Essay topic 11: 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.
Education plays a vital role in individuals’ life. People pursue academic degrees to be specialized in a particular major and become professionals. Some argue that universities need to make students take courses outside of their field of study. I do not concur with this issue as students need to concentrate diligently on their specialized field of study without being distracted by irrelevant course.
To begin with, the educational universities are designed to make students experts in a particular field. Students attend universities to gain better insight of a specific major to pursue their professional goals in almost four years. Thus, taking various courses outside of their field of study is waste of time and an impediment to achieve the goal of being an expert. For instance, if the computer science graduate students are required to take other courses like English Literature and Social Sciences, they will not only fulfill their goals to be professionals but also be frustrated as they find universities useless.
In addition, schools offer a plethora of subjects which aid to provide a better sense of knowledge. Therefore, if the universities follow the same educational system, they will be more like general high schools that is not the main purpose of universities. Universities can offer additional optional courses to provide an opportunity to educate avid students to learn about other interdisciplinary course without hindering them to accomplish their goal of being an expert in a specific field.
In contrast, some argue that advances in some disciplines require knowledge from various fields to ensure that all students obtain a complete education which can enhance their progress in their major. For instance, art and design students should take courses in designing software to make their designing knowledge practical. Knowledge of Literature, cultural background and foreign language can also inspire them to improve their advertising dexterity and interactive skill to connect international professionals.
To conclude, the policy of taking various courses outside of one’s field will waste student’s time and take any possibilities of attaining better in a field of study. However, some disciplines such as art and designing benefit from studying diverse courses.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, so, therefore, thus, for instance, in addition, in contrast, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.5258426966 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 33.0505617978 64% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1977.0 2235.4752809 88% => OK
No of words: 354.0 442.535393258 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.58474576271 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33761313653 4.55969084622 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.1174732204 2.79657885939 111% => OK
Unique words: 184.0 215.323595506 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.519774011299 0.4932671777 105% => OK
syllable_count: 624.6 704.065955056 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.2370786517 79% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.7066322138 60.3974514979 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.5625 118.986275619 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.125 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.6875 5.21951772744 128% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => 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: 0.217229962987 0.243740707755 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0813138362575 0.0831039109588 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0686430576289 0.0758088955206 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.134770906065 0.150359130593 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0242369075704 0.0667264976115 36% => 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: 15.9 14.1392134831 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 32.22 48.8420337079 66% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.08 12.1639044944 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.01 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 100.480337079 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => 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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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