Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is better to have broad knowledge of many academic subjects than to specialize in one specific subject.

Schools have changed over the past few decades, and some of them are experimenting in narrowing the variety of subjects to make it more specific. Personally, I totally agree with them because it will let students focus more. I feel this way for three reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.

To begin with, studying a broad academic subjects waste students time. Someone who does not know what to study, he or she experiments a variety of topics in order to find his or her interest. As a result, he or she will end with wasting a couple of years. My cousin is a good compelling example of this. He is studying in the U.S. Even though that he wants to study pharmacy, he needs to finish a degree in science first. He wasted almost three years of his life figuring out the track to the pharmacy. Comparatively, I am studying pharmacy in Saudi Arabia and it is a specific program directly after high school. Had he started with me in Saudi Arabia, he would not have wasted three years from his life.

In addition to time-consuming, students will focus on the subjects they study without distracting. They will be familiar with the related topics and science that are needed to their field. A good example is the medical and pharmacy programs in Saudi Arabia. Even though that both of them are in medical fields, medical and pharmacist are separated. This is because physicians need to focus more on diagnosis-related topic, and pharmacists need to focus on pharmacology related topics.

Frankly speaking, it is good to have knowledge in a variety of topics, but sometimes people become talkative about the topic that they are not familiar with it. This will decrease the trust between people. For instance, my friend Hassan, who is a computer engineer, talks to me about medication which is my expertise. He usually says wrong information and insisted that it is true even though that I try to correct him.

All in all, I strongly believe that studying specific materials is much more beneficial. This is because it saves students time, and it makes students focus and be familiar with their subjects.

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Average: 6 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, frankly, if, so, for instance, i feel, in addition, as a result, it is true, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 15.1003584229 119% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 13.8261648746 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 55.0 43.0788530466 128% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 52.0 52.1666666667 100% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1761.0 1977.66487455 89% => OK
No of words: 367.0 407.700716846 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.79836512262 4.8611393121 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37689890912 4.48103885553 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69065257003 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 212.727598566 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.517711171662 0.524837075471 99% => OK
syllable_count: 548.1 618.680645161 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 18.0 9.59856630824 188% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 28.7780046862 48.9658058833 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 80.0454545455 100.406767564 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.6818181818 20.6045352989 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.63636363636 5.45110844103 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.116778008288 0.236089414692 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0366779548409 0.076458572812 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0515375456802 0.0737576698707 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0650481915068 0.150856017488 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0286404805357 0.0645574589148 44% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.5 11.7677419355 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 63.7 58.1214874552 110% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.4 10.1575268817 83% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.26 10.9000537634 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.87 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 86.8835125448 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.247311828 78% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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