Educational institutions should dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed.
Write a response in which you discuss your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider the possible consequences of implementing the policy and explain how these consequences shape your position.
While educational institutions are responsible to provide students with a realistic picture of what qualities or skills are expected in their desired fields of study, they are never in a position to dissuade the students from pursuing any fields of study, even the likelihood that they are to succeed in the field is minimal.
It is a widely-held belief that everyone has their own designated role in the society determined his or her talent. Instead of trying to excel in all realms of knowledge, focusing one's energy on where one's talent lies is the most economical way to succeed in that field. This forms the main argument for colleges to guide students to the field that they are most competitive in. However, in reality, this rather idealistic policy becomes problematic.
The process of judging a student's likelihood of mastering a field of study can be prone to bias and fallacy. A straightforward judgment can be made based on a student's background. Under this policy, the college may decide that an international student is less likely to succeed in the field of poetry, as English is their second language. While this assumption seems entirely reasonable and is potentially true in most cases, there are amazing foreign writers, such as Joseph Brodsky, who picked up English very late in their life, and produced spectacular work that inspired generations of English speakers to come. This is because they have passion for their chosen field, and that can overcome the slight disadvantages they may initially have. Another way of judging could be based on past performances, but this could lead to students who had less opportunities in their childhood to showcase their ability in a certain field to be constantly deterred from pursuing this new field of study. A philosophy class may be a luxury for disadvantaged schools, but a bright mind may dream of being able to one day deliberate the meaning of life.
Moreover, the very process of putting oneself to challenge is incredibly valuable to the development of a person's character. Through struggles and failure, the student can discover important qualities of him- or herself otherwise unknown. By putting carbon under extremely high pressure, diamond is produced. Overcoming barriers and challenges can be a highly rewarding process, that every person needs to go through at some stage in his or her life. By encouraging students to only pursue what they are best at, the college shield them from the necessary exposure of challenges in life. This overprotective policy may render them susceptible to breakdown later in life, if bigger difficulties were to arise, which they will.
As argued above, it is vital that educational institutions refrain from judgment of a student's potential in a field, for that judgment could be misplaced; and that educational institutions maintain a positive attitude towards exposing students to necessary challenges in life, especially when the students are determined to overcome them.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
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Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...nowledge, focusing ones energy on where ones talent lies is the most economical way ...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...roblematic. The process of judging a students likelihood of mastering a field of stud...
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Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to field'
Suggestion: to field
...ause they have passion for their chosen field, and that can overcome the slight disad...
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Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun opportunities is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...but this could lead to students who had less opportunities in their childhood to sho...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'persons'' or 'person's'?
Suggestion: persons'; person's
...edibly valuable to the development of a persons character. Through struggles and failur...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'moreover', 'second', 'so', 'while', 'such as', 'in most cases']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.219281663516 0.240241500013 91% => OK
Verbs: 0.168241965974 0.157235817809 107% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0907372400756 0.0880659088768 103% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0453686200378 0.0497285424764 91% => OK
Pronouns: 0.047258979206 0.0444667217837 106% => OK
Prepositions: 0.134215500945 0.12292977631 109% => OK
Participles: 0.0453686200378 0.0406280797675 112% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.91342759782 2.79330140395 104% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0415879017013 0.030933414821 134% => OK
Particles: 0.00378071833648 0.0016655270985 227% => Less particles wanted.
Determiners: 0.0945179584121 0.0997080785238 95% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0264650283554 0.0249443105267 106% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0170132325142 0.0148568991511 115% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2997.0 2732.02544248 110% => OK
No of words: 485.0 452.878318584 107% => OK
Chars per words: 6.1793814433 6.0361032391 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69283662038 4.58838876751 102% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.39587628866 0.366273622748 108% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.319587628866 0.280924506359 114% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.235051546392 0.200843997647 117% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.136082474227 0.132149295362 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91342759782 2.79330140395 104% => OK
Unique words: 255.0 219.290929204 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.525773195876 0.48968727796 107% => OK
Word variations: 62.528700888 55.4138127331 113% => OK
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6194690265 92% => OK
Sentence length: 25.5263157895 23.380412469 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 79.0105010728 59.4972553346 133% => OK
Chars per sentence: 157.736842105 141.124799967 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.5263157895 23.380412469 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.526315789474 0.674092028746 78% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.21349557522 115% => OK
Readability: 57.4850786761 51.4728631049 112% => OK
Elegance: 1.52898550725 1.64882698954 93% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.388509771907 0.391690518653 99% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.086487773022 0.123202303941 70% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0557379451186 0.077325440228 72% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.515282722535 0.547984918172 94% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.208059227406 0.149214159877 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.146644769021 0.161403998019 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0848996740047 0.0892212321368 95% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.37486329395 0.385218514788 97% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0569187083327 0.0692045440612 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.280073748072 0.275328986314 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.059944352573 0.0653680567796 92% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.4325221239 125% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.30420353982 94% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88274336283 20% => More neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 10.0 7.22455752212 138% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 3.66592920354 109% => OK
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.70907079646 37% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 13.5995575221 110% => OK
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Rates: 91.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 6
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