Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study
Colleges offer lots of intriguing courses to students. This will raise the question of if universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student’s field of study. I agree that universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student’s field of study.
First of all, students can combine the skills of their original field with other territories, such as software engineering combining with finance. Take me previous experience as an example. When I was an undergraduate, I majored in computer science at the National Taiwan University. I learned lots of professional knowledge, such as data structure and algorithm, which were foundation knowledge in computer science. However, I thought that these courses couldn’t satisfy me because I wanted to engage in finance industry in the future. Therefore, I chose to attend some financial courses held by department of finance, such as the principle of economics, from which I could gain a good deal of practical knowledge. Besides, I participated in many economically related projects from these courses, such as stock-related phone application, in which users could search for lots of instant information about certain company. By contrast, if I had only studied computer science courses, I might have not been able to obtain this financial knowledge.
Second, students can broaden their vision through take a variety of courses outside the student’s field of study. For example, when I was an undergraduate, I once attended many different territories of courses, such as the rise and fall of the British Empire. In this class, professor divided students into many groups and required us to discuss and generate a detailed report about this period. To achieve this goal, I and my teammates spent lots of time to research many different papers and exchange our thoughts. One of my teammates was from the United Kingdom, therefore, he could provide us with most detailed information, such as colonies changes in Victoria period, which directly affected the country power of the British Empire. Furthermore, we could also understand many intriguing cultures being inherited from the period of the Great British Empire, such as “The Commonwealth Games”. With his help, we could accomplish this project in time. As a result, we could extend our vision and acquire lots of interesting knowledge which couldn’t be obtained from computer science courses. In contrast, if I hadn’t chosen to attend this course, I might have not been capable of understanding these abundant historical facts about the Great British Empire.
Some opponents may argue that their lives are filled with works or studies, and they don’t have spare time to participating in these courses outside their professional fields. However, many colleges will offer a good deal of these courses with low burdens. Student will only need to finish some simple projects or reports instead of taking some exams. Courses which are related to politics or history only requires students to share their ideas in the class and will not place heavy burdens on students. Therefore, colleges should encourage students to learn some knowledge outside their professional fields.
To sum up, I agree with the statement that universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study. On one hand, students can combine the skills of their original field with other territories. On the other hand, students can broaden their vision through take a variety of courses outside the student’s field of study.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 173, Rule ID: NUMEROUS_DIFFERENT[1]
Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
...I was an undergraduate, I once attended many different territories of courses, such as the ris...
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Line 5, column 469, Rule ID: NUMEROUS_DIFFERENT[1]
Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
...eammates spent lots of time to research many different papers and exchange our thoughts. One o...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, first, furthermore, however, if, may, second, so, therefore, for example, in contrast, of course, such as, as a result, first of all, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.5258426966 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 12.4196629213 177% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 55.0 33.0505617978 166% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 92.0 58.6224719101 157% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3064.0 2235.4752809 137% => OK
No of words: 577.0 442.535393258 130% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31022530329 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.90110439584 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82012856813 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 255.0 215.323595506 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.441941074523 0.4932671777 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 937.8 704.065955056 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 6.24550561798 256% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 0.0 4.99550561798 0% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.9101778832 60.3974514979 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.428571429 118.986275619 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6071428571 23.4991977007 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.32142857143 5.21951772744 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.443325707746 0.243740707755 182% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.148727300202 0.0831039109588 179% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.230130872619 0.0758088955206 304% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.349996034952 0.150359130593 233% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.268934591548 0.0667264976115 403% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.1639044944 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.1 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 127.0 100.480337079 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 173, Rule ID: NUMEROUS_DIFFERENT[1]
Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
...I was an undergraduate, I once attended many different territories of courses, such as the ris...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 469, Rule ID: NUMEROUS_DIFFERENT[1]
Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
...eammates spent lots of time to research many different papers and exchange our thoughts. One o...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, first, furthermore, however, if, may, second, so, therefore, for example, in contrast, of course, such as, as a result, first of all, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.5258426966 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 12.4196629213 177% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 55.0 33.0505617978 166% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 92.0 58.6224719101 157% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3064.0 2235.4752809 137% => OK
No of words: 577.0 442.535393258 130% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31022530329 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.90110439584 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82012856813 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 255.0 215.323595506 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.441941074523 0.4932671777 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 937.8 704.065955056 133% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 6.24550561798 256% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 0.0 4.99550561798 0% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.9101778832 60.3974514979 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.428571429 118.986275619 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.6071428571 23.4991977007 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.32142857143 5.21951772744 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.2758426966 156% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.443325707746 0.243740707755 182% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.148727300202 0.0831039109588 179% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.230130872619 0.0758088955206 304% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.349996034952 0.150359130593 233% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.268934591548 0.0667264976115 403% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.1639044944 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.1 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 127.0 100.480337079 126% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.