Claim: Colleges and universities should specify all required courses and eliminate elective courses in order to provide clear guidane for students.
Reason: College students-like people in general-prefer to follow directions rather than make their own decisions.
The statment contends that colleges and universitites should specify all required courses and eliminate elective courses in order to provide clear guidance for students. To bolster the above argument, it has been said that college students-like people in general-prefer to follow directions rather than make their own decisions. However a generalization of the above argument may seem true but in context of college students looks quite flawed. Students should be allowed to make their own choices.
Students should be allowed to choose elective courses and not everyone should be forced to study the same subjects. Different students have different needs and interests. They should be allowed to study subject that takes into consideration those interests. If a student has an interest in history, he/she should be allowed to choose the subject as an elective rather than forced to study biology, for instance. Allowing students to choose their own elective subjects helps nuture their interest and gives a better understanding of the subject and perhaps the world. Forcing someone to study a subject outside their interest will not only generate dislike for the subject but also nullify the purpose of teaching that subject.
If students are allowed to pick their own courses, it is bound to increase their chances of employability. A student have much interest in machine learning will delve deeper into that subject thereby not just nuturing the interest of the student but also improving his/her knowledge regarding the subject, that will in turn help their chances of finding a job in that domain. This would have not been the case had they been forced to study astronomy. To support this argument, it has been seen that employers tend to hire a student having deeper understanding of a particular field than a student having a basic understanding of all the fields.
Although some argue that college and universitites should specify all required courses because generally college students do not have the maturity to make a life decision. They have no knowledge regarding the market statistics when it comes to finding job. By not allowing them to choose their own courses, universities can impart a basic and well detailed education to all the students. The argument provided is true to some extent. Students generally don't have much idea regarding the future prospects of a field but universities should also provide appropriate help and support to their students. They should be guided properly before allowing them to choose their own elective courses.
Another solution to the above argument is that students should be allowed to choose some elective course and should be made to study some compulsory subjects. By this, the student not only develops more interest in their choosen elective field but also gets a better and global understanding of other subjects as well.
In sum, college students should be given the freedom to choose their own elective courses that helps in their better development. Colleges and universities should not just dictate their rules and force everyone to study the same subject. Although the generalization that people like to follow directions than make their own decision could be true in case of general people but it should not be blindly applied to college students as well.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 330, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...s rather than make their own decisions. However a generalization of the above argument ...
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Line 5, column 118, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'has'.
Suggestion: has
...eir chances of employability. A student have much interest in machine learning will ...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...true to some extent. Students generally dont have much idea regarding the future pro...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, may, regarding, so, well, for instance, in general
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 47.0 33.0505617978 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 67.0 58.6224719101 114% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2805.0 2235.4752809 125% => OK
No of words: 536.0 442.535393258 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23320895522 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81161862636 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69230768848 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 215.323595506 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.384328358209 0.4932671777 78% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 872.1 704.065955056 124% => 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: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.3702481987 60.3974514979 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.2 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.44 23.4991977007 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.2 5.21951772744 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.406996962963 0.243740707755 167% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.137702768466 0.0831039109588 166% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.119203165203 0.0758088955206 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.270483642706 0.150359130593 180% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.176124644484 0.0667264976115 264% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.05 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.65 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 100.480337079 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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