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 t

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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 University system by design allows individual department or field to administer peculiar courses based on the particular discipline. I mostly, disagree with the author's claim that universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's discipline based on two reasons. However, I do concede that to some minimal degree, certain courses be taken by students based on obvious needs.

first of all, asking students to take variety of courses from different different fields could reduced their overall performance in their respective field Students intelligence quotient differs from individual to another. A student who is presumably verse in mathematics may perform poorly in biology and asking such student to compulsorily take biology may be counterproductive. Task for instance, a medical student is been mandated to take quantum mechanics and advanced calculus. In the firsts scenario, such course may not be germane to his studies as potential physician, and may lead to overall reduced performance where mostly needed.

Furthermore, It may breeds an atmosphere of malfeasance in the part of students. The competition amongst students is usually one that is rigorous, and some students will go extra mile in pursuit of good grade. In some cases, this may result to some students engaging in corrupt academic practices in order to pass these borrowed courses. A good example is financial, and sexual inducement by students whose primary intentions are to pass certain courses in order to promote to the next level. In one of the survey on examination misconduct released by the University of Benin, Nigeria, it was observed that eighty percentage of convicted students interviewed claimed to have engaged in examination malpractice (as last resort) in courses borrowed from other departments or fields. This clearly proves that mandating students to take courses outside their discipline may lead to academic malfeasance.

However, in certain instances such as the promotion of national unity, i do concede that some peculiar courses be mandated on all students to take and this should also not be a way of measuring students overall performance. Take for example, in Nigeria Universities, history, and philosophy of science and technology is often taught to all beginners. This is majorly to educate them about the history of their nation and create a sense of patriotism amongst its youths. In the same way, a physics student may be mandated to take some courses from mathematics as such will benefit the students in his field of study.

In conclusion, a students should not be mandated to take varieties of courses from other field unless in certain instances

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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... by students based on obvious needs. first of all, asking students to take variety...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, however, if, may, so, for example, for instance, in conclusion, of course, such as, first of all, in some cases, in the same way

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 75.0 58.6224719101 128% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2364.0 2235.4752809 106% => OK
No of words: 430.0 442.535393258 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.4976744186 5.05705443957 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55372829156 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92995199838 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.488372093023 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 729.9 704.065955056 104% => 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: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.4163778019 60.3974514979 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.333333333 118.986275619 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8888888889 23.4991977007 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.55555555556 5.21951772744 164% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.294549035871 0.243740707755 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.108026560004 0.0831039109588 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0883340734805 0.0758088955206 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.202091042072 0.150359130593 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0555493253306 0.0667264976115 83% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 14.1392134831 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.8420337079 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.92 12.1639044944 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.26 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 100.480337079 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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