Some people believe that universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study. Others believe that universities should not force students to take any courses other than those that will help prepare them for jobs in their chosen fields.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.
Education is a means of edifying a person. It can be undertaken in various forms; a common approach is studying at an institution of higher of learning such as a university. In selecting courses to study at a university, I mostly support with the proposition that students should be made to take several other courses apart from courses in their specific discipline. I support this view based on two reasons, although I concede that there could be situations were it is advantageous to confine the selection of courses to just the student's field of study.
First of all, making students do a plethora of courses exposures them to other methods, perspectives, thoughts and viewpoints which enhances the overall learning experience. For example, a student majoring in chemical engineering should not have his/her studies limited only to engineeering coursework. Rather, other courses such as business courses should be included in the curriculla. This would enable the student relate his or her training as an engineer to it's impact or relationship with businesses considering that engineering hardly exists in isolation from other disciplines in daily life. An engineer could work in a firm as an employee or set-up a venture as an entrepreneur and hence a fundamental appreciation of enterprise is valuable. Another example is the taking of language courses by a student majoring in mathematics. This enables the person understand and appreciate other cultures, beliefs and perspectives which, in turn, enhances interaction with other people and integration into other climes. Afterall, it is possible that when the student graduates from school, the additional language or languages learnt can help him or her secure a desired job as a mathematician in a foreign country. Thus, the requirement that students take extra courses during their studies does serve to enhance their education and prepare them for the future.
Secondly, it affords students the opportunity to reconfirm their interest in their selected field of study vis-a-vis other disciplines. It is not uncommon for a student to initially start undergraduate studies in a certain area, for instance statistics, but later change to another discipline such a policial science because taking other requisite courses outside the scope of statistics enabled the student clarify his or her preferences and abilities. In essence, the student discovered himself or herself whilst doing those extra courses and from thence made a better informed decision on the field of study to pursue. This would likely optimize the student's academic performance and lead to a more fulfilling career.
However, it maybe necessary to restrict the selection of courses to the student's field of study in cases where the area of study is extremely demanding, highly specialized and very expensive such that the studies are funded by an external party such as government or other organizations for specific aims. Thus, focusing on the courses in the specific field of study would be prudent for judicious use of the funds and the dedication of time and effort to that particular field in order to acheive the desired objectives. Another situation could be in certain situations when the resources of an educational institution are limited. These resources include the adequate manpower or personnel to take the various combinations of courses or facilities to accomodate such learning demands especially in institutions with high student population. Nevertheless, the above cases or situations are not expected to be common and hence I mostly align with the stance that students should be mandated to take courses beyond their field of study.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: After all
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Suggestion:
...e and lead to a more fulfilling career. However, it maybe necessary to restrict ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, then, thus, apart from, for example, for instance, of course, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 25.0 14.8657303371 168% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 33.0505617978 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 84.0 58.6224719101 143% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 12.9106741573 170% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3106.0 2235.4752809 139% => OK
No of words: 582.0 442.535393258 132% => OK
Chars per words: 5.33676975945 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.91168771031 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98271889237 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 282.0 215.323595506 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.484536082474 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 989.1 704.065955056 140% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.5888458502 60.3974514979 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.181818182 118.986275619 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.4545454545 23.4991977007 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.09090909091 5.21951772744 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.377528107571 0.243740707755 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.121638912842 0.0831039109588 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.076431608579 0.0758088955206 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.256875343469 0.150359130593 171% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0348910667531 0.0667264976115 52% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.9 14.1392134831 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 48.8420337079 75% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.99 12.1639044944 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.35 8.38706741573 111% => OK
difficult_words: 163.0 100.480337079 162% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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