG[1]
Message: This verb is used with infinitive: 'to accord'.
Suggestion: to accord
...at number of elective courses to choose according to their own interests, and it is less ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, however, if, moreover, nevertheless, nonetheless, so, still, therefore, well, as for, as to, in conclusion, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.4196629213 153% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 53.0 33.0505617978 160% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 72.0 58.6224719101 123% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3002.0 2235.4752809 134% => OK
No of words: 565.0 442.535393258 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31327433628 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87542086881 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82349650406 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 240.0 215.323595506 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.424778761062 0.4932671777 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 963.9 704.065955056 137% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.5943519366 60.3974514979 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.083333333 118.986275619 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5416666667 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.29166666667 5.21951772744 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => 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: 0.451049302752 0.243740707755 185% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.14579465446 0.0831039109588 175% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0911153218553 0.0758088955206 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.272800614167 0.150359130593 181% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0263583213639 0.0667264976115 40% => 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: 15.4 14.1392134831 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.8420337079 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.1639044944 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 100.480337079 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 11.8971910112 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.