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 the

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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.

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Average: 6.1 (4 votes)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
Whether to take various courses outside ...
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Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Whether” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
Whether to take various courses outside the stu...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... well-equipped for jobs and society. The primary reason for my agreement with...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
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...imately their societal contribution. Admittedly, I concede that mastery of th...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...risk defeating a key educational goal. In sum, in pursuit of universi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, look, may, so, thus, well, while, as to, 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: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 89.0 58.6224719101 152% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3363.0 2235.4752809 150% => OK
No of words: 607.0 442.535393258 137% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.54036243822 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.96360453597 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.16324134762 2.79657885939 113% => OK
Unique words: 277.0 215.323595506 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.456342668863 0.4932671777 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1059.3 704.065955056 150% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.04100864 60.3974514979 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.1 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2333333333 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.1 5.21951772744 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => 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: 17.0 4.83258426966 352% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.388297944022 0.243740707755 159% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107174232996 0.0831039109588 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0954660054857 0.0758088955206 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.254137976104 0.150359130593 169% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0350165419313 0.0667264976115 52% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.8420337079 87% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.85 12.1639044944 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 153.0 100.480337079 152% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => 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 1, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
Whether to take various courses outside ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Whether” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
Whether to take various courses outside the stu...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... well-equipped for jobs and society. The primary reason for my agreement with...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...imately their societal contribution. Admittedly, I concede that mastery of th...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 8, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...risk defeating a key educational goal. In sum, in pursuit of universi...
^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, look, may, so, thus, well, while, as to, 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: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 89.0 58.6224719101 152% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3363.0 2235.4752809 150% => OK
No of words: 607.0 442.535393258 137% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.54036243822 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.96360453597 4.55969084622 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.16324134762 2.79657885939 113% => OK
Unique words: 277.0 215.323595506 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.456342668863 0.4932671777 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1059.3 704.065955056 150% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.04100864 60.3974514979 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.1 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2333333333 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.1 5.21951772744 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => 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: 17.0 4.83258426966 352% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.388297944022 0.243740707755 159% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107174232996 0.0831039109588 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0954660054857 0.0758088955206 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.254137976104 0.150359130593 169% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0350165419313 0.0667264976115 52% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.8420337079 87% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.85 12.1639044944 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 153.0 100.480337079 152% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => 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.