A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you 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 those examples shape your position.
The issue presented in the prompt is an incredibly contentious one. The idea of adopting a homogenous curriculum in all schools across a nation is a tempting idea, but if applied, it can be met with various repercussions. Hence, I partially agree with this idea, due to the fact that uniformity can help provide every student with the opportunity to compete with the rest of the world. On the other hand, the cultural values of the locality have to be taken into consideration before sanctioning such an undertaking.
To begin with, the implications of adopting a uniform curriculum in all schools will help in providing every student with the same opportunity across the country. Due to the competitive nature of the modern society, an individual may attribute his failure to achieve his goals to the fact that he has not been provided with the same education as the other person. For instance, in a country like India, due to the financial disparity between the rich and the poor, poor people usually tend to educate their children in public schools, while the rich send their children to privately run institutions. The curricula in the public and private schools are extremely different, with the private schools providing higher quality education to its pupils. A student graduating from a public school might not be able to attend college and might attribute this to the fact that he was not provided with ample opportunities to develop the skills required to get into a university. Hence, by introducing a uniform curriculum, such students would also be benefitted from equal opportunity to excel in the university.
On the other hand, since diversity exists in every country, adopting a homogenous curriculum could have unfortunate repercussions. If a uniform curriculum is applied without considering the cultural values extant in a particular region of a country, it might be deleterious to the culture, leading to its extinction. For example, if a country is not monolingual and if each of its provinces speaks a different language, adopting a curriculum that does not teach the local language can lead to its extinction. Hence, to prevent the loss of ancient cultures and traditions, it would not be wise to adopt a uniform curriculum that excludes provincial cultural values.
Overall, this topic is definitely a subject of concern and has to be dealt with utter care. It might prove beneficial to the country if a compromise is reached which not helps in providing its younger generation with the required skills, but also preserves the local values.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, may, so, while, as to, for example, for instance, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 33.0505617978 73% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2157.0 2235.4752809 96% => OK
No of words: 423.0 442.535393258 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09929078014 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53508145475 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94417656486 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 215.323595506 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.48463356974 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 693.0 704.065955056 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.2370786517 79% => 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: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.8294218383 60.3974514979 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.8125 118.986275619 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.4375 23.4991977007 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5 5.21951772744 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => 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: 0.146440166945 0.243740707755 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0502979417085 0.0831039109588 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0388486337473 0.0758088955206 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0923893187603 0.150359130593 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0133665429441 0.0667264976115 20% => 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: 15.8 14.1392134831 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.7 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 100.480337079 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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