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.
Students often find themselves in a dilemma as to what are courses that they should choose that would help them shape their careers. Picking courses at universities that bear no effect on the career of a student can have detrimental consequences on the overall knowledge gained by a student. The prompt suggests that universities should require students to take a variety of courses outside a students’ field of study. I object this statement on the grounds that a student would waste valuable time in gaining knowledge that will not prove to be beneficial for him in the future. The reasons for my opposition to the above statement are listed in the paragraphs below.
It is often noticed that students tend to have a predilection towards learning everything and grasping as much knowledge as possible. They tend to have an affinity to be called the "Jack of All Trades". Universities tend to further this feeling by introducing students to various courses outside their field of study. But these universities do not pay heed towards the fact that in doing so, they are depriving these students of valuable knowledge in a student's field of study. For example, a student with a high-level knowledge of a coding language would be preferred for a job over a student who has superficial knowledge about all the coding languages prevalent in the industry right now. Companies now a days are hiring individuals who tend to specialists than those who are generalists. This would mean that requiring students to take up courses other than their own field of study would inhibit these kids from gaining specialized knowledge in their own field of study.
Universities are not adept at predicting the courses that best suit the needs of a student. a university could introduce a few courses for the student to take. But if the course is not under the student's field of study, there could be resentment on the student's side. If a student is interested in studying literature. He or she should be allowed to take up courses related to literature. It would not be a wise decision to compel a student to take other courses like maths or science. It is true that it will increase the knowledge of a person. But this knowledge proves no purpose for the student in his or her life. For them it would be extraneous information, and they will become agitated due to the shift away from their preferred field of study.
Proponents of the above statement would contradict the above points by stating that a student can search for himself, the area of study that interests him. this could be done only if universities expose these kids to a variety of courses. I would partially agree with such a statement that students should be allowed to carve their own path to lead forward. but introducing them to new courses would simple mean wasting precious time. There are counselors at colleges, and they can better help understand the area of interest for the student and guide them towards picking the requisite courses. Therefore, introducing student to a variety of courses; for them to realize their area of interest is not a feasible option.
In sum, I am a strong advocate of the point that universities should refrain from requiring the students to take up a variety of courses outside there are of interest. This would only lead to the student gaining superficial knowledge about an area of study rather than detailed and thorough knowledge.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, so, therefore, as to, for example, of course, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 25.0 12.4196629213 201% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.3162921348 159% => OK
Pronoun: 60.0 33.0505617978 182% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 90.0 58.6224719101 154% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2866.0 2235.4752809 128% => OK
No of words: 585.0 442.535393258 132% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89914529915 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.9180050066 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76698019764 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 236.0 215.323595506 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.403418803419 0.4932671777 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 890.1 704.065955056 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.3941048901 60.3974514979 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.8275862069 118.986275619 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1724137931 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.24137931034 5.21951772744 43% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.282566477182 0.243740707755 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103269869867 0.0831039109588 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0784934562128 0.0758088955206 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.203640623527 0.150359130593 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0397300410876 0.0667264976115 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.7 14.1392134831 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.8420337079 122% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.14 12.1639044944 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.57 8.38706741573 90% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 100.480337079 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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