Exercise III

Let’s look at the following text. First, read the original essay several times to make surethat you understand each paragraph well.

Students Rights

I. Who knows better than the students than themselves what a university should do for them and how they should be treated? Yet how often do students have any say at all in such important issue as faculty selection, curriculum planning and scheduling? The answer is obvious: never. If university administrations refuse to include student representatives in the decision/making process, something drastic must be done.
II. Let’s examine what is happening right here on our own campus in the areas mentioned above. The first major issue is the selection of faculty members. Never in the history of this college has a student been permitted to interview to examine the credential of, or even meet prospective professors. All hiring is done by joint administrative-faculty committee, often made up of people will not even have extensive dealing with individual after day begin teaching. Those who have the most at stake and whose lives and academic careers will be governed by the professor- the students themselves- never even meet the new teachers until the first class meeting. No one is better equipped to evaluate a professor’s ability to communicate with students than those whom her or she intends to teach. Anyone can read curriculum vitae to ascertain the level of professional training and experience someone has had, but the best judges of a teacher’s ability to teach, which is the primary function of any professor in undoubtedly the students themselves.
III. Students’ interests in and commitment to appropriate curricula are even more obvious. We have come to college with very specific purpose in mind: To prepare ourselves intellectually and practically for the future. We know what we need to learn in order to complete successfully with others in our chosen fields. Why should we be kept out of the curriculum planning process? If we pay for the text books, spend hours in the library doing research, and burn the midnight oil studying for the test and exams, why are we not permitted to give our opinions about the materials we will spend some many hours studying? It is imperative that our views be made known to curriculum planners.
IV. The area of scheduling is of vital interest to students. The hours at which classes are pffered affect us daily. Many of us must juggle work and class schedules, but often administrators ignore such problems when day schedules classes. Schedules must must be convenient and flexible so that all students have equal opportunities take the most popular classes and those that are most essential to their majors. If students help with scheduling, never would there be two required courses offered at the same time for only one semester per academic years. Never would we have to wait two or three semesters to take a course that is a pre-requisite for other desired courses, nor would we have to rise across campus in ten minutes to get from one class to the next. Students are vitally concerned with scheduling.
V. In the 1960s and early 1970s, students were not too shy of fearful to demonstrate against the injustices they saw in the draft system and Vietnam conflict. Why should students today be afraid to voice their opinions about the very important issues that affect their lives?
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Thesis: The importance of having a representaive of students in the taking of all the important desitions related to students rights.
· I(Main idea): Students are the most cuallified to solve some problems related to school.
· II(Main idea): The issues that affect the campus and can't be solved by students.
· III(Main idea): The increasing interest of students in all the things related to the university.
· IV(Main idea): The interest of students in their schedules.
· V(Main idea):Students of the past speak up their opinions about the problems of that time, students of the present should do the same.