Claim: Colleges and universities should specify all required courses and eliminate elective courses in order to provide clear guidane for students.Reason: College students-like people in general-prefer to follow directions rather than make their own decis

Youngsters are future of a nation. Their education is an important aspect and contributes in the progress of society and nation. It is a constant topic of debate among students and college administrations whether elective courses should be offered to students or should be eliminated, so that students will not face any confusion in making decision regarding the choice of subjects to be taken. I personally believe that variety of subjects should be provided to students. There are certain reasons to it which I am going to explore in the following essay.

First and foremost, elective courses give chance to students to choose subjects according to their interest. Students should not be made to study subjects according to the college specified courses, as these courses decide their career. Hence, in this matter it is important that they are decision maker. For example, if colleges eliminate elective courses than students would become bound to study the course defined by college. In such case, it may happen that a student who has penchant towards journalism and mass communication course, will end up studying engineering. Thus, he may not get satisfied in his job life. This may result in frustration in the professional front. The variety of courses give them chance to make choice in which they wanted to pursue their career.

Besides this, college student are at a stage where they know which subjects are of their interest. Accordingly, they can take decision. Moreover, they are the one who has to do job after completion of the course, if they are happy than they can do better in the future, as they will put their heart and soul in it. However, if limited courses are available than they may take course in which they will not be able to give their best. Thus, they may not be able t score good marks in the examinations and situation may become difficult in finding the job. In case, they find a job they may not be able to carry the job related tasks wholeheartedly. In this way it will be difficult for society to progress.

Last but not the least, statement given that generally people like to follow instructions rather than making their own decision cannot be applied for all. There are many people who are dominating and don't like to follow directions given to them. However, there are people who are submissive in nature. They will follow all the instructions given to them without giving much thought about the consequences. A dominating person will make his own path and by following his own directions. Likewise, students should be given freedom to make their choice regarding the subjects and career. In this way they will learn to make decisions on their own and can think rationally regarding any mater of life. Which is very important thing to learn, as parents or teachers cannot help in making decision at every turn of life.

To conclude, I would like to reiterate my point that students should be given fair chance to decide their courses and thus, should not be eliminated. Not all people like to follow the instructions, so general comment should not be made.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 201, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
... are many people who are dominating and dont like to follow directions given to them...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, besides, but, first, hence, however, if, likewise, may, moreover, regarding, so, thus, as to, for example, of course

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.5258426966 154% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 30.0 12.4196629213 242% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 55.0 33.0505617978 166% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 75.0 58.6224719101 128% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2582.0 2235.4752809 116% => OK
No of words: 529.0 442.535393258 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.8809073724 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.79583152331 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62502219576 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 215.323595506 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.432892249527 0.4932671777 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 799.2 704.065955056 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.6749992398 60.3974514979 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 86.0666666667 118.986275619 72% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6333333333 23.4991977007 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.3 5.21951772744 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.298770395255 0.243740707755 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0843266603678 0.0831039109588 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0802018273237 0.0758088955206 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.187364203563 0.150359130593 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0596724076396 0.0667264976115 89% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 14.1392134831 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 48.8420337079 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.1743820225 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.73 12.1639044944 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.2 8.38706741573 86% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 100.480337079 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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