Educational institutions should actively encourage their students to choose fields of study that will prepare them for lucrative careers.
It has been a trend in many countries that university students choose the majors like economy and computer science which are more likely to find decent jobs when they graduate from their schools. In view of it, the speaker argues that students should be encouraged by educational institutions to choose majors which are beneficial for them to find well-paid jobs. I mostly disagree with this statement because of two reasons though there are more ones whereas the statement itself has its own reason.
This suggestion may benefit both the market and the students because the lucrative careers like programmer are usually what the market urgently desires. For instance, artificial intelligence (AI) is a super hot field recently, in which students in China can have such a high salary up to 20,000 RMB which is much higher than that of the other jobs. So, students who choose to study this field are more likely to hunt a well-paid job and have a decent life. It also provides more related talents for the market so that the economy of our society can develop faster. Considering that educational institutions should serve the students and provide the talents the market need, the suggestion seems quite reasonable.
However, the present profitable fields do not necessarily mean that they are equally desirable in the future. As we all know, the situation of this world are changing so fast that we can not make sure whether the job market will hugely change in even a short period, which is quite easy to make it several decades ago. A particularly typical example is English teacher which was a quite hot job in China a decade ago because Chinese began to attach importance to English when China was more open to the world. But it has been out of favor as the job market of English teacher has been almost saturated and there appear more English-learning Apps developed using AI technology which means less human English teachers are needed. So students who chose English as major might get stuck in job hunting if they happened to catch the end of its prosperity.
Moreover, it may backfire if the student just lacks interest in this field. Interest, as we all know, may be the most important factor which determines how well and how long the students go in this field. Supposing a student choose to study the lucrative field like computer science under the influence of the encourage from the university because he or she is lost and has no career plan at that time, he or she may find it is so boring and abstruse that he or she can not tolerate it anymore. How could we expect a student like that could learn it well enough to have a decent job whereby it and contribute to this society?
To sum up, I mostly object to the statement these reasons mentioned above, while it has a good intention. Instead, I would like to put up an alternative one that students can balance the interest and career prospect when they choose their majors.
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- In any field of endeavor, it is impossible to make a significant contribution without first being influenced by past achievement within that field. 79
- Formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free. 83
- Some people believe that college students should consider their own talents and interests when choosing a field of a study. Others believe that base their choice of a field of study on the availability of jobs in that field. 66
- Universities should require every student take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study. 66
- Nations should pass laws to preserve any remaining wilderness areas in their national state, even if these areas could be developed for economic gain. 70
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 13, column 307, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...computer science under the influence of the encourage from the university because he or she i...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, moreover, so, well, whereas, while, for instance, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 24.0 11.3162921348 212% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 54.0 33.0505617978 163% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 52.0 58.6224719101 89% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2450.0 2235.4752809 110% => OK
No of words: 513.0 442.535393258 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.77582846004 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75914943092 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51339257113 2.79657885939 90% => OK
Unique words: 253.0 215.323595506 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.493177387914 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 772.2 704.065955056 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.1086907275 60.3974514979 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.947368421 118.986275619 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.0 23.4991977007 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.63157894737 5.21951772744 89% => 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 : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.217707845446 0.243740707755 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0705452935534 0.0831039109588 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0702249337986 0.0758088955206 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123777901337 0.150359130593 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0645464513353 0.0667264976115 97% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 14.1392134831 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 48.8420337079 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 12.1743820225 103% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.74 12.1639044944 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 100.480337079 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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