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.
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.
The arguer claims that, for providing clear guidance for students, colleges and universities should specify all required courses and eliminate elective courses. Moreover, generally, college students prefer to follow directions instead of making their own decisions. Although the claim and reason might hold true in some degree, I tend to disagree with them.
Firstly, since different student have different backgrounds, which means that they glean various education when growing up, leading to diverse ways of thinking. For instance, a student brought up in a single-parent and poor family might be more independent due to the lack of family support. On the contrary, a student living in a wealth family might get used to follow directions by his parents, since he has accustomed with well-prepared supports of the family. Thus, we could not draw a conclusion that college students are more willing to follow guidance rather than to make decisions on their own.
Secondly, without considering about the specific circumstance, the speaker assumes that college students would prefer to follow directions in every condition. There is a great possibility that, when making different kinds of choices in studying and daily life, college students could have controversial performances. If they would like to attend some entertainment activities, such as going to the concerts or watching movies, then they would be more likely to ask for guidance to learn about the latest trend, and follow the advises. However, when it comes to career planning, they would mainly follow their heart to seek jobs which meet their interests and capabilities. On this occasion, the argument seems unwarranted.
Lastly, the policy of specifying all required courses while eliminating elective courses to provide clear guidance for students betrays the requirement of encouraging exploring, which is one of the most critical tents in colleges and universities. Compared with the core target of high schools, the one of colleges and universities is give stronger support to students to explore whatever they are interested in and broaden their horizon. However, if we specify the courses to students, it might well happen that students would be faced with more boundaries in learning, especially for those who have already found their goals.
To sum up, I concede there are reasonable aspects in the claim and reason, however, either of scenarios, if true, could rival the arguments dramatically. Therefore, the colleges and universities should take these circumstances into acoount when designing courses.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, lastly, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, thus, well, while, for instance, such as, on the contrary, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 19.5258426966 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 58.6224719101 99% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2192.0 2235.4752809 98% => OK
No of words: 400.0 442.535393258 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.48 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.472135955 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86555404765 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 215.323595506 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.56 0.4932671777 114% => OK
syllable_count: 658.8 704.065955056 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.948971245 60.3974514979 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.941176471 118.986275619 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5294117647 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.05882352941 5.21951772744 174% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.486667872596 0.243740707755 200% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.147510623793 0.0831039109588 178% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.127559740165 0.0758088955206 168% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.27579722803 0.150359130593 183% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.148560661306 0.0667264976115 223% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 14.1392134831 114% => 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: 14.8 12.1639044944 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.92 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
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: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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