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.

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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.

Universities are the best sources of education for students. It is when people from varied backgrounds come together and share their ideas, they tend to broaden their perspectives. Usually universities allow students to choose their intended choice of subjects but in some universities, apart from the electives, there are a few subjects which are mandated and must be availed by all students. The debate of whether this system is beneficial for the students or a distraction is still ongoing.

Consider most of the engineering institutes in India. Every student in their first year of course needs to take subjects pertaining to other departments as well. For instance, a computer science undergrad has to go through rudimentary courses on mechanics and civil structures as well as chemicals and electronics. Even though these are not related to the curriculum that the student is going to follow for the rest of the course, giving a basic idea about all the fields helps the student to identify and nurture their interests. A huge proportion of students in India make a significant shift in their fields from undergrad to postgrad. This is because of unawareness about available opportunities and fields that an individual could follow, in countries like India. The courses in postgrad then get more concentrated towards the chosen fields. This hierarchy of generalisation to specialisation has been incorporated in the educational system, not only in countries like India, but almost whole of the world.

It is a well-known posit that universities might just prepare us for the outside world, but the situations faced in the outside world are much more varied than those taught in the universities. There are fields like machine learning and artificial intelligence which are applicable to a lot of different areas ranging from neurology to machine automation to video/audio analysis. Working in projects like the ones mentioned, requires more domain knowledge to understand the problem better, to be able to come up with efficient solutions. If taken some basic courses in universities outside of major field of study, it makes the student capable of grasping the new information about various fields, in future if the situation demands. Also, that will make an individual more aware about the world and thus will be able to come up with solutions to tackle world problems using his chosen field of major.

Lastly, even though the claim and corresponding reason have some wisdom, but the proportion of subjects of the chosen major available to the students must be high. It shouldn’t be the case that the students get distracted by secondary subjects and lose focus in their primary field of major.

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Average: 6.6 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 887, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to field'
Suggestion: to field
... tackle world problems using his chosen field of major. Lastly, even though the ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, lastly, second, so, still, then, thus, well, apart from, as to, for instance, of course, as well as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 33.0505617978 73% => OK
Preposition: 76.0 58.6224719101 130% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2288.0 2235.4752809 102% => OK
No of words: 438.0 442.535393258 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22374429224 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57476223824 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92893900964 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 232.0 215.323595506 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.529680365297 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 711.9 704.065955056 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.7506798258 60.3974514979 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.421052632 118.986275619 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0526315789 23.4991977007 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.36842105263 5.21951772744 122% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.224250032039 0.243740707755 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0674547634901 0.0831039109588 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.058205013239 0.0758088955206 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132219594296 0.150359130593 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0277526670418 0.0667264976115 42% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.1392134831 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.1639044944 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.03 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 100.480337079 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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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