TPO-12 - Independent Writing Task 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.

A prevalent statement we hear a lot today is that having broead knowledge of many subjects is better than specializing in one specific subject in academy since we have more ways to apply our knowldege in. A considerable number of people, however, argue that only by specializing in one specific subject can we achieve great success because we can concentrate our energy and time this way. As far as I am concerned, the former view seems to align more with my perspective. There are several reasons to support my point of view. The following two will suffice here.

To begin with, have nroad knowldege does not mean that we treat all the subjects equally and spread our energy and time evenly. It is means that when we have deep knowledge in one subject, we are always ready to learn knowledge of other subject. This is becoming more and more important in today's society because talents that can apply their knowledge to all walks of live are demanding. For example, as we can see, IT is the most properous field today. Programers become more and more valuable. However, what people need is not just a well-train programer that can write codes in different language, but a one that can build database for financial data, or analysis medical images and so on. The specific application environement require programers have basic knowledge besides computer. In this case, we can see how a broad range of knowledge matters.

For another, having knowledge of many academic subjects will always give us inspiration or tools in our main filed. As we all know, Newton is a giant and he had achievement in both physics and astronomy. And we are also impressed by his understanding of gavity. However, what we also need to know is that Newton is also a great mathematics. When he was trying to exploring the nature, Newton also realized the importance of math, with out which, his insightful views will remain hypothesis forever. Mathemetics provides Newton the key to unlock the door to nature, and so do other subjects. Not only a doctor should be good at phramacy, but also he need to know the machanism behind them, that is, biology and chemistry. There are thousands of hundred of examples like that could be named. And the reason is as the same.

Admittedly, a minority of people may aruge that specialize in one specifc subject will concentrate one's limited energy and cost. However, what I want to refute is that this kind of thinking is rigid. Like catalyst in chemistry, some sort of other knowledge sometimes will inspire us or break a ceiling or a bottleneck. These potentials are worthy and always the key in unimaginable breakthrough.

For the reasons mentioned above, I highly agree that broad knowledge of many academic subjects is more important than specializing in just one.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 431, Rule ID: WITH_OUT[1]
Message: This word is usually written together. Did you mean 'without'?
Suggestion: without
...n also realized the importance of math, with out which, his insightful views will remain...
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Line 7, column 258, Rule ID: ADVERB_WORD_ORDER[10]
Message: The adverb 'sometimes' is usually put between 'will' and 'inspire'.
Suggestion: will sometimes inspire
...chemistry, some sort of other knowledge sometimes will inspire us or break a ceiling or a bottleneck. ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, however, if, may, so, well, for example, kind of, sort of, to begin with

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 15.1003584229 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 9.8082437276 184% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 13.8261648746 145% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 11.0286738351 145% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 43.0788530466 116% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 52.1666666667 105% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2318.0 1977.66487455 117% => OK
No of words: 477.0 407.700716846 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.85953878407 4.8611393121 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67336384929 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70590535657 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 246.0 212.727598566 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.51572327044 0.524837075471 98% => OK
syllable_count: 747.0 618.680645161 121% => 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: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.86738351254 321% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.6003584229 131% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 46.8796140848 48.9658058833 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.8518518519 100.406767564 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6666666667 20.6045352989 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.40740740741 5.45110844103 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 11.8709677419 152% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.27503233656 0.236089414692 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0683063449848 0.076458572812 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0827049466615 0.0737576698707 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.177045500325 0.150856017488 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0875619493756 0.0645574589148 136% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.3 11.7677419355 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 58.1214874552 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.61 10.9000537634 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.96 8.01818996416 99% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 86.8835125448 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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