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 the colleges should require students to take variety of courses outsider their core fields is controversial topic. On the one hand, one might say that students in universities should focus on their major field and might claim that demanding diverse courses can hinder student's concentration. However I agree with the statement in that studying other fields can help students intensifying their understand of major. What is more, by taking diverse lectures, students might find what their real talent is.

To begin with, I concede that taking diverse lectures can be onerous to students. A student who is currently majoring cook, for example, might regard taking chemical, biology, math, etc classes as useless and might be reluctant to pay tuition for registering these courses. However, we should recognize that there is no useless knowledge and great innovations come through combining distinct areas. Nowadays, well-known cook, for example, applies their chemical knowledge to their dishes, so called 'Molecular gastronomy', to make their dishes more attractive and make their foods taste better. These dishes achieved huge success as many customers enjoy their attractive appearances and fresh savor. Many artists, for another example, accomplished their masterpieces by using peculiarity of bugs and animals such as glowing at dark environment or changing their body colors which would be impossible if they did not have biological insight. If artists and cooks do not have knowledge of other fields, these dishes and masterpieces may not be extant currently. Likewise, by taking diverse courses, students might create 'great' innovation.

What is more, as society is being more complicated than ever before, there is no field which can stand up solely. Every field is related to at least one other fields. For example, let us consider algorithm: a solution for particular problem in computer science. Evaluating algorithm's expected performance and comparing effectiveness between algorithms require us being proficient at math and probability. Therefore without knowledge of math and probability, one is unlikely to accumulate deep understand of algorithm. Likewise, it is impossible to make a superior machine which has artificial intelligence without know-how in statistics, mechanic, linear algebra, etc. What it means, studying statistics, mechanic and linear algebra intensifies one's understand in artificial intelligence. However students entering the college are unlikely to know the dependency of their majors to other related areas and might register courses only within their major. Therefore universities should require students to take variety of courses and help them fostering their core skills.

Finally, most of the students entering college do not have sufficient experience to choose their major firmly. They are likely to choose their majors without considering what their real talents and interests are. They might choose their majors merely because of its well-prospected future, having too low grade to go other major, parent's recommendation, etc. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 80 percent of students in college change their major. What is more, the students change their major three times on average. By taking lectures of diverse fields, students might have a valuable experience and find their real interests. As I believe that one of the primary role of university is to offer students a diverse experience, I also believe that universities should mandate students to take diverse courses.

In conclusion, even though I concede that demanding students to take diverse courses can be burdensome, I agree with the statement based on above mentioned reason. Taking diverse courses is a boon to students, rather than bane in that it provides an opportunity students to strengthen their major skills and find their real interests.

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Average: 6.6 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, however, if, likewise, may, so, then, therefore, well, at least, 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 : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 52.0 33.0505617978 157% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 67.0 58.6224719101 114% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3309.0 2235.4752809 148% => OK
No of words: 594.0 442.535393258 134% => OK
Chars per words: 5.57070707071 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.93681225224 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84958557825 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 292.0 215.323595506 136% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.491582491582 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 1026.0 704.065955056 146% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.2388840241 60.3974514979 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.3 118.986275619 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8 23.4991977007 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.16666666667 5.21951772744 99% => OK
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: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.317200215251 0.243740707755 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101425928672 0.0831039109588 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.120006190362 0.0758088955206 158% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.220943957623 0.150359130593 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.123250246645 0.0667264976115 185% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.1392134831 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.03 12.1639044944 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.91 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 163.0 100.480337079 162% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => 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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