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 Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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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.

Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Some people believe that it is better to have a broad knowledge of many academic subjects than to specialize in one specific subject because having a broad knowledge helps a person to know the superficial idea of many academic realms. However, I do not agree and think that having specifications in one particular subject is better than having a broad knowledge of many subjects for the following reasons.

First of all, I believe that having specialization in one subject is better because specialization in one subject increases a person's output. For example, we had a teacher who used to teach Maths, Science, and English, who had broad knowledge. However, he was not an expert in a particular field, as a result, he had no knowledge in dept. He used to teach all the subjects superficially when student used to as a question in dept, he used to be evasive. On the other hand, we had another teacher, who had specialized particularly in Mathematics. Since he was an expert in Mathematics, he used to teach maths in a clear way and often used to go into the dept of mathematics. As a result, he was the favorite teacher among many students. In sum, having specialization in one subject is better than broad knowledge of many academic subjects.

Second of all, it is better to have specialization in one specific subject because it boosts your confidence for success. When you have specialization in one particular academic realm, it boosts your confidence since you know most of the aspects of subjects in depth. Eventually, it increases your confidence in a particular academic field. For example, in my workplace, there are so many Engineers. When we work in software development, there are few Engineers who always seem confident because they have specialized knowledge in software development. One the other, few of us, who are masters in all, and experts in none, often seem nervous when a new project regarding software development usually comes. Hence, having specifications in one subject boosts your confidence for success.

In conclusion, I think it is better to have specialized in one specific subject than having a broad knowledge of many academic subjects. I feel this way because having specialized subjects increases output, and it boosts your confidence for success.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 149, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[4]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'broad knowledge'.
Suggestion: broad knowledge
... in one specific subject because having a broad knowledge helps a person to know the superficial ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 609, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a clear way" with adverb for "clear"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
... in Mathematics, he used to teach maths in a clear way and often used to go into the dept of m...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 744, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ite teacher among many students. In sum, having specialization in one subject is ...
^^
Line 5, column 580, Rule ID: WHO_NOUN[1]
Message: A noun should not follow "who". Try changing to a verb or maybe to 'who is a are'.
Suggestion: who is a are
... development. One the other, few of us, who are masters in all, and experts in none, of...
^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, hence, however, if, regarding, second, so, for example, i feel, i think, in conclusion, you know, as a result, first of all, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 15.1003584229 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 9.8082437276 0% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 13.8261648746 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 43.0788530466 81% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 52.1666666667 100% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.0752688172 173% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1915.0 1977.66487455 97% => OK
No of words: 380.0 407.700716846 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.03947368421 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41515443553 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.05087404033 2.67179642975 114% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 212.727598566 68% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.378947368421 0.524837075471 72% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 615.6 618.680645161 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 9.59856630824 156% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.4304476739 48.9658058833 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.789473684 100.406767564 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 20.6045352989 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.84210526316 5.45110844103 144% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 11.8709677419 126% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.467510535033 0.236089414692 198% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.185156356612 0.076458572812 242% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.167466879282 0.0737576698707 227% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.364103674318 0.150856017488 241% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.128484893395 0.0645574589148 199% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 11.7677419355 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 10.9000537634 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.83 8.01818996416 85% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 86.8835125448 61% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.002688172 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.

So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:

reasons == advantages or

reasons == disadvantages

for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

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