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
Most times, college students face serious problem in selecting the courses they will do in each semester. The prompt addresses this problem. The prompt claim that colleges and universities should make all required courses specified to students and eliminate elective courses for clear guidance for the students. This claim is based on the premise that students prefer to follow specified route rather than self-decision. I mostly agree with the claim that colleges and universities should make all core courses specified to student and remove the elective courses for the stated reason. However, there are other reasons why elective courses are to be eliminated and university required courses to be specified. Moreover, it is in a way advantageous if elective courses are not eliminated and student allowed to choose not only from the core courses but from the elective courses also.
Generally, people are more guided when directions are provided. This is applicable to college students. They prefer having their core courses spelt out as they see this to properly guide them. For example, a first-year college students tend to get confused in choosing the courses to be offered simply because they have no idea of which one is best fit for their goal. Another example is an engineering student, who knows little about the field, he will prefer the courses required to be stated rather than him choosing on his own. Due to the two examples cited, people find it preferable to follow the specified courses that are require.
Other than the reason provided above, college students find it more fulfilling when they do the courses that are related to their field. In other words, doing elective courses from other fields make student feel as if their time is being wasted. For example, a mathematics student, who has natural love for numbers would be happy to see the required courses like geometry, calculus and more rather than seeing courses like history, literacy and government. Also, it can be traced to our early scientist such as Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin and more, were evident through their results that they were fulfilled and they enjoyed what they were doing. This can be traced back to the colleges, they did not do any courses aside sciences. Therefore, to enjoy learning and be fulfilled, elective courses should be eliminated and core courses should be specified.
However, specifying all required courses while elective courses are eliminated is not the best in all cases, as this can limit students who are interested in other courses that are outside their field and thereby limit their productivity. For example, Mark Zukerberg, the founder of Facebook who happens to have his field in Tech, got the idea of facebook when he offered an elective course in sociology. Given students the opportunity to choose the courses they will offer, help them to be vast and increase their productivity.
In conclusion, while colleges and universities should specify all required courses for students, they should be flexible in eliminating elective courses as this will make student not to be limited.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 880, Rule ID: ALSO_SENT_END[1]
Message: 'Also' is not used at the end of the sentence. Use 'as well' instead.
Suggestion: as well
...e courses but from the elective courses also. Generally, people are more guided whe...
^^^^
Line 2, column 630, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'required'.
Suggestion: required
...o follow the specified courses that are require. Other than the reason provided abov...
^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 639, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...the specified courses that are require. Other than the reason provided above, co...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, moreover, so, therefore, while, for example, in conclusion, such as, in all cases, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 34.0 19.5258426966 174% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 33.0505617978 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 58.6224719101 84% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 12.9106741573 15% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2611.0 2235.4752809 117% => OK
No of words: 508.0 442.535393258 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13976377953 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74751043592 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56766193467 2.79657885939 92% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 215.323595506 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.438976377953 0.4932671777 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 817.2 704.065955056 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.5077364 60.3974514979 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.52173913 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0869565217 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5652173913 5.21951772744 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.528794599205 0.243740707755 217% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.187863719206 0.0831039109588 226% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.134562635792 0.0758088955206 178% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.353430078804 0.150359130593 235% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.114617487805 0.0667264976115 172% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.1639044944 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.96 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 880, Rule ID: ALSO_SENT_END[1]
Message: 'Also' is not used at the end of the sentence. Use 'as well' instead.
Suggestion: as well
...e courses but from the elective courses also. Generally, people are more guided whe...
^^^^
Line 2, column 630, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'required'.
Suggestion: required
...o follow the specified courses that are require. Other than the reason provided abov...
^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 639, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...the specified courses that are require. Other than the reason provided above, co...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, moreover, so, therefore, while, for example, in conclusion, such as, in all cases, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 34.0 19.5258426966 174% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 33.0505617978 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 49.0 58.6224719101 84% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 12.9106741573 15% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2611.0 2235.4752809 117% => OK
No of words: 508.0 442.535393258 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13976377953 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74751043592 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56766193467 2.79657885939 92% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 215.323595506 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.438976377953 0.4932671777 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 817.2 704.065955056 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.5077364 60.3974514979 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.52173913 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0869565217 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5652173913 5.21951772744 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.528794599205 0.243740707755 217% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.187863719206 0.0831039109588 226% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.134562635792 0.0758088955206 178% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.353430078804 0.150359130593 235% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.114617487805 0.0667264976115 172% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.53 12.1639044944 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.96 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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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.