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 choice of courses in a university is not a trivial one. It is the first decision he or she must take before entering a university. The prompt suggests that universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student’s field of study. In my opinion, I mostly disagree with this and argue that students must have the free will to choose whatever courses that they intend to pursue, either outside the field of study or inside for two reasons.
To begin, having courses that aren’t congruous with the field of study may lead to digression. The student spends his time learning things that might not materialise in the future.
For example, a student who is pursuing his masters in mechanical engineering, when he takes cooking as a course. The course will not materialise for his future in mechanical engineering. Although, one can argue that cooking can help him be independent. But that does not help him understand the concepts in mechanical engineering better. The above example explaining that courses that aren’t relevant to the courses will not help in augmenting the understanding of primary courses.
Further, when students are obligated to take up courses outside their field, students are predisposed to choose subjects that are easy and not which are most likely helpful to them in the future. For example, when a university has nuclear engineering as its main course. Most of the students who are forced to take courses apart from it tend to take arts, social etc. Because the course is relatively easy and they need not spend more time in studying these subjects. This might sound like a good thing but misses the point that they aren’t actively learning and are studying it just for the sake of studying.
Of course, when a student can have multiple interests and this can make his degree much interesting and fun for learning. But this argument need not be the case every time.
The university, in my opinion, should give students the leeway of choosing courses. The university must promote elective subjects, where these do not carry the same weight as the other courses in the field and the student can choose a course in or outside his field.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 187, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Although” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, may, so, apart from, for example, of course, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 58.6224719101 77% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 12.9106741573 8% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1844.0 2235.4752809 82% => OK
No of words: 374.0 442.535393258 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.93048128342 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3976220399 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59632277132 2.79657885939 93% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 215.323595506 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.478609625668 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 567.9 704.065955056 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.3804855764 60.3974514979 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.2 118.986275619 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7 23.4991977007 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.5 5.21951772744 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => 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: 0.28443322625 0.243740707755 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0907373243484 0.0831039109588 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0873962441675 0.0758088955206 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156799143418 0.150359130593 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.082700371867 0.0667264976115 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 14.1392134831 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.8420337079 126% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.31 12.1639044944 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.44 8.38706741573 89% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 100.480337079 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => 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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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