The universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student s field of study

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The universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study.

Whether university should require students to take a variety of courses outside their major fields or not is controversial topic. On the one hand, people argues that students in college should focus in their major fields and demanding them to take diverse courses can hinder their concentration on core study. However I agree with the statement in that studying other fields can help students intensifying their understand of major and diverse courses can provide students an opportunity to find their real talent.

To begin with, I concede to the claim that one of the primary role of students is to study their core fields. I also concede that students may regard taking diverse courses as burdensome. Students who is currently majoring cook, for example, may regard registering biology, chemical, math classes as helpless and useless. However, as society is being more complex than before, innovations sometimes come through combining distinct fields. For example, well-known cooks nowadays apply their chemical knowledge to their dishes, so called "molecular gastronomy", to decorate their foods more attractive and make their taste better. These trials make huge success and many customers enjoy its fresh savor and attractive appearance. Likewise, many famous artists accomplished master pieces by using bugs and animals. Without superior biological knowledge, it may be impossible for those artists to complete their master pieces. Without those, there are many creative fields which require knowledge of diverse fields and taking variety of courses might inspire students.

What is more, there is no field which is independent to any others. As I mentioned before, society nowadays is being more complicated than ever before. There is no field which can stand solely and therefore, it is unlikely for students to understand their major fully without any knowledge of other related area. For example, consider algorithm: a solution for specific problem in Computer Science. Evaluating the algorithm's expected performance and comparing performance between algorithms requires us being proficient at math and probability. Likewise, statistics and mechanical insights are demanded to make a machine which has artificial intelligence. It is unlikely that students who enter colleges recognize the reality of complicated society and take related courses. They may take courses only within their majors for their sake and convenience. Therefore universities should demand students to register diverse courses and help students accumulating knowledge in related areas.

Finally, we should also consider that students entering college do not have sufficient experience to find their real talents and one major role of university is to provide them large experience to find their talents. According to the NCES(National Center for Education Statistics) 80% of students in college change their majors. What is more, college students change their major three times on average. Taking diverse courses can provide students valuable experiences and provide them to find their real interests and change their majors.

In conclusion, I concede that taking diverse courses can be burdensome to students. However I also believe that there is no useless knowledge and course. It will be benefit rather than bane for students to take variety of courses including outside their core study based on above mentioned reasons.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, however, if, likewise, may, so, therefore, well, for example, in conclusion, of course, to begin with, what is more

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 49.0 33.0505617978 148% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 58.0 58.6224719101 99% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2909.0 2235.4752809 130% => OK
No of words: 520.0 442.535393258 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.59423076923 5.05705443957 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77530192783 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78177646935 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 248.0 215.323595506 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.476923076923 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 916.2 704.065955056 130% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 0.0 4.99550561798 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.1194594928 60.3974514979 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.892857143 118.986275619 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5714285714 23.4991977007 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.64285714286 5.21951772744 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => 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: 0.354312476771 0.243740707755 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.113226848729 0.0831039109588 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.127678801735 0.0758088955206 168% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.244692987194 0.150359130593 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0940283091909 0.0667264976115 141% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.28 48.8420337079 74% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.14 12.1639044944 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.87 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 143.0 100.480337079 142% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => 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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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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