TPO 12 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.
As everything in life is like a coin that has two different sides, people must weight pros and cons before jumping to conclusions. After all, each and every question or topic requires careful deliberation in that there are always multiple variables to a truth. Some people believe that it is beneficial to have broad knowledge of many academic subjects rather to specialize in one specific subject. In my humble opinion, I think it is better to specialize in one subject. I feel this way for two main reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.
First of all, the majority of individuals would agree to the notion that specialization in one field of study is favorable and will reap numerous advantages. Moreover, focusing your time and effort in one specific subject is a good way because you gain more knowledge and in depth analysis of the topic. For example, I excel in science when I was in high school and that gives me an Idea what course I would take up in college. Later on, I enrolled in Nursing school and really enjoyed my 4 year course because I loved the science behind it. Long story short, I became a proficient nurse because I devoted myself in one specific course and because I love studying science I got high grades in college and become Suma Cumlaude in Class. All in all, having a specialization is actually a good thing because it will prepare you in the future and in your career.
Secondly, people who are in between academic subjects will be having hard time deciding what is best for them in the future. Yes, it is important to acquire broad knowledge in all your academic subjects, but not all is vital in order to be successful in life. Subjects like Philosophy and history will not be important if your chosen career will not be aligned to theses subjects. You will not tell your boss the history of your home country if your work is a carpenter or an engineer. My point is you will be wasting your precious time studying all these subjects but you will not use it your practical life. For instance, my friend Mike who major in Music conservatory. He studied all the curriculum in High school, but when he entered college some subjects are not needed at all. The focus of their study was all with regards to Music, composition of music and melody arrangement. All his efforts did not pay off in high school because he did not use it in his career now.
To summarize this, I firmly believed that specialization is better than having broad knowledge in many academic subjects. This is because giving your whole attention to one specific course can provide you with the in depth knowledge in that filed.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, first, if, moreover, really, second, secondly, so, after all, for example, for instance, i feel, i think, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 15.1003584229 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 9.8082437276 133% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 13.8261648746 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 60.0 43.0788530466 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 63.0 52.1666666667 121% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.0752688172 149% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2180.0 1977.66487455 110% => OK
No of words: 470.0 407.700716846 115% => OK
Chars per words: 4.63829787234 4.8611393121 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65612321451 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5721600345 2.67179642975 96% => OK
Unique words: 230.0 212.727598566 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.489361702128 0.524837075471 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 703.8 618.680645161 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 27.7175840002 48.9658058833 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 99.0909090909 100.406767564 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3636363636 20.6045352989 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.04545454545 5.45110844103 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 11.8709677419 152% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.85842293907 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.293760237045 0.236089414692 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.094435541698 0.076458572812 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0991707114998 0.0737576698707 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.213011601917 0.150856017488 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.068179402392 0.0645574589148 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 11.7677419355 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 58.1214874552 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.63 10.9000537634 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.6 8.01818996416 95% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 86.8835125448 100% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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