Educational institutions have a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed
Today, it is widely accepted that students attend a university to enhance their education in a certain field of study in order to hone their skills in hopes that they will secure a suitable job following their graduation and enjoy a prosperous career. To facilitate this process, educational institutions may advise students to pursue certain fields in which they may most likely succeed so that they can enjoy a prosperous career. However, this logic is fallacious due primarily to the fact that financial success isn’t the only indicator of ultimate success or happiness.
First of all, students should be able to exercise their free will of choosing a course of study which best fits their interests. Pursuing a field of study which a student detests only invites future unhappiness and regret. As the philosopher Alan Watts has claimed, there is no point in living to earn money a job you despise so that you may live and keep working at a job you despise. Happiness often supersedes financial success, and to deprive yourself of happiness for the sake of financial success would be an abject personal injustice. Instead, a better course of action would be to pursue your interests first a foremost, and to advise against that would be a disservice committed by the educational institution.
Furthermore, to goad you into a particular course of study due to the promise of success is a somewhat vague task. Presumably, the institution would be seeking to enhance primarily your financial success since that is the most tangible and obvious form of success. However, financial success may preclude other forms of success which may be more rewarding. For example, if an individual would abandon their pursuit of becoming a famous actress for the sake of a financially stable accounting job at the suggestion of her educational institution, she may be abandoning the rewards of successfully performing in front of an audience and the recognition of artistic success.
However, it cannot be overlooked that educational institutions have a responsibility to guide students to the best of their ability. As a college student, you willingly surrender thousands of dollars to an institution in hopes of a bright future. This investment would be squandered if the institution didn’t utilize their experience and knowledge of the job market and personal skills to best advise every student. However, even large institutions can’t predict the future, and their expert advice may prove useless a few years after graduation when suddenly recent grads are grappling in a changing job market.
In conclusion, while educational institutions may have the best interests of their students in mind when they advise them to chose specific courses of study, this logic may prove specious. A bright young individual may enjoy financial success and stability, but at the cost of their own aspirations, and the job market may even change so that their stable, successful job is no longer stable, leaving college grads poor, wistful, and unhappy.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, furthermore, however, if, look, may, so, while, for example, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.4196629213 185% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 33.0505617978 127% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 61.0 58.6224719101 104% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2551.0 2235.4752809 114% => OK
No of words: 492.0 442.535393258 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18495934959 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70967865282 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89246995565 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 236.0 215.323595506 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.479674796748 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 797.4 704.065955056 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.0122360702 60.3974514979 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.722222222 118.986275619 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.3333333333 23.4991977007 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.55555555556 5.21951772744 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => 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: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.213005492887 0.243740707755 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0858772023994 0.0831039109588 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0919447605515 0.0758088955206 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.134573983036 0.150359130593 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0683120824859 0.0667264976115 102% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 14.1392134831 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.06 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.92 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 123.0 100.480337079 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => 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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