A true university education encompasses far more than the narrow specialized study of a single discipline Only through exploring the broad spectrum of liberal arts courses can students become truly learned

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A true university education encompasses far more than the narrow, specialized study of a single discipline. Only through exploring the broad spectrum of liberal arts courses can students become truly learned.

Nowadays, versatility is preferred almost everywhere, and often versatile people gets the upper hand over specialized people in many scenarios. An undergraduate student need to major in a particular discipline, as well as, also need to possess different skillset to prosper in their later life. But, the topic has raised a controversial issue stating that one student will only be ‘truly’ learned by exploring the spectrum of liberal arts. As the topic suggests, a typical university offers courses in a number of discipline, which might aid in the versatility of the student. Taking compulsory courses in liberal arts might not be good for them, in terms of mental or academic growth. However, for some students, pursuing arts course might open up some other career path to prosper or might help them refresh by changing subjects which they typically read. Thus, I generally disagree with the notion of exploring mandatory arts course, which the topic suggested as the only way to prepare the student an all-rounder.

Universities tend to offer a myriad number of possibilities in terms of subject and course choices. In order to become specialized as well as versatile, a typical undergraduate need to take subjects pertaining to his intended major as well as some other side courses. Let's say, a student specializing in developmental genetics would not likely to take arts as his minor, would likely to take courses which might aid his understanding of the core subject of interest.

Furthermore, if a university offers a course structure with a mandatory liberal arts course, students will likely to avoid enrolling into the particular stream, which might hamper the reputation of the institute. Students will likely avoid getting enrolled, also the enrolled students might not be content with their course structure, which was sort of imposed on them. A student should have their own rights while choosing the subject combination to be specialized, and compulsory courses on liberal arts will not support the idea.

However, in the universities, a student should follow his passion and pursue some other courses for refreshment. The same undergraduate need to blow his steam off by taking some subjects, which he/she might actually are passionate about. Or, the nice change of pace offered by the arts courses might refresh and rejuvenate the pupil up before undergoing the tedious assignments in his field of major.

To sum it up, although the courses in liberal arts might offer some sort of relaxation or freshness to some extent to students needing change from their usual set of subject choices, taking courses in arts shouldn't be a part of the mandatory course structure. Taking arts courses are not the only way to be 'truly' learned. In this era of versatility, students should be disciplined as well as need to be versatile enough to perform in several platform, but unwilling students studying mandatory courses in arts might be regressive for the betterment of the students, as well as for the institution.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, furthermore, however, if, so, thus, well, while, sort of, as well as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 25.0 12.4196629213 201% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 33.0505617978 61% => OK
Preposition: 73.0 58.6224719101 125% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2550.0 2235.4752809 114% => OK
No of words: 493.0 442.535393258 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1724137931 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71206996034 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90760160719 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 215.323595506 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.464503042596 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 790.2 704.065955056 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 6.24550561798 16% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.8245119842 60.3974514979 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.210526316 118.986275619 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.9473684211 23.4991977007 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.68421052632 5.21951772744 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.215662094054 0.243740707755 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0846691801405 0.0831039109588 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.050497556773 0.0758088955206 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130610906819 0.150359130593 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0495733489322 0.0667264976115 74% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 14.1392134831 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.38706741573 100% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 100.480337079 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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