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[Aiuna]

Issue Essay

Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study.

University policy on additional courses should be positive.

When a student takes a broad variety of subjects, he/she is able to change the profession later without additional education. A creative writer can go for an acting job in case he studied acting in the university. A scientist can start a programming job in case she had some information technology courses. The subjects that are not relevant to the profession are there to leave some place for new profession. There might be opportunities that are high-paid, 100,000 dollars in an area where the student just took a couple of additional courses. Still, the student might try it out and earn experience first-hand, with the help of the courses he briefly heard in the university.

In the universities there are a lot of students who are not decided about their future profession yet. For them the opportunity to listen to courses from different areas is beneficial. They might start their dive into career choice by attending science courses, art courses, sociology, law – everything they could grasp – and make the right decision in the end. Changing profession after getting an education just because a person decides that the job is not a right fit can be expensive and painstaking. So it's worth to take a year or two for attending 6-12 courses from different knowledge areas.

Research-oriented students benefit from learning a broad variety of subjects, while students who intend to start their work as soon as possible benefit from concentrating on their speciality courses. Students who plan to stay in the academia need to have a point of view on every subject – in order to take the inspiration from it. A physicist who listened to a couple of courses on music might start research on physics of music. A programmer who's attended some medical courses might start research on electronic implants. In research all the areas are interconnected.

In conclusion, universities should pursue their students to study a broad variety of subjects. The additional courses are beneficial for both undecided students and future researchers. The policy of universities who don't allow students choosing additional courses costs some interesting research and some unhappy students straggling to change their profession.

Edited October 4, 2015 by Aiuna

[Aiuna]

Argument Essay

According to a recent report, cheating among college and university students is on the rise. However, Groveton College has successfully reduced student cheating by adopting an honor code, which calls for students to agree not to cheat in their academic endeavors and to notify a faculty member if they suspect that others have cheated. Groveton's honor code replaced a system in which teachers closely monitored students; under that system, teachers reported an average of thirty cases of cheating per year. In the first year the honor code was in place, students reported twenty-one cases of cheating; five years later, this figure had dropped to fourteen. Moreover, in a recent survey, a majority of Groveton students said that they would be less likely to cheat with an honor code in place than without. Thus, all colleges and universities should adopt honor codes similar to Groveton's in order to decrease cheating among students.

Groveton College claims to reduce significantly the cheating between the students. The evidences of that are of this: 30 cases of cheating for year before the adoption of an honor code and 14 cases of cheating five years after; there is also a survey that says that students are less likely to cheat with the honor code.

The numbers of the cheating cast doubt on the efficiency of the honor code. What if the number of students in the Groveton College decreased over 60% since the number of students 5 years ago? Then 14 cases of cheating means more cheating in percentage.

In case the number of students roughly remained the same over the years, the survey is not reliable. The respondents answered a question whether an honor code is better than the absence of the honor code with no other opportunity given. While from the passage we esquire that there's been another option 5 years ago – teachers who closely monitored students. The students were not given that variant in the survey: are you more likely to cheat when there's a teacher who's monitoring you, an honor code, or nothing at all?

In the case that the number of the students remained similar and the honor code is effective in the Groveton College, there's still an issue of implementing that honor code in the other universities and colleges. Croveton College might have exceptionally good students, who are not likely to cheat. An entrance in the college might be difficult to get and loosing a place in there might be a disaster for any student. Other colleges and universities have other types of students and not all of them are that prestigious.

In conclusion, the efficiency of the cheating policy of Groveton College should be closely examined in terms of student number and survey reliability. Other universities and colleges need to look at their students motivations and background.

[TheBumChikiBum]

Issue Essay coints to be noted / corrections:

370 words appx. Try to touch at-least 500 words.

1. Avoid starting your essay with a one liner which explicitly states your stand. Try to make a paragraph which takes a holistic view along with supporting your stand. That would be ideal.
2. Instead of stating "100,000 dollars" try to write "thousands of dollars".

3. Sample correction of a particular paragraph : A lot of students are there who have not decided about their future profession yet. For them the opportunity to attend courses from different areas is beneficial. They might go for a career choice based on the science courses, art courses, sociology, law – everything they could grasp – and make the right decision in the end. Changing profession after receiving education for a particular can be expensive and painstaking. So it's worth to take a year or two for attending 6-12 courses from different knowledge areas.

4. Your conclusion states that university should pursue the student. (Why should they?)

5. This essay is in dire need of more ideas. As I say, do not milk the cash cow. Don't stretch the whole essay on one idea.

6. Try including some real world examples, if you can.

7. Make bigger paragraphs.

8. Change in paragraphs should be fluid. This point is to be kept in mind, when you have a substantial amount of ideas to be put in. 

9. Length of the essay matters a lot. Make it as long as you can. 

[TheBumChikiBum]

Argument Essay : 

300 words. Are you kidding me ? 500 words. Please.

1. A paragraph should contain at-least five sentences.
2. Number of questions asked should be around five (minimum).
3. Mention the limitations of your arguments.
4. Mention the limitations of the assumptions stated/ unstated in the RC.
5. Change in paragraphs should be fluid. This point is to be kept in mind, when you have a substantial amount of ideas to be put in. 
6. Length of the essay matters a lot. Make it as long as you can.