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.
Even though academic world and industry are interrelated, they are two different worlds and both require different elements to succeed. Some people argue that professors and faculty members should spend time working outside of the academia. I partially disagree with the statement in that requiring all faculty to do so is unreasonable and the role of professor is teaching students and conducting research.
Granted, some faculty should better spend time working in professions relevant to their fields of study to build real-life experience. In fast-changing fields, including computer science and engineering, the development speed of industry sometimes far exceeds that of academic world. Research labs in Microsoft, Facebook, or Google are known to be the leading laboratories in the world, even including the major stem institutes like MIT, Caltech, or others. That is, it is necessary to have real work experience to reflect the cutting-edge research conducted in such leading tech industries. Furthermore, by working in industries, professors can reflect the state-of-the-art technology to students' curriculum and also can offer sincere advises to students who want to build career in industry. From this perspective, I believe that it is beneficial for some faculty members to spend time working outside of acadmia.
Even so, the author's claim that requiring all faculty to work outside is rather irrational; not all faculty members should be working outside because there are many different types of faculty members in colleges and universities. For instances, there are faculty members working in management of school, in research team, advising and consulting team, and many others. In other words, it is a hasty generalization to assume all faculty members are in the same situations. Furthermore, professors are differentiated in many positions, like associate professor, senior professor, lecturer, and etc. Lecturers usually have less experience in research and teaching and yet to receive tenure. It would be onerous to require such lecturers to have working experience in industry, instead of conducting research in schools. Thus, requiring all faculty to spend time working outside of academia is unreasonable.
Finally, the main role of professor is teaching students and conducting research, not working outside the academic world. It is true that real-life experience in leading industry would be beneficial to some extent, but professor should better focus on how to teach students well and how to conduct better research. Professors who spend time working outside fundamentally will spend less time on students and their own research, and this ultimately undermines the universities. Without offering the best education and conducting the most advanced research, how many students would come to universities? Thus, faculty members should not spend too much time working outside the academic world because the role of professor is teaching and doing research.
Industry and academia are strongly connected nowadays, so it is beneficial for academic faculty to have some experience in industry in that they can learn the cutting-edge technology from industry and reflect the newest theories to curriculum. However, that does not mean requring all faculty to work outside the academia because there are many different positions in faculty and the main role of professor is teaching and research. Therefore, colleges and universities can advise some faculty to spend time working outside the academic world but should not require all of them to do so.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Use 'faculty members'.
Suggestion: faculty members
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Suggestion: many
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Suggestion: etc.
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Suggestion:
...of academia is unreasonable. Finally, the main role of professor is teaching s...
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Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
... outside the academia because there are many different positions in faculty and the main role ...
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Message: Use 'faculty members'.
Suggestion: faculty members
...lleges and universities can advise some faculty to spend time working outside the acade...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, furthermore, however, if, so, therefore, thus, well, even so, for instance, in other words, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 29.0 14.8657303371 195% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 33.0505617978 73% => OK
Preposition: 81.0 58.6224719101 138% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3039.0 2235.4752809 136% => OK
No of words: 547.0 442.535393258 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.55575868373 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.83611736076 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95995959228 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 217.0 215.323595506 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.396709323583 0.4932671777 80% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 948.6 704.065955056 135% => 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: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.7863870843 60.3974514979 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.625 118.986275619 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.7916666667 23.4991977007 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.08333333333 5.21951772744 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.83258426966 228% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.296534042725 0.243740707755 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.111899940755 0.0831039109588 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0877077172349 0.0758088955206 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.209424023122 0.150359130593 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0386854902101 0.0667264976115 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 14.1392134831 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.8420337079 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.1743820225 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.26 12.1639044944 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 100.480337079 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 15, Rule ID: SOME_FACULTY[1]
Message: Use 'faculty members'.
Suggestion: faculty members
...d conducting research. Granted, some faculty should better spend time working in pro...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 161, Rule ID: NUMEROUS_DIFFERENT[1]
Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
...ld be working outside because there are many different types of faculty members in colleges an...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 589, Rule ID: AND_ETC[1]
Message: Use simply 'etc.'.
Suggestion: etc.
... professor, senior professor, lecturer, and etc. Lecturers usually have less experience ...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 9, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...of academia is unreasonable. Finally, the main role of professor is teaching s...
^^
Line 9, column 341, Rule ID: NUMEROUS_DIFFERENT[1]
Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
... outside the academia because there are many different positions in faculty and the main role ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 487, Rule ID: SOME_FACULTY[1]
Message: Use 'faculty members'.
Suggestion: faculty members
...lleges and universities can advise some faculty to spend time working outside the acade...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, furthermore, however, if, so, therefore, thus, well, even so, for instance, in other words, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 29.0 14.8657303371 195% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 33.0505617978 73% => OK
Preposition: 81.0 58.6224719101 138% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3039.0 2235.4752809 136% => OK
No of words: 547.0 442.535393258 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.55575868373 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.83611736076 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95995959228 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 217.0 215.323595506 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.396709323583 0.4932671777 80% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 948.6 704.065955056 135% => 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: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.7863870843 60.3974514979 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.625 118.986275619 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.7916666667 23.4991977007 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.08333333333 5.21951772744 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.83258426966 228% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.296534042725 0.243740707755 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.111899940755 0.0831039109588 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0877077172349 0.0758088955206 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.209424023122 0.150359130593 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0386854902101 0.0667264976115 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 14.1392134831 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.8420337079 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.1743820225 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.26 12.1639044944 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 100.480337079 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.