Some people think that universities should provide graduates with the knowledge and skills needed in the workplace Others think that the true function of a university should be to give access to knowledge for its own sake regardless of whether the course

Essay topics:

Some people think that universities should provide graduates with the knowledge and skills needed in the workplace. Others think that the true function of a university should be to give access to knowledge for its own sake, regardless of whether the course is useful to an employer.
What, in your opinion, should be the main function of a university?

University students directly enter into the country’s work force after graduation. Therefore, some hold that they should be given a specific education, which is needed to perform a certain task as an employee, whereas, others believe in ordinary university courses, where they gain a general knowledge about an area. As today’s industries are highly competitive for workers and demand particular skills, Specific education is the best, but the general idea of a subject may sometimes be useful as well.

Specialized students start their career with a competitive edge, which secures a job without an extra effort, because their study plan was tailor made for the current job market. Not only they secure a high-tier job, but it also enables them to perform at a higher proficiency level and thereby, please the employer while increasing the productivity of the company. This is supported by a recent study conducted at Oxford University, in which they claim that the performance of focused workers is always higher than workers whom were delivered a traditional syllabus at universities. However, specialization sometimes has drawbacks thereof in rare situations.

Keeping above in mind, were a professional to switch his job, situation would be more difficult for him than to a unfocused worker. Some may argue that he will not be able to find a job and will fail to perform at a new work place although he finds one. However, I believe that they have a greater ability to adjust for any industry because they were trained to focus one thing at a time. In addition to that, previous work experiences will definitely support them to perform their tasks at a professional level. That being said, having some superficial knowledge about other subjects may offer them an additional advantage in this sort of situation.

In conclusion, focused curriculum gives students a chance to secure higher professions and to perform well; they thereby experience a good quality of life. However, in addition to main study area, it would be a good idea for universities to give them a very superficial knowledge on other areas in view of giving them more confidence to face rare difficulties that may arise in the future.

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Average: 8.4 (1 vote)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, so, therefore, well, whereas, while, as to, in addition, in conclusion, sort of

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 10.4138276553 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 24.0651302605 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 41.998997996 105% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.3376753507 132% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1863.0 1615.20841683 115% => OK
No of words: 363.0 315.596192385 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13223140496 5.12529762239 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3649236973 4.20363070211 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86593013529 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 176.041082164 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.575757575758 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 602.1 506.74238477 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 0.0 2.52805611222 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.2975951904 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 48.8780239422 49.4020404114 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.071428571 106.682146367 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.9285714286 20.7667163134 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.71428571429 7.06120827912 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.139816988058 0.244688304435 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0475794363873 0.084324248473 56% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0534914500326 0.0667982634062 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.096297262374 0.151304729494 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0555020552572 0.056905535591 98% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 13.0946893788 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 50.2224549098 75% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 11.3001002004 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.77 12.4159519038 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.01 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 78.4519038076 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 9.78957915832 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.1190380762 119% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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