In order to become well-rounded individuals, all college students should be required to take courses in which they read poetry, novels, mythology, and other types of imaginative literature.
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.
A well-rounded person refers to one that is not only skilled at his/her own field of study, but also a basic knowledge of other discipline. It is an ingenious idea for students to take courses covering imaginative literature such as fictions and mythologies. Nevertheless, college should encourage, rather than force students to take such courses. What is more, it is better to take students in different disciplines into consideration.
To begin with, it is a boon for students to dabble in imaginative literature. For students majoring in sciences, science fictions sometimes offer them unique inspirations. For instance, many crafts created and “designed” by Jules Verne like light-propelled spaceships are helpful to some groundbreaking technological innovations such as solar sails. Plus, for students in arts such as history and anthropology, such imaginative fictions could aid their research as a potential access to cross-discipline study. For instance, students in Asian history may find Chinese founding myth, which could reflect many of Chinese current social mores like importance of seniority, conducive to their own study. Other than all these benefits in research, imaginative literature cultivates students’ critical thinking, especially by encouraging them think outside the box, which could be a crucial skill in their future career, as technology companies pay increasingly attention to students’ creativity. Last but not least, college students commonly suffer from their difficult study and busy schedule, thus fictions and other imaginative literature could serve as a way to release their pressure, which could benefit their profound development. Furthermore, the essential part of poetry lies in the passion of living and pursuing of happiness. As Mr. Keating put in the famous movie “Dead Poet Society”, “Medicine, law… these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But Poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.”
Nevertheless, the statement that college should require students to study literature is based largely on the assumption that college has the legitimacy and responsibility to tell students what to do like parenting its children. It is untenable since as a college student, one should have adequate judgement to make decision on his/her own. For instance, a student already familiar with imaginative literature should be able to make choice on his/her own to study other field which they are interested in. otherwise, it would be a waste of time for them to listen to a longwinded lecture talking about everything they have already known. To simply put, college should respect students’ own choices based their own condition and preference. What is more, poetry and myth might be a beneficial supplement for college students because of their outstanding imagination, but they are after all not as important as students’ own major courses, which are keys to their future career and personal development. The requirement may backfire if it has adverse effects on students’ performances in their own discipline. Hence, the policy should not be a compulsory one.
To conclude, what a college is supposed to do is to expand their curriculum as large as possible and encourage and motivate, while not force students to take multifarious courses, which of course include imaginative literature. Those courses, as discussed above, are advantageous for students’ well-rounded development.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'potential access'.
Suggestion: potential access
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... these are what we stay alive for.' Nevertheless, the statement that college...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, hence, if, may, nevertheless, so, thus, well, while, after all, for instance, of course, such as, talking about, to begin with, what is more
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2992.0 2235.4752809 134% => OK
No of words: 530.0 442.535393258 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.64528301887 5.05705443957 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.79809637944 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.29565989667 2.79657885939 118% => OK
Unique words: 276.0 215.323595506 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.520754716981 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 953.1 704.065955056 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Interrogative: 3.0 0.740449438202 405% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 71.0761725632 60.3974514979 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.086956522 118.986275619 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0434782609 23.4991977007 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.13043478261 5.21951772744 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.24096407609 0.243740707755 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0789287086056 0.0831039109588 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.050824290585 0.0758088955206 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.174232853194 0.150359130593 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.037578143192 0.0667264976115 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 14.1392134831 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 31.21 48.8420337079 64% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.79 12.1639044944 130% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.13 8.38706741573 109% => OK
difficult_words: 146.0 100.480337079 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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