Colleges and universities should require all faculty to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach Write a response in which you discuss your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the posit

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Colleges and universities should require all faculty to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach.

Write a response in which you discuss your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider the possible consequences of implementing the policy and explain how these consequences shape your position.

In real world, it is not uncommon to see collaboration between professors and industries, which means some current faculties have already stepped outside of academia and expanded their working to relevant industries. However, I will argue there are both positive and negative effects relating to this statement, which makes me partially agree with it.

First, it can be observed that there are different degrees adoption of academic faculties to work outside of academic world. For example, normally business and management department embrace the most of this type of collaboration, while others, like physics, may be more reserved of the collaboration. Actually it illustrates that this type of expansion of the collaboration brings different levels of benefits according to the nature of the domains. When a domain requires more practical knowledge, they do gain benefit from the collaboration outside of academia. However, a more theory-focused domain generally gain less from the cross-fields collaborations. It explains why the benefit will not be even if we require all the faculty to adopt the collaboration. Therefore, a more suitable approach is to encourage certain domains to adopt the expansion, not all the domains.

Second, the time and resources are always limited, so a potential negative outcome from the expansion of the work outside of the academia is that the faculty may not have enough time to be allocated to the students, which may further reduce the teaching quality. For instance, if a professor needs to spend time to collaborate with private companies as requested, he/she may not be able to dedicate as much time as before to lecture the students. Hence, the students may not learn as much as before. Therefore, it is important to assess the conflict between teaching and the work outside of academia, so that potential sacrifice can be further analyzed to achieve a more reasonable decision.

However, there is still positive change that can be created from introducing the approach. The most obvious one is that the faculty can connect better with the current practices and make their researches more relevant to the real world. For example, it is a common criticize that some academic researches are far from people's daily life, and the concepts can't really benefit the world. One way to resolve this issue is to provide opportunities for the professors to testify their research in the real fields, so that they can further modify their directions to be more practical and effective. This outcome can be achieved if the professors are required to work outside of academia for a certain periods.

In conclusion, there are both positive and negative outcomes from the statement. While the positive result is that by doing so, the academic faculties can produce more practical researches that are beneficial to the public since they get the chance to emerge themselves in the fields they study. The negative parts are that not all domains can benefit the same from the approach, and also this approach may create conflict between the academic work and other work which may lead to a decrease of the teaching quality.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, first, hence, however, if, may, really, second, so, still, therefore, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in general

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2650.0 2235.4752809 119% => OK
No of words: 511.0 442.535393258 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18590998043 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75450408675 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83512952322 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 215.323595506 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.440313111546 0.4932671777 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 854.1 704.065955056 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.0963279568 60.3974514979 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.19047619 118.986275619 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3333333333 23.4991977007 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.90476190476 5.21951772744 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.209658699407 0.243740707755 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0677988609577 0.0831039109588 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0464158906377 0.0758088955206 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127482618174 0.150359130593 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0116310902198 0.0667264976115 17% => 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: 15.2 14.1392134831 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 48.8420337079 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.1639044944 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.66 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 124.0 100.480337079 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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