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 statement claims that universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study. I firmly agree with its viewpoint for the following reasons.
To begin with, the society we live in is becoming larger and more complex due to not only technological improvements but also the ongoing globalization. Therefore, universities are expected to develop students’ well-being comprehensively instead of requiring students to only focus on their expertise. For example, architects cannot build a skyscraper at a random street in New York City. In order to secure safety and durability of the construction, architects have to possess knowledge to evaluate conditions that should be taken care of, such as examining soil composition at the location to see if it can withstand a bulk skyscraper. Also, collecting climate data like average humidity and temperature to choose the most suitable materials in building since mantels like steel may be rusted fast in a humid area so a replacement is indispensable. All of these actions necessitates knowledge from different field of study.
Additionally, the students can achieve better academically through taking courses outside their field of study. Students can develop certain skills which can benefit their expertise. For example, computer science students can improve their writing skills by attending English-writing classes. By teaching students how to form a well-structured essay, these classes surely help students to learn how to organize their logics and expound their thoughts in a formal and elegant way. On the other hand, such training, in return, provides computer science students with opportunities to think and elaborate their ideas and it is the most important process in programming. Thus, when students are writing an essay, they are also sharpening their coding skills.
Admittedly, some may argues that it is unnecessary for students to take course outside their majors. It makes sense that for certain majors, it can be an extra burden instead of a potential benefit. For example, art students are always busy with their homework and seem to manage to catch up their due date endlessly. Their expertise lies on hand-on practices instead of knowledge from other field of study. In this case, requiring them to take part in other courses is burdening their academic life. Also, for liberal art students who don’t have majors, the requirement to take another courses appear to be redundant since they are already asked to learn all of them. However, even though for certain students it is unnecessary to follow what the statement suggests, it is beneficial to most cases.
To sum up, students who take part in courses that are outside their field of study can definitely gain more knowledge and such knowledge can favor their expertise. Therefore, I firmly support the statement’s claim.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, so, therefore, thus, well, for example, of course, such as, to begin with, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 73.0 58.6224719101 125% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2467.0 2235.4752809 110% => OK
No of words: 459.0 442.535393258 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.37472766885 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62863751936 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96738424457 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 244.0 215.323595506 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.531590413943 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 766.8 704.065955056 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.9579028832 60.3974514979 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.260869565 118.986275619 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9565217391 23.4991977007 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.73913043478 5.21951772744 110% => 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: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.272096120506 0.243740707755 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0929649332171 0.0831039109588 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0977571182548 0.0758088955206 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.197049163925 0.150359130593 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.110081754802 0.0667264976115 165% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.87 12.1639044944 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.64 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 100.480337079 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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