Educational institutions should actively encourage their students to choose fields of study that will prepare them for lucrative careers.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supp

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Educational institutions should actively encourage their students to choose fields of study that will prepare them for lucrative careers.

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 the right field of study- that is one of the biggest dilemmas most of the students face at some point of their lives. Now, does choosing a field based on it's market value of "lucrative career" actually solves this dilemma? If so, then it will be partinent and advantegeous if educational institutions actively encourage their students to choose certain disciplines. But success depends more on the person, his understandings and perspectives. Does advocating for some certain subjects belittle others? These factors are very important ones to be considered before adjudicating whether schools or colleges should actively encourage choosing particular fields.

A successful career depends more on the skill of the person rather than the "market value" of the subject, or the field of study. The attitude of the person in question towards the field and the work defines how successful that person would become. So, choosing their own careers is the most important thing for a successful person. The example of Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple can be cited here. He dropped out of college, abandoning a number of "lucrative" subjects. Instead, he started to attend any class of his choice, without being a registered student of that particular class. He mostly liked the caligraphy classes. And later, he admitted that, his knowledge aquired from those caligraphy classes helped him to create the first typefaces for Mac computers, that probably changed the history of computing and the use of graphical user interface.Now, if the college actively persuaded Steve Jobs not to leave those lucrative subjects, possibly he wouldn't have joined those caligraphy classes, and consequentially, this essay would have been written on a DOS operating system.

Another downside of promoting certain fields of study is that, the college itself creates grounds for discrimination. Advocating for one subject does not necessarily mean that other subjects are bad or without any future; but it most certainly implies that a certain subject is better and more valuable. This can create divisions amongst the students of that college. Take for example, a certain college encourages its students to study either engineering or business studies as those fields of studies have more number of coveted jobs and thus better career prospects. Now this can make two things happen- one, the engineering and business students might feel they are the superior class, the cream of the lot. And other faculties might suffer from certain forms of inferiority-complex and thus this can create a conflict between disciplines within the college. Certainly, the mentality of competition- a certain department is not better than us- can actually encourage the students of other disciplines perform better, the disadvantages of the conflict outweighs its advantages.

Some might argue that, the advocacy is actually a kind of guidance. When educational institutions actively suggests what field is to choose, it actually guides those students who are confused about their careers. But less confusion does not guarantee more success. The lack of confusion should come from a student's own realization, not just by following the trend. I had one friend who had a proclivity for programming since his childhood. When he got admitted into a top-ranked engineering university of our country, he decided to study electrical engineering instead of computer science. Because someone persuaded him that, electrical engineering guarantees more pay and more lucrative career. What happened is that, he did not find the subject interesting, left the university in his 3rd year and decided to get admission in another university to study computer science. If he had gone with his own passion rather than listeng to other people's suggestions about career choices, he wouldn't have to waste 3 years of his time.

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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'but', 'first', 'if', 'so', 'then', 'thus', 'for example', 'kind of']

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.246376811594 0.240241500013 103% => OK
Verbs: 0.147826086957 0.157235817809 94% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0782608695652 0.0880659088768 89% => OK
Adverbs: 0.063768115942 0.0497285424764 128% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0478260869565 0.0444667217837 108% => OK
Prepositions: 0.11884057971 0.12292977631 97% => OK
Participles: 0.031884057971 0.0406280797675 78% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.01018616907 2.79330140395 108% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0173913043478 0.030933414821 56% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.102898550725 0.0997080785238 103% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0188405797101 0.0249443105267 76% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0130434782609 0.0148568991511 88% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3901.0 2732.02544248 143% => OK
No of words: 611.0 452.878318584 135% => OK
Chars per words: 6.38461538462 6.0361032391 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.97176167858 4.58838876751 108% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.422258592471 0.366273622748 115% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.353518821604 0.280924506359 126% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.242225859247 0.200843997647 121% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.147299509002 0.132149295362 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01018616907 2.79330140395 108% => OK
Unique words: 306.0 219.290929204 140% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.500818330606 0.48968727796 102% => OK
Word variations: 62.6651427647 55.4138127331 113% => OK
How many sentences: 30.0 20.6194690265 145% => OK
Sentence length: 20.3666666667 23.380412469 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 75.8404831794 59.4972553346 127% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.033333333 141.124799967 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3666666667 23.380412469 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.3 0.674092028746 45% => More Discourse Markers wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.94800884956 81% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.21349557522 77% => OK
Readability: 55.7185488271 51.4728631049 108% => OK
Elegance: 1.53072625698 1.64882698954 93% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.347662389537 0.391690518653 89% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.102178138593 0.123202303941 83% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0919538715437 0.077325440228 119% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.421408043744 0.547984918172 77% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.143680439009 0.149214159877 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.113113373895 0.161403998019 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.059491652617 0.0892212321368 67% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.434488932921 0.385218514788 113% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0760312886993 0.0692045440612 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.255955714548 0.275328986314 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0168352950976 0.0653680567796 26% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 10.4325221239 182% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.30420353982 132% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88274336283 82% => OK
Positive topic words: 17.0 7.22455752212 235% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 3.66592920354 82% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.70907079646 111% => OK
Total topic words: 23.0 13.5995575221 169% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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