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.

Knowledge is valuable in every era. It is believed that the wisest of people is to invest in education. However, people have different ideas about question of whether it is more important to have wide comprehension in many subjects than to specify in one special major. In my point of view, I would like to be educated in a particular subject. I feel this way for two reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.
First of all, if I choose one major, I am able to spend all my energy to develop and learn to understand this subject more deeply. We all know that time is limited, for me I cannot do two things in a certain time. Therefore, I prefer to invest to one thing and try to do my best, and I strongly believe that I can get the best result by doing that way. My own experience is a compelling example of this case. When I was in nursing college, I had to take many courses in a term, besides, I also wanted to learn some optional subjects in order to support my career late on. Thus, I took six classes per a semester. I worked day and night as a diligent ant. I did not have any leisure time to take care myself. However, I could not get the grades as my goal. Understanding my ability and the limitation of time, I quit some selective classes and concentrated on my own major classes. As a result, I achieved many good marks and I obtained a scholarship that year as well. This point illustrates that if I focus on one subject, I can do better than taking many majors.
Secondly, nowadays, most of the company owners tend to hire the people who specialize in a particular subject or skill rather than in many subjects. Therefore, being an expert in one field is better than having a little information about several fields. In other words, if you are a scholar in one major, it is easier to have a good and stable job. To be more specific, last month two of my friends together applied for a job in a supermarket near our town. One of them specializes in technological computer, the other one has potential in some different jobs. Eventually, the one who is expert at technology was received to work there. The Vietnamese have a proverb that says: “Jack of all trades and master of none”. It means, a person who can do many different types of work but not is necessarily very competent at any of them. Thus, spending your energy to develop your skill in one specific field is better than having incompetent knowledge in many fields.
In conclusion, because of limitations in our time and energy, the advantages of specializing in one specific subject outweighs the advantages of learning many academic subjects. I strongly support the statement that it is better to focus on one specific subject.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 653, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'has'.
Suggestion: has
... received to work there. The Vietnamese have a proverb that says: 'Jack of all ...
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Line 3, column 760, Rule ID: NUMEROUS_DIFFERENT[1]
Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
...ne'. It means, a person who can do many different types of work but not is necessarily ve...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, well, i feel, in conclusion, as a result, first of all, in other words

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 15.1003584229 119% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 58.0 43.0788530466 135% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 72.0 52.1666666667 138% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2236.0 1977.66487455 113% => OK
No of words: 496.0 407.700716846 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.50806451613 4.8611393121 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71922212354 4.48103885553 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71567641309 2.67179642975 102% => OK
Unique words: 247.0 212.727598566 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.497983870968 0.524837075471 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 736.2 618.680645161 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 20.0 9.59856630824 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.6003584229 136% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.8510203948 48.9658058833 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 79.8571428571 100.406767564 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.7142857143 20.6045352989 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.32142857143 5.45110844103 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 11.8709677419 168% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 3.85842293907 0% => 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: 0.294536907515 0.236089414692 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0744635245865 0.076458572812 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0827996225005 0.0737576698707 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.205629687671 0.150856017488 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0707067595883 0.0645574589148 110% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.7 11.7677419355 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 58.1214874552 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 10.1575268817 86% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 8.58 10.9000537634 79% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.7 8.01818996416 96% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 86.8835125448 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => 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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