Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study.

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Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study.

As the uncertainty of society increases, some people argue that universities enforce their students to take courses outside the student's field of study. This recommendation may sound plausible at a first glance, however, it is hasty to say that such recommendation would work in any field of study.

Granted, in these days, interdisciplinary studies would guarantee the success of students at the job market. Considering the high unemployment rates and the rapidly-changing society, learning from various backgrounds provides more opportunaties for students in the job market. This seems to be true when we take a look at some successful figures' backgrounds. For example, if Steve Jobs, who initiated design-centric device to the mobile industry, and Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder of Facebook, had had their background in a single area, they might have not succeeded in the era of uncertainty. As a plethora of people already know, Jobs and Zuckerberg not only had knowledge on techonology, but also had a wide range of backgrounds in art and communicative manners. These aspects prove that in order to suceed and survive in unpredictable society, learning from other fields of study is inevitable.

However, such assertion does not guarantee rosy future for any field of study. Some fields may have rather adverse impacts when applying such recommendation. Sometimes, requiring students to take courses from outside their fields allows only shallow learning for their fields of study. University students only have 4 years to finish their course works. But within limited time, if students are forced to learn outside of their fields, the depth of their specialization would be impeded. Conwequently, it would only lead to the shallow learning of students and make them less competitive for the future.

For these reasons, such recommendation should not be applied to every field of study.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 497, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: had
...Zuckerberg, the co-founder of Facebook, had had their background in a single area, they...
^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, look, may, so, for example, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 19.5258426966 31% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.4196629213 64% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 33.0505617978 61% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 58.6224719101 77% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1604.0 2235.4752809 72% => OK
No of words: 298.0 442.535393258 67% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.38255033557 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15483772266 4.55969084622 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.13407728536 2.79657885939 112% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 215.323595506 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.546979865772 0.4932671777 111% => OK
syllable_count: 487.8 704.065955056 69% => 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: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.2370786517 74% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.0862790446 60.3974514979 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.933333333 118.986275619 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8666666667 23.4991977007 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.4 5.21951772744 84% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 10.2758426966 29% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.330462703735 0.243740707755 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.119876209714 0.0831039109588 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.124561696991 0.0758088955206 164% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.222501266625 0.150359130593 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.101694646357 0.0667264976115 152% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.1392134831 98% => 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: 13.92 12.1639044944 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.66 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 100.480337079 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
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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More content wanted.
Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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