Choosing a college major proves daunting for most entering college students and it could take them days, months or a year to make a concise decision. The prompt recommends that students should decide on a career path that conforms most with their interests and skill set rather than picking courses for readily available job prospects in the labour market. In my opinion, I mostly agree with this suggestion that colleges should consider their skill, ability and interest when deciding on a college major for 2 reasons.
Firstly, the job market is rather dynamic as change is a constant in the human cycle of life, thus choosing a career path based on the readily available jobs in the market at the time of school entry without considering it in the long term is at a student’s own risk. For instance before the pandemic, a plebian white collar job at an advertising agency that requires lots of onsite appearance would fetch good pay and is very attractive, however with the onset of the pandemic, remote jobs are the latest trends for the labour market and people with the required skills would adapt promptly while the others would have o find other alternatives to make a living. Consequently, the unpredictable job market is not a good mark for choosing a college major. Besides, what is the probability that remote jobs will continue to be a trend after the pandemic?
Secondly, even if we assume that the job market is static and not dynamic, there is still the issue of self satisfaction, happiness and a sense of achievement that comes with a career that aligns with your interests. For example, a student passionate about Geology pragmatically choosing a path of medicine due to the plethora of opportunities in the job market may later struggle to keep up with her studies due to school pressure or later in the future not find any self satisfaction or sense of achievement in the medical field. She may find herself wondering how her career would be if she had chosen a geology major instead. A sense of achievement is an end product of the desire and happiness an individual derives from his or her career and persons with such tend to be more committed, efficient and productive.
Finally, with the frequently evolving global economy and the competitive job market, it is imperative that students pick a major that is practical. However this is why the students should pursue a path that aligns with their interests and skills so that they can be more grounded and firm against their opponents in the job market.
In conclusion, people who tend to forgo their interest in favour of readily available job prospects in the labour market do so at their own peril.
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- People who make decisions based on emotion and justify those decisions with logic afterwards are poor decision makers 50
- College students should be encouraged to pursue subjects that interest them rather than the courses that seem most likely to lead to jobs 66
- A nation should require all its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college rather than allow schools in different parts of the nation to determine which academic courses to offer 50
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 122, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...is still the issue of self satisfaction, happiness and a sense of achievement tha...
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Line 7, column 149, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...tudents pick a major that is practical. However this is why the students should pursue ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, consequently, finally, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, thus, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 58.6224719101 97% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2229.0 2235.4752809 100% => OK
No of words: 461.0 442.535393258 104% => OK
Chars per words: 4.83514099783 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63367139033 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66561617139 2.79657885939 95% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 215.323595506 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.498915401302 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 694.8 704.065955056 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 20.2370786517 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 32.0 23.0359550562 139% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 83.6783504052 60.3974514979 139% => OK
Chars per sentence: 159.214285714 118.986275619 134% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.9285714286 23.4991977007 140% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.6428571429 5.21951772744 223% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.222261008104 0.243740707755 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0893265600352 0.0831039109588 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0642742237291 0.0758088955206 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.13346094538 0.150359130593 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0875863347515 0.0667264976115 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.8 14.1392134831 126% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.46 48.8420337079 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.38 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.99 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 100.480337079 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.8971910112 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 11.2143820225 132% => 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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