Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student’s field of study.
Some believe that universities should require every student to take courses other than their major. Despite the demands on such education policy, however, it does not always guarantee the quality of education at university.
Admittedly, many job markets in these days prefer those who have knowledge in various fields. With the advent of fourth revolution which needs technological development with fields outside the technology, multiple companies require their (future) workers to have various knowledge. Before the rise of creative industries, many mainly considered factors such as mass production and cost savings. However, after the rise of creative industries, companies started to consider factors use to be unproductive. For example, Apple, which produces iPhone considers design and innovative thinking as important standards to be successful. To compete in the smart phone industries, other competitor such as Samsung is now providing educational program related to arts and philosophy to their workers. Thus, to enhance both hardware and software, interdisciplinary approach is required. Accordingly, to satisfy the job market demands and meet expectation of university students, the author’s claim can be agreed to a certain degree.
However, the idea that universities should require outside courses may be challenged for several reasons; that is, university students might lose their chances for profound understanding in their major. Some may argue that students are able to learn ‘broad’ and ‘general’ knowledge throughout university life. But that’s nothing but naïve idea. Considering double-majoring case, students who are pursuing double degrees take only half of courses compared to single-major students. Therefore, contrary to the author’s claim, requiring outside courses to every student can have dark side in pursuing professional knowledge at university.
Furthermore, such policy will inevitably cause restructuring on unpopular major. Universities may implicitly or explicitly provide programs that market prefers. We witnessed that school curriculum is influenced by the outer factors such as job market conditions. When personal computer was distributed, computer use classes became mandatory courses. Recently, as AI and IoT technology is rising, some universities are teaching software program to their students. Without considering students’ real demands, universities may provide courses that market prefers. While market-friendly courses survive and increases in number, some courses that is not related to such interests may be decreased or disappear. Hence, the author’s claim that requiring outside courses to every student can be dangerous in the perspective of diversity of academy.
In conclusion, while the author’s claim might seem beneficial in certain conditions, the idea that requiring outside courses to every student is not always guarantee good results.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, but, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, so, therefore, thus, while, for example, in conclusion, of course, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.3162921348 141% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 33.0505617978 64% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 58.6224719101 94% => 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: 2549.0 2235.4752809 114% => OK
No of words: 420.0 442.535393258 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.06904761905 5.05705443957 120% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52701905584 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.23842697881 2.79657885939 116% => OK
Unique words: 232.0 215.323595506 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.552380952381 0.4932671777 112% => OK
syllable_count: 794.7 704.065955056 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.9 1.59117977528 119% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.8742207474 60.3974514979 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.208333333 118.986275619 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5 23.4991977007 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.41666666667 5.21951772744 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.83258426966 248% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.378831372217 0.243740707755 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103355042097 0.0831039109588 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.123807258373 0.0758088955206 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.242738732987 0.150359130593 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.114038454714 0.0667264976115 171% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 14.1392134831 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 28.84 48.8420337079 59% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.5 12.1743820225 111% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 17.63 12.1639044944 145% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.71 8.38706741573 116% => OK
difficult_words: 139.0 100.480337079 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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