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 claim regarding university coursework reflects a benevolent intention to provide every student with a well-rounded education. I agree that it is beneficial for a student to have a broad foundation in the arts and sciences, as that is what will most empower him or her in society. However, this claim is most prescient in the case of undergraduate students, who are undergoing university education for the first time. A diverse education provides great benefit to these students, but graduate students, who are approaching their education with narrower goals, may find such diversity unnecessary and burdensome.
For undergraduate students, the claim holds true. Consider an adult who desires to make a career change from literature to engineering. Without a basic foundation in science, the barriers against this new field would be too great. One scholar who has great intellectual breadth is Noam Chomsky, who is a foremost scholar in the diverse fields of linguistics, cognitive science, and political theory. Multifaceted scholars like Chomsky could not develop without a diverse background in the arts and science.
For graduate students, on the other hand, such requirements would pose a wasteful constraints. Those who enter graduate school have often lived in the professional world for years. They have already been exposed to a multitude of fields, and their reasons for entering a university are much narrower and more targeted. What is more, the pursuit of a graduate degree is often funded by one's employer. Employer of a design company, for instance, would certainly be frustrated if he or she sent his/her employee to study graphics and was required to pay for additional courses in chemistry and art history.
The above arguments show that, when the time is right, a multifaceted education is crucial, but later in life, a narrower approach is ideal. Undergraduate students need a diverse foundation in a variety of fields. For graduate students, who have presumably already received this diverse foundation, coursework can be more specialized. The debate over the purpose of university is an old one. However, the multitiered approach to scholarship - one containing successive levels of degrees- may help us find that debate's resolution.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 83, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'constraint'?
Suggestion: constraint
...such requirements would pose a wasteful constraints. Those who enter graduate school have o...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, regarding, so, well, for instance, what is more, on the other hand
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 : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 33.0505617978 64% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 58.6224719101 67% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1911.0 2235.4752809 85% => OK
No of words: 356.0 442.535393258 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.36797752809 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34372677135 4.55969084622 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04660192699 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 215.323595506 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.578651685393 0.4932671777 117% => OK
syllable_count: 597.6 704.065955056 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.2197784846 60.3974514979 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.578947368 118.986275619 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7368421053 23.4991977007 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.05263157895 5.21951772744 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => 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: 0.108995911058 0.243740707755 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0365994339285 0.0831039109588 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0397474318948 0.0758088955206 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0670828556317 0.150359130593 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0278833396252 0.0667264976115 42% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.1392134831 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.87 12.1639044944 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.96 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 100.480337079 100% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 11.8971910112 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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 5, column 83, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'constraint'?
Suggestion: constraint
...such requirements would pose a wasteful constraints. Those who enter graduate school have o...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, regarding, so, well, for instance, what is more, on the other hand
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 : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 33.0505617978 64% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 58.6224719101 67% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1911.0 2235.4752809 85% => OK
No of words: 356.0 442.535393258 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.36797752809 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34372677135 4.55969084622 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04660192699 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 215.323595506 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.578651685393 0.4932671777 117% => OK
syllable_count: 597.6 704.065955056 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.2197784846 60.3974514979 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.578947368 118.986275619 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7368421053 23.4991977007 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.05263157895 5.21951772744 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => 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: 0.108995911058 0.243740707755 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0365994339285 0.0831039109588 44% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0397474318948 0.0758088955206 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0670828556317 0.150359130593 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0278833396252 0.0667264976115 42% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.1392134831 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.87 12.1639044944 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.96 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 100.480337079 100% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 11.8971910112 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.