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 universities should require students to take a variety of courses including outside their core field is controversial. On the one hand, one might say university's primary role is to make students concentrate on their core study and claims that demanding diverse courses can hinder their focus. However, I agree with the statement in that studying distinct field can help students intensifying their core area and diverse courses can provide students an opportunity to find their real interests.

To begin with, I concede that taking a variety courses can be burdensome for students. Students who are currently majoring cook, for example, may regard taking chemical, biology lectures as useless and may be reluctant to pay tuition for registering these lectures. However, nowadays, a number of creative innovations come through combining distinct fields. Well-known cook, for example, applies their chemical knowledge, so called 'molecular gastronomy', to their dishes to make their cook more attractive and taste better. Customers enjoy the fresh savor and attractive appearance of those dishes. Many artists, for another example, accomplish their masterpieces by using bug's character such as glowing at dark environment, changing their body color, etc. If cooks and artists do not have insight of other areas, those dishes and masterpieces may not be extant.

What is more, as society is being more complicated than ever before, there is no field which can stand up solely. Every field is dependent to any others and requires us accumulating knowledge of other areas. For example, consider the algorithm: a solution for particular problem in computer science. Evaluating the performance of specific algorithm and comparing efficiency between algorithms needs proficient skills of math and probability. Without knowledge of math and probability, one could not intensify his/her understand in algorithm. Likewise, to make a well-performed machine which has artificial intelligence, one should study mechanic, statistics, linear algebra, etc. However students entering college are unlikely to know the dependency between their majors and related fields and may take courses only within their major courses. They may consider taking math and linear algebra lectures as useless and boring. Therefore colleges and universities should require students to take a variety of courses and help students fostering their understand of core fields.

Finally, most of students entering colleges do not have sufficient experience to choose their core study firmly. They are likely to choose their majors without considering their talents and interests. They might choose majors merely because of its well-prospected future, safe jobs or parent's recommendation, etc. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 80 percent of students in college change their majors. What is more, students change their majors three times on average. By requiring students to register diverse courses, the university can provide students a valuable experience and an opportunity to find their real talents or interests.

In conclusion I admit that taking a variety of courses can be burdensome for students. However I firmly believe that primary role of colleges is offering students a broaden curriculum which can intensify their major skills and providing students a sufficient experience to find their talents. Therefore I agree with the statement.

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Average: 8.3 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Whether universities should require students to...
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...cient experience to find their talents. Therefore I agree with the statement.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, however, if, likewise, may, so, therefore, well, for example, in conclusion, of course, such as, to begin with, what is more

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.4196629213 153% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 41.0 33.0505617978 124% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 56.0 58.6224719101 96% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2931.0 2235.4752809 131% => OK
No of words: 519.0 442.535393258 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.64739884393 5.05705443957 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7730044521 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89464907147 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 263.0 215.323595506 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.506743737958 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 913.5 704.065955056 130% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => 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: 41.8383063418 60.3974514979 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.678571429 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5357142857 23.4991977007 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.75 5.21951772744 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.345638971606 0.243740707755 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.102498712661 0.0831039109588 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.136076505308 0.0758088955206 179% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.223312617251 0.150359130593 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.115980629909 0.0667264976115 174% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 14.1392134831 103% => 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: 15.49 12.1639044944 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.34 8.38706741573 111% => OK
difficult_words: 158.0 100.480337079 157% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => 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: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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