Universities should require students to take courses only within those fields they are interested in studying.
Write a response in which you discuss your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider the possible consequences of implementing the policy and explain how these consequences shape your position.
Universities should implement a system in which students take courses related to their field(s) of interest for the following reasons.
Many students in America take a gap year from high school to work to be able to attend a university. Even so, they find themselves in debt, taking out loans if government aid is not sufficient. In todays day and age, it is a well-known fact that attending college is expensive. The amount of debt and loans students have to pay back is outrageous and even getting media coverage. Students would spend the following months, even years, post graduation to pay back their loans and accumulated interest. It is an inefficient and even deadly cycle, which does not come as a surprise to anyone. This is due to the fact that, students have to go to university, to get a degree, to get work, to get money, to then pay back their student loans. When will their lives actually begin debt free? If universities created a policy in which the only requirement was for students to complete courses for their major or field of interest, that would be 2 years worth of tuition and fees saved.
Most universities have 4 year programs, and if students want to get a higher education, that would be an additional 2-4 years of schooling. Within the 4 years spent at a university institution, the first 2 years are mainly dedicated to completing general education requirements. This uneccessary delay leads to students working later in life. They not only start working in their mid to late twenties, but it is also a waste of time taking classes to learn materials they will never need in their field of work. The 2 extra years spent taking useless classes could be spent on gaining experience through work, volunteering, or an internship, and for it to be a stepping stone into their future careers.
The opposing side may make the argument that without general education requirements, no one would willingly take general education courses. If students are required to take extra courses, this may lead to new discoveries and interests. This is simply not true. Students do not need to be forced to take courses they may find interest in because they will take the course willingly if it peaks their interest. They are adults and can make decisions for themselves without being told by authority.
It is uneccessary to require students to stay an extra 2 years solely for general education requirement courses that do not pertain to their field(s) of interest or their major.
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- Universities should require students to take courses only within those fields they are interested in studying.Write a response in which you discuss your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting 58
- A nation should require all schools to have the same national curriculum before students enter college. 66
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, if, may, so, then, well, as for, even so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 58.6224719101 94% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2074.0 2235.4752809 93% => OK
No of words: 428.0 442.535393258 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.84579439252 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.548423998 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72247899318 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.490654205607 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 630.0 704.065955056 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.3884113904 60.3974514979 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.7619047619 118.986275619 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.380952381 23.4991977007 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.2380952381 5.21951772744 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
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: 0.236348280325 0.243740707755 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0776904286633 0.0831039109588 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0769044941628 0.0758088955206 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.172728525542 0.150359130593 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0599701439304 0.0667264976115 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 14.1392134831 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.8420337079 122% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.85 12.1639044944 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.76 8.38706741573 93% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 100.480337079 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.