#13. Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study. Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your positi

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

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.

Today a lot of universities try to make it mandatory for students to take subjects unrelated to their majors. For example, some universities offer all students a compulsory liberal arts course and others require students to take a computer programming class regardless of their majors. I agree that most students in universities should have chances to take various courses outside their field of study. Critics may argue that the universities should cultivate professional talent and nowadays society needs not well-rounded people but experts in each field. However, such arguments are alienated from reality. Students who have just entered universities do not know well what their aptitude is. Also, a lot of companies are demanding a “Renaissance man” for their employee.
First of all, if universities offer the students liberal arts or general curricula regardless of their majors, students who have just matriculated universities could find their aptitudes more easily. The pre-college education is only basic, making it difficult for students to experience various experiences through it, and therefore it is impossible for students who enter universities to be sure of their aptitude. Of course, it is needed to cultivate professional talent in special fields such as medical science, pharmacy, and engineering, because it is important for them to understand their field accurately and deeply. However, except for such unusual areas, much of students do not sure what they are interested in and what they are good at. Therefore, it is necessary to have students access to a wide range of fields for universities.
Secondly, modern society demands a versatile person. Therefore, universities needed to make their students be a multi-talented person. Many companies prefer employees who majored humanities but can do computer programming or who are multilingual engineers. These kinds of employees can solve multidimensional problems without help from others. Opponents contend that because much of social problem is getting worse, so it is not resolved that one person is versatile; it is necessary for experts in various fields to cooperate, therefore universities should concentrate on training experts. Environmental problem, for instance, can be managed by not only scientists but also engineers and political scientists. Nonetheless, the problems encountered in the everyday work environment can be dealt with easier by the multi-talented person than who is good at only one field.
To sum up, universities needed to make their students take various courses outside their majors. Offered liberal arts or general curricula, students in universities can find their aptitude easily, and they could be reborn as a proper person to be demanded by society.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, nonetheless, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, except for, for example, for instance, of course, such as, first of all, to sum up

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 33.0505617978 97% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 58.6224719101 85% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2353.0 2235.4752809 105% => OK
No of words: 424.0 442.535393258 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.54952830189 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53775939005 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.1396736307 2.79657885939 112% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.495283018868 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 747.9 704.065955056 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.7474568296 60.3974514979 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.047619048 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1904761905 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.09523809524 5.21951772744 155% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.182219245512 0.243740707755 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0686362823315 0.0831039109588 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0702658001959 0.0758088955206 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131217826738 0.150359130593 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0564075911499 0.0667264976115 85% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.26 48.8420337079 70% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.5 12.1743820225 111% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.91 12.1639044944 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.69 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 100.480337079 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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