Educational institutions have a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
Choosing a field of study is daunting enough for a student and making the decision to pursue a field is not an easy one. The prompt claims that educational institutions should take up the responsibility to identify if a student is likely to succeed in a field and if he is not likely, dissuade him from pursuing that field. While I think that educational institutions do have some responsibility, it is not to the extent of supplanting the students individual decision. Hence, I disagree with the prompt for two reasons.
In most cases, everyone goes to school as a child. A student learns basics in school like arithmetic, science, social studies and so on that we require to understand the world in a better context than we would otherwise. It is right through the student’s childhood days that he grows up with an intention to pursue a career, however absurd it may be. He could even think of inventing technology flying through space in a robotic suit. It is from here that he would start to learn the practicalities of the world, the rules governing them and take a decision to pursue a career closest to his dream. An educational institution or a teacher does not know what his dreams are or where the student’s interests lie. In the case that the teacher paid attention to some funny drawings that he drew as a child, she might know but still does not know or care as much as the student’s parents or the student himself. So if a teacher recommends that the student not pursue a field without knowing the full extent of his abilities and interests, it is in most cases, likely to backfire on the student’s future.
In contrast, if the educational institution does have the ability to gauge a student’s abilities and interests to a high extent, then they could definitely point out the student’s strong point and weak points perhaps through a SWOT analysis(strong, weakness, opportunity, threat), the student can make a decision himself as to which field he wants to pursue. The extent of the influence that an educational institution has to offer should be just a recommendation to not pursue rather than a strong objection to pursue the field.
Moreover, there are examples of students who at first seemingly fail in their future career but actually succeed in their decision later on in life. Take Mark Zuckerberg for instance. The now Facebook CEO and one of the tech giants of the planet was a dropout in college. He might not have had his career planned out from the start i.e, his college days and seems unlikely to succeed in the view of the institution and his professors. So if the institution or his professors dissuaded him from the beginning to pursue his choice, and he trusted their recommendation, we would not have Facebook today.
In sum, a student’s decision to pursue a career of his choice should not influenced to a huge extent but there could be ‘gentle nudges’ by the educational institutions to pave a better path for the student’s life in the world.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 153, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'understanding'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'require' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: understanding
...ocial studies and so on that we require to understand the world in a better context than we w...
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Line 9, column 74, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'should' requires the base form of the verb: 'influence'
Suggestion: influence
...ursue a career of his choice should not influenced to a huge extent but there could be ‘ge...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, hence, however, if, may, moreover, so, still, then, while, as to, for instance, i think, in contrast, in most cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 33.0505617978 145% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 70.0 58.6224719101 119% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2491.0 2235.4752809 111% => OK
No of words: 521.0 442.535393258 118% => OK
Chars per words: 4.78119001919 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77759609229 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89667304696 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 215.323595506 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.451055662188 0.4932671777 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 751.5 704.065955056 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 72.0281889263 60.3974514979 119% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.55 118.986275619 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.05 23.4991977007 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.85 5.21951772744 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.267671889134 0.243740707755 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0783182263129 0.0831039109588 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0655992393126 0.0758088955206 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.162309836042 0.150359130593 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0762376390135 0.0667264976115 114% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 62.01 48.8420337079 127% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.74 12.1639044944 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.5 8.38706741573 89% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 100.480337079 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => 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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