There is enough controversy about whether it is better to have a broad knowledge of many subjects or deep understanding of a single one. In my opinion, it totally depends on the type of carrier a person wants to pursue in the future. Personally, I think for an engineer like me, knowledge about a wide spectrum of subjects is better in comparison to specialization in a specific one. I think this way for three main reasons which I will explore in the following essay.
First and foremost, most of the engineering problems can only be solved by applying concepts from a blend of engineering domains, not just a single one. To put it into perspective, most of the problem which comes to my table expects me to have some knowledge about even the subjects which are not even related to the major I am pursuing. For example, quite recently I designed an automatic locking mechanism for public bicycle sharing system for which I had to learn mechanical design software and server programming even though I am an electronics engineer.
Secondly, exposure is very important in any field. Exposure helps a person to deliver better results. For instance, suppose I am assigned a position of embedded system development engineer in an organization which manufactures mobile phones. Having the knowledge about only embedded systems can undoubtedly get the work done but if I am more aware of the development going on in the related fields I can actually come up with a product which compliments these developments and thus my product will have better chances of getting picked up from variety of choices available and it will, in turn, help me earn larger profit.
Finally, I think having broad knowledge makes a person a better professional. My own experience is a compelling example of this. Initially, I thought being an engineer I do not need to take management classes and hence I should not be forced to do so. However, those forced classes turned out to be beneficial for me during my technical projects as the management and analysis strategies I learned in the management class made me a better team leader and project manager.
To summarize, while for a scientist or a researcher specialization in one specific subject is must, prospective professionals like me are benefited more from knowledge on a wide variety of subjects.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, finally, first, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, thus, while, for example, for instance, i think, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 34.0 43.0788530466 79% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 52.1666666667 107% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.0752688172 136% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1944.0 1977.66487455 98% => OK
No of words: 394.0 407.700716846 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93401015228 4.8611393121 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.45527027702 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97345397385 2.67179642975 111% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 212.727598566 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.53807106599 0.524837075471 103% => OK
syllable_count: 633.6 618.680645161 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6003584229 78% => 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: 24.0 20.1344086022 119% => OK
Sentence length SD: 82.6043847202 48.9658058833 169% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.5 100.406767564 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.625 20.6045352989 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.4375 5.45110844103 155% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => 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: 0.27065169572 0.236089414692 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0967856377482 0.076458572812 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.132967569827 0.0737576698707 180% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.170200765 0.150856017488 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.12074708431 0.0645574589148 187% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 11.7677419355 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 58.1214874552 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 10.1575268817 125% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 10.9000537634 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.87 8.01818996416 111% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 86.8835125448 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.0537634409 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.