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.
Learning is not only about what is being taught in schools and colleges. One should try to acquire knowledge from any source. Knowledge is eternal and is omnipresent. Acquiring knowledge should always be one of the student’s inborn skills. Many educational institutions often implement this ideology by allowing its students to study and learn from outside the syllabus. I would like to respectfully support the argument stated above.
Firstly, different students have different abilities and talents. It is not possible to accommodate each and every student’s subject or course choices, which they may find suitable, when considering the whole class as one. Thus, each and all educational institutions have a solid syllabus that is followed. However, institutions are often flexible in allowing students to take up those courses which are or couldn’t be included in the syllabus. Everything is not possible to be taught in schools or colleges. Students must involve themselves with those areas or courses which aren’t taught to them. For example, some students may find an interest in learning languages which may not always be feasible to be a part of curriculum, thus allowing students to sign up for language courses outside the syllabus can help the interested students.
Secondly, sometimes the universities may often lack certain faculty members or the appropriate resources for teaching any particular course. For example, theoretical explanations of certain concepts in the engineering may be possible but not always their practical implementation. In such cases, the universities can provide them with the financial support or sign them up for online courses, that can help the students to build projects to have or explore the practical applications of the concepts. Thus, introducing to subjects outside their syllabus or the extension of the syllabus topics is justified.
Thirdly, sometimes students may find difficulty in understanding certain topics. Universities can offer students external help by providing certain specialized courses which may tend to give a broad explanation on the same. For example, universities may often find explaining all the topics in a particular subject say Computer science, not feasible, considering the length and depth of the topics. They can help students to enroll in online teaching platforms like Udemy and Coursera for in depth explanation of the topics. Such platforms also provide students a certificate on completion, which may motivate the students to take up further courses.
However, one can even look up from the other side of the argument in a way that often taking up extra courses in addition to the strict syllabus may often tend to burden the students. It may so happen those students may feel lost, after a certain point of time, when burdened with lots of courses and this can lead to negative effects on the students. However, I would like to be adamant with my point of view in supporting the argument that universities should offer students to enroll in courses outside their curriculum.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, thus, for example, in addition, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 25.0 12.4196629213 201% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 33.0505617978 73% => OK
Preposition: 75.0 58.6224719101 128% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2598.0 2235.4752809 116% => OK
No of words: 486.0 442.535393258 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.34567901235 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69525374022 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92347660153 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 214.0 215.323595506 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.440329218107 0.4932671777 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 794.7 704.065955056 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 52.1542941664 60.3974514979 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.92 118.986275619 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.44 23.4991977007 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.2 5.21951772744 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => 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: 0.244014319532 0.243740707755 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0780912371358 0.0831039109588 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0618102649787 0.0758088955206 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148155933677 0.150359130593 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0510773780294 0.0667264976115 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.1392134831 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.75 12.1639044944 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.02 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 100.480337079 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.0 11.8971910112 50% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => 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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