some people think universities should provide knowledge and skills related to a future career; others think the true function of university is to give access to knowledge for its own sake. what is your opinion of the main function of university?
The main purpose of tertiary education has engendered drastic controversy among public. While some people agree that university courses should be concerned with employment potentials, I am on board with the opinion that university education should mainly focus on the knowledge itself.
Advocate of vocational training might argue that providing occupational knowledge and skills would better equip students with essential background and help them quickly adapt to the working environment. However, the problem with such argument is that we are now living in a fast-changing world, and it is hard for university to predict precisely about the employment trend as well as the latest knowledge. For example, Information Technology engineers are required to study the most up-to-date computer languages and tools every year, since the world is changing and the skills they harnessed in tertiary education soon become outdated. So it would be a wast of time and resource if university focus on offering curriculums based on employment needs.
By contrast, providing knowledge regardless of the employment trend allows more career resilience, as it cultivates a range of cognitive abilities including creativity, analytical thinking as well as critical thinking which are pivotal in almost every phase of employment and every field of work. To illustrate, rather than being restricted by employment possibilities, students are encouraged to be open-minded and think outside the box, therefore honing creativity among young learners. Such abilities are valued more highly by employers than specific employment skills. Take a Chinese company Huawei for example, the company spent millions of dollars in 2019 to recruit talents from different fields to help with its technology innovation. The corporation made it clear that all disciplines were welcomed as long as they were equipped with high levels of creativity and free thinking. Therefore, in today’s world, what matters is not the specific knowledge or skills people acquires, but the abilities they are furnished with.
To conclude, I believe devising courses based on job market is not suitable for today’s fast changing working environment, and the main function of tertiary education should be to develop various abilities in students to help them better embrace the challenges in the working environment.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, so, therefore, well, while, for example, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 10.4138276553 115% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 41.998997996 121% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 8.3376753507 240% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2015.0 1615.20841683 125% => OK
No of words: 359.0 315.596192385 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.61281337047 5.12529762239 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35284910392 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94129842279 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 204.0 176.041082164 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.568245125348 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 625.5 506.74238477 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 5.43587174349 37% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0721442886 81% => 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 20.2975951904 133% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 64.9042079762 49.4020404114 131% => OK
Chars per sentence: 155.0 106.682146367 145% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.6153846154 20.7667163134 133% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.30769230769 7.06120827912 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.67935871743 104% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.220567544803 0.244688304435 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0705432003583 0.084324248473 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0666356745266 0.0667982634062 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.134029132248 0.151304729494 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0581663369909 0.056905535591 102% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.8 13.0946893788 144% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.61 50.2224549098 71% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 11.3001002004 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.55 12.4159519038 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.68 8.58950901804 113% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 78.4519038076 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 9.78957915832 158% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.1190380762 126% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.7795591182 148% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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