Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study.
Write a response in which you discuss your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider the possible consequences of implementing the policy and explain how these consequences shape your position.
Education reform has been a controversial topic highly debated throughout recent years. Many consider the structures set in place to be antiquated. As a result, alternative schools with separate focuses have emerged. Naturally, this conversation has made its way into higher education. Contingents have formed arguing against the prerequisites - courses of many varieties - that students are required to take. But universities are tasked with building well rounded students. Most students go into college without a clue of what they would like to study. Colleges should require students to take a multitude of courses in order to address those needs.
To begin with, universities need to build students who can focus on their career aspirations, but are equipped for basic professional needs. Without mandatory courses, alarming deficits may form: a business major who is able to avoid taking standard english courses may make egregious grammatical errors in emails or presentations. Elementary grammatical mistakes will not reflect well on the employee nor the university. Well-rounded students create well-rounded workers. Required course work will address these inefficiences.
Furthermore, many students go into college not knowing what degree they would like to pursue. Most enroll in college at the young age of 18. Many consider this age too young to know what path to follow. The late founder and CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, credits his prerequisite courses to many product ideas. In a past Wall Street Journal article, Jobs stated "my prerequisite English course helped strike an interest in caligraphy, which directly influenced the iPhone software design." Jobs knew he wanted to get into the computer industry, but Stanford forced him to take his required introductory courses which sparked an interest. Thus, students may not know what they are interested in; it is crucial that they gain exposure to an amalgm of curriculum.
Additionally, many argue that college is an investment. Nevertheless, required course work can impose a large monetary obligation onto the student. College is expensive. Additional classes will only add to this financial burden. But students are investing in themselves. The opportunity to gain more exposure to possible interests is worth it. The price to pay now will pay dividends in the long run.
In summary, colleges should require students to take a multitude of courses outside of their field of study. Often, student do not know what they will like nor what will benefit them. More exposure will grant the student more opportunities for growth. As a result, students will leave college knowledgable and well-rounded.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, may, nevertheless, so, thus, well, in summary, of course, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 58.6224719101 101% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2269.0 2235.4752809 101% => OK
No of words: 415.0 442.535393258 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.46746987952 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51348521516 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94404921352 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 241.0 215.323595506 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.580722891566 0.4932671777 118% => OK
syllable_count: 705.6 704.065955056 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 13.0 23.0359550562 56% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 56.5661854232 60.3974514979 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 75.6333333333 118.986275619 64% => OK
Words per sentence: 13.8333333333 23.4991977007 59% => More words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 3.4 5.21951772744 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.83258426966 228% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.218360140227 0.243740707755 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0575589729586 0.0831039109588 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0743388223232 0.0758088955206 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.132465244301 0.150359130593 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0482897658355 0.0667264976115 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 14.1392134831 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.82 48.8420337079 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.85 12.1639044944 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.04 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 125.0 100.480337079 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 11.8971910112 55% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 7.2 11.2143820225 64% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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