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/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
Should it be mandatory for all students to take a variety of courses other than their major studies? The statement is obviously positive on this questions. However, considering the negative impact the proposed action may have on both the universities and students, instead of requiring every student to take any courses outside the field, universities should make it optional.
Some students do not have time to extra time to take courses outside their major studies. To financially support their study, students very often need to work one or more part-time, if not full-time, jobs, which occupies a considerable amount of time. Additionally, students have other activities requiring time such as school meetings, group projects, social life, and exercise. Look at this way, time could be a critical issue for students to attend to extra courses. At this time, if students are forced to take up extra workload, they will do well in neither these extra-curricular courses nor the major courses. As the major studies is students’ primary goal, extra courses other than major studies can be pernicious.
In addition, as students have their own educational plans and interests, the courses required to take are oftentimes not as wished. To complement their prospective career goals and obtain certain specialized knowledge, many students are clearly aware of what courses to take and what not. For example, the career goal of a student majoring in Education is to teach immigrant English language learners. He is interested in taking courses relating to cultures and various foreign languages. If the school comes in and requires the students to take courses concerning behavior management and how to teach science or to take more than they desired, the students’ plans and interests will be violated.
One may argue that knowledge does not stand alone and being multi-disciplinary is critical. For example, for students in Physics, they will need the knowledge of math to be able to do well in the field. Surely, there is some knowledge of different fields are closely related, and the lack of one will greatly affect the other as in the aforementioned example. Nonetheless, the knowledge of different fields vitally dependent on each other are considered as and have already been included in the major studies while the courses are designed. Take a look at the aforementioned example, the necessary math knowledge will be included in the major courses. The courses outside of the field mentioned in the statement suggest those that are not vital to the major studies. They therefore will not exert any life-or-death impact on the major studies and should not be mandatory.
In conclusion, one will never get enough knowledge, and it is beneficial to be knowledgeable in various fields. However, for a student, his major studies are the priority. In addition, students in the same major may have different interests and educational goals. Schools should not require them to take a fixed number of certain courses. Rather, they should provide sufficient advising to students so that they have freedom in taking extra courses.
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Essay evaluation report
Sentence: The statement is obviously positive on this questions.
Description: A determiner/pronoun, singular is not usually followed by a noun, plural, common
Suggestion: Refer to this and questions
As the major studies is students’ primary goal,
As the major studies are students’ primary goals,
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arguments: OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 26 15
No. of Words: 505 350
No. of Characters: 2554 1500
No. of Different Words: 219 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.74 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.057 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.739 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 189 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 161 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 100 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 58 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.423 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.38 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.654 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.325 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.51 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.118 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 141, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
... The statement is obviously positive on this questions. However, considering the neg...
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Line 7, column 39, Rule ID: STAND_ALONE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'standalone'?
Suggestion: standalone
... One may argue that knowledge does not stand alone and being multi-disciplinary is critica...
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Line 7, column 873, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...or studies and should not be mandatory. In conclusion, one will never get enough...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, look, may, nonetheless, so, therefore, well, while, for example, in addition, in conclusion, of course, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.4196629213 153% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.3162921348 35% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 58.6224719101 107% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2642.0 2235.4752809 118% => OK
No of words: 505.0 442.535393258 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23168316832 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74048574033 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89129525916 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 215.323595506 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.445544554455 0.4932671777 90% => OK
syllable_count: 826.2 704.065955056 117% => 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
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.8382760765 60.3974514979 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.615384615 118.986275619 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4230769231 23.4991977007 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.76923076923 5.21951772744 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => 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: 0.263385817766 0.243740707755 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0844787775101 0.0831039109588 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0531629167107 0.0758088955206 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.175112021099 0.150359130593 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0553522490416 0.0667264976115 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.1392134831 91% => 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: 13.05 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 111.0 100.480337079 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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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