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.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the
claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
In the present world, we live in a democratic society in which everyone has their own responsibility to make their society better for the future generation. Education is one of the key components of ensuring a better society. Thus colleges and universities need to be stringent when they decide on the education structure. The above prompt sets out that colleges and universities should specify all required courses and eliminate the optional courses in order to provide lucid guidance for students since students are more likely to follow directions rather than make their own decision. Though I concede that sometimes, people like students have the predilection of following orders instead of making their own decision in my opinion, I mostly disagree with the prompt that colleges and universities should provide guidance by stiffening education policy by restricting elective courses completely.
To begin with, colleges and universities should not eliminate all elective courses since some students might be interested in some elective courses rather than required courses. Let’s take an example, a student may be enrolled in physics but he/she may have a passion for playing piano and wants to be a great piano player in near future like Felix Mendelssohn. Then, he/she can take musical courses as an elective. The above example shows that if colleges and universities eliminate all elective courses then the student will not get any opportunity of being a musician. Thus the student will not flourish under a rigid educational system.
Furthermore, mental satisfaction is a key factor in the life improvement. Too rigid a curriculum may hamper a student’s mental health. For example, a student may not be a prowess learner in a subject and he didn’t feel happy to learn those topics but too stiff course structure force him to attend these courses then his performance will dwindle and he/she may feel congested which may lead to severe depression and it will affect other subjects significantly. This above example illustrates that rigid course structure sometimes affects students adversely rather than imposing their performances. Moreover, if a student feels too much academic pressure and has to learn too many topics which he does not enjoy then it may have a catastrophic impact on other topics which he is good at and enjoys doing them.
However, sometimes rigid course structure may be a better option for a student’s performance. A strict academic regime may pave the path to success for a student. For example, a student may be lazy and not want to go through the hard topics which is a bad sign for a student’s development but a strict academic regime forces him to learn the topic which is crucial for learning the subjects. Moreover, some students may want to select an optional subject in order to avoid the hard topics which are imperative for gaining knowledge. The above examples show that sometimes strict course structure is mandatory for the students by which colleges and universities can ensure that students can gain proper knowledge.
Despite these reasons focusing too much on strict course structure has its merit in that it helps a student navigate the proper way, guides him to reach his goals, etc but the advantages are overshadowed by the possible disadvantages which are more severe in nature. Thus completely eliminating the selective courses is not advisable but maintaining a supple course structure in which some selective courses are assigned to students as per their interest while maintaining the productivity of required courses is preferable.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 228, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...omponents of ensuring a better society. Thus colleges and universities need to be st...
^^^^
Line 3, column 573, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...et any opportunity of being a musician. Thus the student will not flourish under a r...
^^^^
Line 9, column 268, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...ntages which are more severe in nature. Thus completely eliminating the selective co...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, however, if, may, moreover, so, then, thus, while, as to, for example, in my opinion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.4196629213 185% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 33.0505617978 127% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 60.0 58.6224719101 102% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3036.0 2235.4752809 136% => OK
No of words: 580.0 442.535393258 131% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23448275862 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.90746259869 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85028525597 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 261.0 215.323595506 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.45 0.4932671777 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 966.6 704.065955056 137% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 83.6756330735 60.3974514979 139% => OK
Chars per sentence: 138.0 118.986275619 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3636363636 23.4991977007 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.31818181818 5.21951772744 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.437334846958 0.243740707755 179% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.144709113827 0.0831039109588 174% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.14188161405 0.0758088955206 187% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.26863202677 0.150359130593 179% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.142288449566 0.0667264976115 213% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 14.1392134831 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 48.8420337079 75% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.35 12.1639044944 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 124.0 100.480337079 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 228, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...omponents of ensuring a better society. Thus colleges and universities need to be st...
^^^^
Line 3, column 573, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...et any opportunity of being a musician. Thus the student will not flourish under a r...
^^^^
Line 9, column 268, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...ntages which are more severe in nature. Thus completely eliminating the selective co...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, however, if, may, moreover, so, then, thus, while, as to, for example, in my opinion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.4196629213 185% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 33.0505617978 127% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 60.0 58.6224719101 102% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3036.0 2235.4752809 136% => OK
No of words: 580.0 442.535393258 131% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23448275862 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.90746259869 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85028525597 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 261.0 215.323595506 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.45 0.4932671777 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 966.6 704.065955056 137% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 83.6756330735 60.3974514979 139% => OK
Chars per sentence: 138.0 118.986275619 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3636363636 23.4991977007 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.31818181818 5.21951772744 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.437334846958 0.243740707755 179% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.144709113827 0.0831039109588 174% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.14188161405 0.0758088955206 187% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.26863202677 0.150359130593 179% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.142288449566 0.0667264976115 213% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 14.1392134831 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 48.8420337079 75% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.35 12.1639044944 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 124.0 100.480337079 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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.