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.
The author suggests that students should not only focus on their majors, and thus, the schools should require them to take courses outside their fields. Although I agree that taking some courses of other professions is vital and necessary, I think the total number of required credits should not be so overwhelm that put pressure on students.
I think one advantage of taking a variety of courses is that it can broaden students' horizon. If they only focus on their profession, their perspectives about the world could be quite narrow. On the contrary, learning new knowledge can make students have the ability to deal with problems with different approaches. For example, by taking a programming course, a economy-major student can have the ability to deal with real world problems with the help of computer and can therefore have more accurate analysis.
The other important reason that I agree with the claim is that many students are probably still confused about their future. They haven't decided what to do when they graduate from the universities. Therefore, taking various courses of different fields could effectively help them to realize what they are really interested in. For example, students in Taiwan may be forced by their parents to study in the department of electrical engineering which they don't have interest in when they have no idea what to study. By taking a variety of courses, they can discover that what they are really interested in could be fields such as economy or managing.
Although I do agree that taking courses outside students' field of study should be a requirement, I don't think that the more the courses required, the better students will be. Since one of the main purpose of college education is to cultivate professional abilities, the requirement should not put too much pressure on students, making them lack of time to study on what they should mainly focus on.
The others disapprove with the claim may argue that even if universities don't require them to do so, students will also take the courses of other professions; therefore, schools should not put those restrictions in order to give students freedom to choose courses. However, I don't believe that students will spontaneously take a variety of courses if not required because of the instinct laziness. There is no motivation for students to spend time on studying rather than hanging out with their friends.
I think that a certain degree of requirement for students to study a variety of courses is necessary. However, the exact number of credits needed should not be overwhelm, and thus, should be adjustable according to different scenarios.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, really, so, still, therefore, thus, for example, i think, of course, such as, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 12.4196629213 177% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 14.8657303371 34% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 33.0505617978 127% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 64.0 58.6224719101 109% => 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: 2225.0 2235.4752809 100% => OK
No of words: 438.0 442.535393258 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0799086758 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57476223824 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69808248389 2.79657885939 96% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 215.323595506 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.447488584475 0.4932671777 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 679.5 704.065955056 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.7399562303 60.3974514979 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.611111111 118.986275619 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3333333333 23.4991977007 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5 5.21951772744 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 7.80617977528 90% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.321425989066 0.243740707755 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.118735615905 0.0831039109588 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.068338142183 0.0758088955206 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.191939581912 0.150359130593 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0404173030419 0.0667264976115 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.1392134831 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 12.1639044944 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.04 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 100.480337079 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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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