Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
Claim: Colleges and universities should specify all required courses and eliminate elective courses in order to provide clear guidance for students.
Reason: College students - like people in general - prefer to follow directions rather than make their own decisions.
The author claims that specifying all required courses and eliminating elective courses by Colleges and universities will provide clear guidance to students as students prefer to follow directions than making their own decisions. Surely, this claim does seem convincing at first but from further analysis, I would not agree completely with the author's point of view.
Firstly, the author has provided the reason for eliminating the elective courses to provide clear guidance for students. But many colleges and universities have a separate counseling department that works for giving guidance to students. Hence, in this case, even though the students have the freedom to choose subjects of their choice, they are able to make a good decision. Thus, without eliminating the elective courses, a college or a university can provide clear guidance for their students.
Secondly, the reason presented seems to be abiding by the given claim. As the students are more influenced by the choices of their fellow colleagues and tend to change their opinions according to others’ preferences. Due to which the student won’t be able to make a fair choice and inhibit his learning to the opinions of others. In order to avoid this, it will be a good choice if colleges and universities specify all required courses and eliminate elective courses in order to provide clear guidance for students. This will prevent the students from following directions rather than making their own decisions.
Furthermore, it is important to note that a college or a university has to provide sufficient knowledge about the course for which a student has opted. Hence it is necessary for the University to provide the students with fundamental knowledge of the course in order to make wise decisions while selecting the electives. For instance, in a professional course like Engineering, the students are given the option of choosing the electives during the final year only. This is because the junior students are neophytes and hence lack enough knowledge of the course to choose the electives. Thus, colleges and universities must provide students basic knowledge about the course, instead of eliminating the elective courses, in order to make them capable of making a fair choice between the subjects.
To sum up, Colleges and universities should provide guidance to the students for the selection of electives, also with it the basic knowledge of the course is essential. Moreover, at times the claim seems to be correct as too many choices might confuse the students and hence will prefer the following direction rather than making their own decisions.
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- Government officials should rely on their own judgment rather than unquestioningly carry out the will of the people they serve 50
- Government officials should rely on their own judgment rather than unquestioningly carry out the will of the people they serve 51
- People should undertake risky action only after they have carefully considered its consequences 54
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 131, Rule ID: FELLOW_CLASSMATE[1]
Message: Use simply 'colleagues'.
Suggestion: colleagues
...more influenced by the choices of their fellow colleagues and tend to change their opinions accor...
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Line 4, column 152, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...e course for which a student has opted. Hence it is necessary for the University to p...
^^^^^
Line 4, column 796, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ing a fair choice between the subjects. To sum up, Colleges and universities sho...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, hence, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, while, as to, for instance, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.3162921348 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 33.0505617978 70% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 58.6224719101 97% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2218.0 2235.4752809 99% => OK
No of words: 422.0 442.535393258 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25592417062 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53239876712 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76198024047 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 215.323595506 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.42654028436 0.4932671777 86% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 695.7 704.065955056 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.7268050851 60.3974514979 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.222222222 118.986275619 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4444444444 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 5.21951772744 134% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.24036383224 0.243740707755 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0913984930151 0.0831039109588 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0701957903181 0.0758088955206 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.161266686181 0.150359130593 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0559099703807 0.0667264976115 84% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.1392134831 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.1639044944 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.55 8.38706741573 90% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 100.480337079 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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