Some people think that universities should provide graduates with the knowledge and skills needed in the workplace. Others think that the true function of a university should be to give access to knowledge for its own sake, regardless of whether the course is useful to an employer.
What, in your opinion, should be the main function of a university?
Education experts have spent years poring over surveys and compiling data, trying to come up with conclusive evidence as to the main function of a university. It seems in recent years the opinion swings from one extreme to the other. This essay will look at the arguments regarding this hot issue.
One of the more compelling arguments for universities providing graduates with expertise for their future careers finds its origins in economics. Parents have been investing in their children’s college studies in hope that they will earn a decent job with stable salary. Consequently, career preparation is becoming increasingly vital to the young people, especially in today's tight labor market with fewer jobs than before. Some people thus have called for universities to be more vocation-oriented because that way not only the graduates’ employment rates would be enhanced but the students be motivated for being given an opportunity to succeed in their future professions. From a helicopter view, in countries, particularly developing ones, the economic advances need numerous professional talents in the fields like finance, management, legislation, medicine, thereby putting universities in a pivotal position of nurturing these professionals.
However, reaching the conclusion that other functions, such as giving access to knowledge for its own sake, are no longer important is biased. For hundreds of years, especially in the west, the undergraduate education is, indeed, a liberal education, which means the undergraduates learn a wide range of curriculums such as psychology, economics, politics that has no direct relations to jobs. The upsides of this is that it firstly enables students to become broad-minded and help them lay a solid theoretical foundation, then they will be able to choose the most appropriate field based on their own interests for further studies.
Personally, without suggesting that imparting career-oriented knowledge and skills is the sole function of modern universities, I think it is by no means a less important one. In any way, it is now increasingly acting as a gauge for judging a university and therefore becoming one of the primary functions of a university.
Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'consequently', 'first', 'firstly', 'however', 'look', 'regarding', 'so', 'then', 'therefore', 'thus', 'as to', 'i think', 'such as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.242894056848 0.247107183377 98% => OK
Verbs: 0.152454780362 0.155533422707 98% => OK
Adjectives: 0.105943152455 0.0946595960268 112% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0594315245478 0.0501214627716 119% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0361757105943 0.0437548338989 83% => OK
Prepositions: 0.129198966408 0.122226691241 106% => OK
Participles: 0.0671834625323 0.0403226058552 167% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.23025491718 2.80594681477 115% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0258397932817 0.0326793684256 79% => OK
Particles: 0.00258397932817 0.00163938923432 158% => OK
Determiners: 0.100775193798 0.0861772015684 117% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0103359173127 0.021408717616 48% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00516795865633 0.011925033212 43% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2225.0 1933.35771543 115% => OK
No of words: 343.0 316.048096192 109% => OK
Chars per words: 6.48688046647 6.12580529183 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30351707066 4.20517956788 102% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.405247813411 0.374742101984 108% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.32944606414 0.28420135186 116% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.247813411079 0.203846283523 122% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.195335276968 0.137316102897 142% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.23025491718 2.80594681477 115% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 176.037074148 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.650145772595 0.56093040696 116% => OK
Word variations: 82.0351267269 60.7387585426 135% => OK
How many sentences: 13.0 16.0891783567 81% => OK
Sentence length: 26.3846153846 20.7743622355 127% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.1364115767 49.517814964 130% => OK
Chars per sentence: 171.153846154 127.492653851 134% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3846153846 20.7743622355 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.07692307692 0.814263465372 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38877755511 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.99599198397 0% => OK
Readability: 59.3292217986 49.1944974215 121% => OK
Elegance: 1.77083333333 1.69124875643 105% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.505857294742 0.332605444948 152% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.083884755589 0.102741220458 82% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0430775463483 0.0668466124924 64% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.570264736259 0.534860350844 107% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.1094666163 0.148594505496 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.196202037007 0.134430193775 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0628892679253 0.0742795772207 85% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.281995788697 0.324371583561 87% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0305392337875 0.0638462369009 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.319915039607 0.228012699653 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0408877314023 0.058150111329 70% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.68436873747 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.41683366733 88% => OK
Positive topic words: 6.0 5.90881763527 102% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 2.5751503006 78% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 1.9629258517 153% => OK
Total topic words: 11.0 10.4468937876 105% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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Note: This is not the final score. 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.