Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Universities should require
every graduation student to take public speaking courses. Give specific examples and
details to support your answer.
A growing number of competitions brings tremendous pressure to college students, especially graduation students, since they will be about to face the social challenges. In order to help students to acquire more skills, someone suggests that universities should require graduation students to take public speaking courses. From my perspective, I do not agree with it and consider that it will cause many problems.
Admittedly, for students who major in politic or language, taking this kind of courses is of benefit to them for improving relative ability. However, on the contrary, there is less worth for the students who do not need public speaking skills, such as science and engineering students. All they are supposed to do is staying in laboratory and conducting scientific research. So, if they are forced to choose this course, it is obvious that they will waste valuable time for concentrating on their own major, which actually restrict their development in the future.
Moreover, it is unreasonable for graduation students to take this course because of being pressed for time. To be more specific, there are numerous tasks waiting for graduation students, such as preparing graduation thesis and looking for a job. Taking speaking course is not suitable for students who have heavy schedule. Take me for example, I will graduate from university this year and now I am occupied with finishing my thesis, so do my classmates. Luckily, we have few courses so that we can fully focus on our paper work and carefully think about our future, get a job or go on studying. I am afraid that if suddenly take new courses, not only I have to divide my limited time but it is hard to acquire speaking skills fundamentally as well. That is because students should draw on skills from the very beginning, not just before the graduation.
Furthermore, there is no doubt that unnecessary courses will lead to a waste of money and resources. Universities have to hire more professors to fill the requirement of class. However, these expanses are extravagant because the value cannot be maximized by students who have no interest in it. Both students and teachers will feel meaningless about this course. It proves that taking public speaking courses for everyone is not a perfect strategy.
To put it in a nutshell, requiring every graduation student to take public speaking courses should not be adopted. Graduation students should be allowed to utilize time to do what they have already decided and what they are willing to do.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, furthermore, however, if, look, moreover, so, well, for example, kind of, no doubt, of course, such as, i am afraid, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 15.1003584229 139% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 43.0788530466 104% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 52.1666666667 92% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.0752688172 136% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2120.0 1977.66487455 107% => OK
No of words: 418.0 407.700716846 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07177033493 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52162009685 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8113132275 2.67179642975 105% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 212.727598566 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.516746411483 0.524837075471 98% => OK
syllable_count: 658.8 618.680645161 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.2002661923 48.9658058833 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.952380952 100.406767564 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9047619048 20.6045352989 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 5.45110844103 128% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 11.8709677419 59% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.88709677419 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.268266147584 0.236089414692 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0963956886898 0.076458572812 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0844446948077 0.0737576698707 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.180789621183 0.150856017488 120% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.066095042731 0.0645574589148 102% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 11.7677419355 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 58.1214874552 90% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.1575268817 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 10.9000537634 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 86.8835125448 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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