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?
An University degree has become an important milestone to be achieved so as to compete in today's job market. While some believe that the courses in Universities should, therefore, provide skill oriented curriculum, others think that they should be more academic in nature. In my opinion, courses should be a combination of both practical and theoretical knowledge in order to be beneficial for both students as well as employers.
While studying any course, it is essential that the foundation of the subjects need to be taught to students. This helps them to build deep knowledge and expertise in the subject study. For e.g., for any surgeon, learning surgical skill will not be of any benefit without understanding physiology of the body. Furthermore, the skills required for any job can be acquired on the job through training or apprenticeship. However, most people undertake University education with an aim to further their job prospects and lack of practical knowledge may harm these prospects.
On the other hand, if University courses provide a balance of both skills and academic knowledge, it can help graduates to approach their job roles more confidently in the future. Also, by hiring skilled graduates, employers are able to eliminate the cost and effort required in training fresh graduates. This benefits the company through higher productivity from skilled work force. Further, it also aid graduates as they are able to draw better salary packages from their employers and raise their standard of living.
To conclude, University courses focusing only on academic knowledge helps neither the students nor employers. An intermediary approach of providing course content including both practical and theoretical knowledge is a better alternative.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'A' instead of 'An' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: A
An University degree has become an importa...
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Line 1, column 71, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...e an important milestone to be achieved so as to compete in todays job market. While som...
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Line 1, column 409, Rule ID: BOTH_AS_WELL_AS[1]
Message: Probable usage error. Use 'and' after 'both'.
Suggestion: and
...rder to be beneficial for both students as well as employers. While studying any cours...
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Line 5, column 402, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'aids'?
Suggestion: aids
...om skilled work force. Further, it also aid graduates as they are able to draw bett...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, e.g., furthermore, however, if, may, so, therefore, well, while, as to, as well as, in my opinion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 13.1623246493 84% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 7.85571142285 102% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 10.4138276553 86% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 41.998997996 88% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.3376753507 48% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1496.0 1615.20841683 93% => OK
No of words: 276.0 315.596192385 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.42028985507 5.12529762239 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.07593519647 4.20363070211 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93949344584 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 176.041082164 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.579710144928 0.561755894193 103% => OK
syllable_count: 464.4 506.74238477 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.10420841683 143% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.2731680443 49.4020404114 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 106.857142857 106.682146367 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7142857143 20.7667163134 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.71428571429 7.06120827912 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.67935871743 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.287601847492 0.244688304435 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0922799825787 0.084324248473 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0718163837239 0.0667982634062 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.168660415544 0.151304729494 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0782066124252 0.056905535591 137% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 13.0946893788 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 50.2224549098 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.16 12.4159519038 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.04 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 78.4519038076 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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