Claim: Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's major field of study.
Reason: Acquiring knowledge of various academic disciplines is the best way to become truly educated.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
It is argued that universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student’s major field of study because acquiring knowledge of various academic disciplines is the best way to become truly educated. I disagree with this claim because the courses are not correlated to a student’s major and they will not be interested in these courses.
Firstly, courses that are outside of a student’s major is uncorrelated to their major courses. This could be a hindrance to a student’s education because they would not have a strong and basic foundation. For example, if a student is a mathematics major they specialize in have honed in on their math skills. If the student takes a physiology class, they would not understand the basic human processes, resulting in a negative effect on their grade for that class. Another example is if a student is English major taking a music class. The two subjects do not correlate with each other. As an English major, there would be no need to have knowledge of music.
Furthermore, students will be uninterested in courses that are outside of their major field of study. Speaking from my own experience, when I was taking courses outside of my major, I was not interested in those courses. If I had exams coming up, I would skip those classes to focus on my major courses. Another reason why it would be harmful for a student to take courses outside of their major courses is that it would be hard to focus. For example, when a person is uninterested in a topic, they tend to zone out and missing important points of the course.
The claim does have some merritt. Taking courses outside a student’s major field of study could diverse their knowledge and can he used in their major courses. For example, taking English courses can help a laboratory course. For example, when I took Exercise Physiology for my major, I had to write multiple lab reports. Since I took English courses my first two years of my undergraduate career, I had a strong foundation in writing and helped me when I wrote these reports.
People argue that universities should require their students to take courses outside of their field of study; however, I disagree with this claim. I believe that taking courses outside of their major would hinder their education because the course do not correlate to their major and the students would be uninterested in those courses.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, so, for example, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 14.8657303371 40% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 55.0 33.0505617978 166% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 56.0 58.6224719101 96% => 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: 2042.0 2235.4752809 91% => OK
No of words: 414.0 442.535393258 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.93236714976 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51076378781 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80600341431 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 215.323595506 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.393719806763 0.4932671777 80% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 640.8 704.065955056 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 3.10617977528 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.5355300341 60.3974514979 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.2380952381 118.986275619 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7142857143 23.4991977007 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.2380952381 5.21951772744 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 10.2758426966 29% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.353880305614 0.243740707755 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.129345498931 0.0831039109588 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.145333832898 0.0758088955206 192% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.254210335629 0.150359130593 169% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.145133082215 0.0667264976115 218% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.6 14.1392134831 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.8420337079 124% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.31 12.1639044944 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.21 8.38706741573 86% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 100.480337079 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 11.8971910112 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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