A university recognized that first-year students have poor study skills and believed that the best way to address this problem is to require all first-year students to take courses on study skills. Do you think this is a good idea?
Some people think that requiring all freshman students to take courses on study skills can help them gain better study skills, while others disagree. For me, I don't believe this is a good idea. My reasons are as follows.
To begin with, universities should care about their budgets. Nevertheless, requiring all first-year students to take any sort of compulsory course will make them waste too much money. For example, my university once forced all students to participate in a lesson that taught us how to read more efficiently. My university spent more than 500,000 dollars per year hiring teachers who have expertise in the field. Moreover, the professors demanded my school allocate more than 100,000 dollars for textbooks and resources every semester. As a result, my university wasted 10% of the budget on this seemingly useless course. Contrarily, the university started to give first-year students options to not participate in the skill developing course last year. For this reason, the school saved more than 10,000 dollars per year for the lesson, including professors' salaries and teaching resources.
In addition, universities are usually concerned about their reputation, but requesting students to join courses that teach study skills will undoubtedly damage their reputation to a great extent. For example, my sister's college once designed a study skill class and asked every student to take it. Unfortunately, people who are talented at "educating others how to educate oneself" are quite rare in my country. Thus, her school can only find professors that are not well-educated in this field. Therefore, the instructors often had no idea what they were lecturing during the class. These instructors frequently digressed and talked about random topics in the lecture. What's worse, nearly no one in the class was paying attention to the professor. As a result, the quality of that compulsory course made her university obtain a notorious reputation. Had her university not designed such a terrible curriculum, it would not have received such a horrible image.
Last but not least, universities should emphasize students' studies. Yet, asking all freshmen to partake in a specific required course might affect their study. For instance, my cousin is currently a first-year computer science student. He needs to learn various important courses including calculus, physics, chemistry, programming, and data structure. Furthermore, he also joins numerous clubs, including the math club, computer security club, etc. Subsequently, he must study approximately six to eight hours per day. So apparently, he does not have extra time to study additional, unimportant required courses. That is to say, if his school forced him to enter study techniques developing curriculum, he would spend less time on each of his subjects. If this is the case, his basic math, physics, and programming skills will be seriously affected.
To conclude, I maintain that universities should never require all first-year students to take any courses that pertain to study skills. After all, universities should focus on saving their budget, maintaining their reputation, as well as students' studying effectiveness.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, apparently, but, first, furthermore, if, moreover, nevertheless, so, therefore, thus, well, while, after all, for example, for instance, in addition, sort of, as a result, as well as, to begin with, that is to say, to a great extent
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 13.8261648746 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 43.0788530466 116% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 52.1666666667 86% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2724.0 1977.66487455 138% => OK
No of words: 498.0 407.700716846 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.46987951807 4.8611393121 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72397222731 4.48103885553 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93386619423 2.67179642975 110% => OK
Unique words: 279.0 212.727598566 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.560240963855 0.524837075471 107% => OK
syllable_count: 827.1 618.680645161 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 18.0 9.59856630824 188% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.51792114695 199% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 31.0 20.6003584229 150% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.348380232 48.9658058833 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.8709677419 100.406767564 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.064516129 20.6045352989 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.67741935484 5.45110844103 141% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 3.85842293907 285% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.88709677419 225% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.395838894481 0.236089414692 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0952802864287 0.076458572812 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0919585324771 0.0737576698707 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.245758784829 0.150856017488 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.061093273748 0.0645574589148 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 11.7677419355 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.78 58.1214874552 80% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.1575268817 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.15 10.9000537634 130% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.01818996416 107% => OK
difficult_words: 130.0 86.8835125448 150% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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