College students should base their choice of a field of study on the availability of jobs in that field.
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.
What should be a main factor when college students make a decision about which field of study they study? Since pursuing tertiary education costs students a huge amount of financial and time resources, such decision-making should not be based on romantic idea, such as ‘follow your dream.’ Of course, job availability should not be the only element for the consideration. Still, however, it is difficult to deny that it is one of the most important considering factors for the following reasons.
Firstly, considering the amount of money higher education costs, the choice of major should be considered with a practical view—getting a job. Every year a number of students graduate with their degrees as well as a huge debt they can repay only by working for decades. Such issue has been worsened that the recent article on New York Times reported that approximately 30% of the university graduates are behind the repayment schedule or failed to repay their student loan. Thus, if the graduate certificate cannot help students to secure a job, what would be the purpose of obtaining a degree, when the outcome will be left with a huge amount of debt?
Secondly, considering the possibility of leading to a job when choosing a major does not necessarily mean that one should relinquish his or her own interests. Rather, by considering how one’s interests can fit in a field of study that is also related to a lucrative job, he or she can still study without totally failing to ensure a future employment. According to my personal experience, for example, I have been always interested in interactions among people and how people develop relationships with each other. Of course, I could have majored Social Science or Psychology, which are heavily theory-focused field of study, I decided to be more practical by choosing Social Work instead, in which many workers are needed. By doing so, I can study what I am interested but still can have a good chance of get a job in the future.
Of course, some people may still argue that students still prioritize the academic purity when they decide their field of study by strictly focusing on their own interests and curiosity. However, it would be too idealistic and irresponsible to encourage students to choose a field of study solely based on their academic passion or simple curiosity. Not to mention the amount of tuition fee they have to repay in the near future, the job market is becoming more and more competitive. Therefore, it is necessary to advise students to consider the employment issues since it would be the real world they will be living in, not the ideal world.
To sum, it would be an ideal for students if they could choose their field of study solely based on their personal interests without considering practical issues. However, such decision-making cannot be considered wise, especially when tuition fees are extremely expensive and the job market is highly competitive. Moreover, taking an employment factor into the consideration does not necessarily mean that one should compromise his or her interests. Therefore, students should make their choice of field of study based on the availability of jobs.
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flaws:
Need more argument in the fourth paragraph: what's wrong with students prioritizing the academic purity when they decide their field of study by strictly focusing on their own interests and curiosity.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 530 350
No. of Characters: 2587 1500
No. of Different Words: 241 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.798 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.881 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.767 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 185 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 129 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 95 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 65 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.087 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.85 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.33 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.543 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.093 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 410, Rule ID: ADVERB_WORD_ORDER[8]
Message: The adverb 'always' is usually put between 'have' and 'been'.
Suggestion: have always been
... my personal experience, for example, I have been always interested in interactions among people...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'firstly', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'moreover', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'still', 'therefore', 'thus', 'well', 'for example', 'in fact', 'of course', 'such as', 'as well as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.219594594595 0.240241500013 91% => OK
Verbs: 0.162162162162 0.157235817809 103% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0793918918919 0.0880659088768 90% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0777027027027 0.0497285424764 156% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0557432432432 0.0444667217837 125% => OK
Prepositions: 0.113175675676 0.12292977631 92% => OK
Participles: 0.0540540540541 0.0406280797675 133% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.90219573013 2.79330140395 104% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0253378378378 0.030933414821 82% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0793918918919 0.0997080785238 80% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0388513513514 0.0249443105267 156% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0236486486486 0.0148568991511 159% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3203.0 2732.02544248 117% => OK
No of words: 529.0 452.878318584 117% => OK
Chars per words: 6.05482041588 6.0361032391 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.79583152331 4.58838876751 105% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.364839319471 0.366273622748 100% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.266540642722 0.280924506359 95% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.202268431002 0.200843997647 101% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.134215500945 0.132149295362 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90219573013 2.79330140395 104% => OK
Unique words: 246.0 219.290929204 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.465028355388 0.48968727796 95% => OK
Word variations: 54.4368194001 55.4138127331 98% => OK
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6194690265 97% => OK
Sentence length: 26.45 23.380412469 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.9908526381 59.4972553346 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 160.15 141.124799967 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.45 23.380412469 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.0 0.674092028746 148% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.21349557522 19% => OK
Readability: 53.1040642722 51.4728631049 103% => OK
Elegance: 1.30857142857 1.64882698954 79% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.506922640714 0.391690518653 129% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.106261310393 0.123202303941 86% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0702736507337 0.077325440228 91% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.519699067492 0.547984918172 95% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.105025103799 0.149214159877 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.196861858311 0.161403998019 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0787884945201 0.0892212321368 88% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.371847698893 0.385218514788 97% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0773816534122 0.0692045440612 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.344635589511 0.275328986314 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.027814644721 0.0653680567796 43% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.4325221239 96% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.30420353982 113% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88274336283 82% => OK
Positive topic words: 9.0 7.22455752212 125% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 3.66592920354 136% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.70907079646 148% => OK
Total topic words: 18.0 13.5995575221 132% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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