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

The education industry is promoting the needs of shaping students into a all-rounded persons in recent years. Some stakeholders suggest that schools should provide STEM courses, which included science, technology, engineering and mathematics modules to equipped students the ability to adapt in the emerging development of technology world. Others devote that students should read imaginative literatures such as novels and mythologies in order to earn creativity. It is undeniably agreed that reading stories and fictions could boost the readers' imagination. However, it should be included into the regulated syllabus of college study.

Imagination is vital for accomplishing task, especially when creating new products. Under-water houses and floating buildings appeared only in fairytales in the old days. However, thanks to the architects' creativity stimulated by the crazy thoughts from movies, those "impossible" buildings are possible nowadays. Studying mythology might also help students to understand the culture of a place better. In traditional Chinese myths, monsters would come to attack the villagers on every Chinese New Year. Therefore, villagers put red posters outside of their doors so as to scare away the monster. That's why you could understand why Chinese love red. Reading imaginative literatures does bring positive impact to students o some extent.

However, if students are mandatory to study those articles during normal lessons, drawbacks would be caused. Firstly, adding extra reading materials into the existing teaching modules would definitely increase the students' workload. If homework or test is assigned, they would feel stressed when doing revision. Besides of burdening the study workloads, reading too much imaginative works might make the readers mix up the reality with the virtual world. We could always hear news that youths who are over-addicted into comics or video games and acting like the virtual characters in real world. That might lead to serious consequences, such social-isolation or even physical harms.

Indeed, reading stories is not the only way to develop imagination. Studying geometry in mathematics could also train students not to think solely based on visible information, but also try to form multi-dimentional objects in their mind. Imagination and creativity are also not the only elements of shaping a all-rounded person. Students should also gain inter-personal skills, languages and presenting skills or logical thinkings from college in order to grow well-developed.

To conclude, reading literature is beneficial to college students to certain extent in particular area, but it should not be mandatory to be included in college study. There are still many other ways shaping students into a all-rounded individuals.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, firstly, however, if, so, still, therefore, well, as to, in particular, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 33.0505617978 45% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 58.6224719101 94% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2393.0 2235.4752809 107% => OK
No of words: 416.0 442.535393258 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.75240384615 5.05705443957 114% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51620172871 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.09114707308 2.79657885939 111% => OK
Unique words: 246.0 215.323595506 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.591346153846 0.4932671777 120% => OK
syllable_count: 735.3 704.065955056 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.5568249484 60.3974514979 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.72 118.986275619 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.64 23.4991977007 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.24 5.21951772744 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 7.80617977528 128% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
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: 0.294407733242 0.243740707755 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0750168450321 0.0831039109588 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0844078248495 0.0758088955206 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.174912994809 0.150359130593 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0964614267729 0.0667264976115 145% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.1392134831 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.31 48.8420337079 78% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.77 12.1639044944 130% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.36 8.38706741573 112% => OK
difficult_words: 130.0 100.480337079 129% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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