Government should offer college and university education free of charge to all students Write a response in which you are agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take In developing and supporting your posi

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Government should offer college and university education free of charge to all students. Write a response in which you are agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.

Education is the key to develop and build a society, because it is a change agent which can make the son of a nobody to become somebody, and bridge the societal gaps established at birth. Therefore eductaion both at college and university level should be accessible to all, by creating a free tuition policy; However this policy is not universally applicable in all situations.

In Nigeria for example, during the nations glorious pre-independence and a little while after independence, when the economy was still boisterious and blooming, the then western governor by the name "Mr Obafemi Awolowo" initiated a free tuition policy on colleges and universities in western Nigeria. This initiative which was properly backed financially by the government boosted educational level in the western region and produced educated individuals that went on to build and develop the society, little wonder Lagos state Nigeria which is in the western region immediately became one of the largest commercial cities in West Africa. Also till date, Ekiti state in western Nigeria still holds the record of having the largest number of professors in Nigeria. However, the level and standard of education was not compromised during this initiative because it was properly and financially backed by the government whose economy was booming.

To the present day Nigeria, similar cry for tuition waiver was echoed by the state university and state college in Enugu State Nigeria around the year 2007, Under the governorship of Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani, his response to the echo was rather epic, in his words and i quote "Education is not cheap and it is for the rich, if one thinks education is too expensive, then the person should try ignorance". This was in line with the current economic situation of the state and the country at large, the state could not finance the tuition free policy any longer. For Education to be free, it must be financially backed by the government, So that the standard of Education will not reduce. Hence if the government is not boisterious enough to financially back the tuition free policy. Then the students in order to get quality education, must raise funds through payment of tuition fees. One way or another, Educational institutions need to be funded.

Most developing countries make reference to tuition free countries like Germany when making their point of argument for an Educational free system, However these people often side step the fact that the German government provide the needed fund to maintain the standard of eductaion in the country.

In conclusion, while a society clamours for free education in colleges and universities, it is imperative to ascertain if the free education policy can be achieved without compromosing the standard/level of education. If the government cannot fund it, then it should not be free and vice versa.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, however, if, so, still, then, therefore, while, for example, in conclusion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 33.0505617978 57% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 58.6224719101 104% => OK
Nominalization: 31.0 12.9106741573 240% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2436.0 2235.4752809 109% => OK
No of words: 466.0 442.535393258 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22746781116 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64618479453 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9173628353 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 215.323595506 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.491416309013 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 784.8 704.065955056 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.2370786517 74% => 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: 31.0 23.0359550562 135% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 101.017622225 60.3974514979 167% => OK
Chars per sentence: 162.4 118.986275619 136% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.0666666667 23.4991977007 132% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.8 5.21951772744 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => 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: 0.183114050368 0.243740707755 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0687533712942 0.0831039109588 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0367665807744 0.0758088955206 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117035991146 0.150359130593 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0271595516305 0.0667264976115 41% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.7 14.1392134831 132% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 31.55 48.8420337079 65% => OK
smog_index: 13.0 7.92365168539 164% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.6 12.1743820225 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.65 12.1639044944 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.97 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 112.0 100.480337079 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 21.0 11.8971910112 177% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 11.2143820225 128% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => 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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