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.

Although I believe that students benefit from taking courses outside their field study, I consider that universities should “encourage” students to do so, instead of requiring ALL students to do so, for the following reasons.

Most students want to get high pay in big companies after graduation. Companies need employees having knowledge about many other relative fields, so taking courses outside their major can help students find better jobs. For example, because of the era of knowledge economic, lots of companies have started to emphasize the importance of “noncognitive skill,” such as the ability of negotiation, communication, and innovation, so as to not only help employees reduce the obstacle during selling the products to the customer, but also increase the efficiency of the team works. Without sociological knowledge, people could not realize what customers think during the conversation, which may increase the risk of making them unhappy so as to decrease the companies’ reputation.

In addition, students should meet new friends outside their field of study, which may provide assistance in the future when they need, and one of the fast ways is taking the class outside the major. For instance, when students face the lawsuit problem in the future, such as sexual harassment, a lawyer friend can provide legal knowledge about this case and give some discount on the lawyer fee. Or when they want to invest the stock market in the future, a friend of economy professor can provide some information about future economic trend without paying money to him. Therefore, building many ties to the friends outside the major field will help students deal with the accidental problem more efficiency.

Some may contend that some students only have interests in their own field of study, and the only reason for taking courses outside their field is the requirement of graduation credits. Indeed, not every student has divergent interests and likes to meet new friends. Therefore, I believe that “encourage” instead of requiring to take courses outside their field of study is the optimal approach. Students only wanting to study their major do not need to take the courses outside their field. On the other hand, by encouraging students having interests on other fields to study additional courses, they will learn knowledge about other disciplines, and meet friends outside their own field of study at the same time.

Therefore, universities should “encourage” instead of requiring students to take courses outside their field of study.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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...ncrease the risk of making them unhappy so as to decrease the companies' reputation...
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Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'contends'.
Suggestion: contends
...al problem more efficiency. Some may contend that some students only have interests ...
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Message: Did you mean 'taking'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'require' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: taking
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, may, so, therefore, as to, for example, for instance, in addition, such as, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 19.5258426966 15% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 33.0505617978 70% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2203.0 2235.4752809 99% => OK
No of words: 406.0 442.535393258 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.42610837438 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.48881294772 4.55969084622 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04394137937 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 215.323595506 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.472906403941 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 666.0 704.065955056 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK

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: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 71.207178165 60.3974514979 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 146.866666667 118.986275619 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.0666666667 23.4991977007 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.93333333333 5.21951772744 133% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.409494820665 0.243740707755 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.174048339479 0.0831039109588 209% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.13885683065 0.0758088955206 183% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.301577485521 0.150359130593 201% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.141051284361 0.0667264976115 211% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.7 14.1392134831 125% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.51 12.1639044944 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.2 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 100.480337079 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => 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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