A true university education encompasses far more than the narrow, specialized study of a single discipline. Only through exploring the broad spectrum of liberal arts courses can students become truly learned.
The author states that a true university education encompasses far more than the narow, specialized study of a single discipline and only through exploring the broad spectrum of liberal arts courses can the students become truly learned. I agree with the author as I, too, believe that a university education should be all round and should consist of liberal arts to achieve overall learning. The following points will elucidate my stance.
I believe that universities should provide overall development as we go to the universities to prepare ourselves to step into the real world. To do well in this world, and to be able to take care of ourselves, we should be equipped with dealing with real life situations that are related to not only the field that we will be working in but also in our daily life. For this we need an overall development which includes not only academic but also personal development that will be provided when we are pursuing and exploring the various liberal arts. They help us in shaping our personality which forms the basis of the kind of people we want to be.
When we concentrate on only our specialty while we are pursuing a degree at a university, we are restricting the scope of the subjects that we will be learning. Along with this, we also restrict the kind of exposure we will receive on topics other than our field of specialty. This may end up in hampering our personality development as we are fixated on only our field of specialization. This personality development, that happens when we are exposed to the liberal arts, helps us in gaining people skills, communication skills, etc which help us in facing the real world. We sure will have all the knowledge that we need in our field of specialization but as we know, man is a social being and hence interaction with other people and having self confidence is as important as having the knowledge or the skill.
Moreover, we go to universities for a higher education, that is an education more advanced than the one that we received in the school. We want to learn new things and gain new experiences. We want something more than what we were given in our schools, we want something better. This better should include not only knowledge regarding the field of our specialization but also about other aspects of life which are equally as important.
Although, I have to agree that somethimes we may even feel that the whole reason of pursuing a degree at a university and the reason for spending so much money on higher education is to gain expertise in that specific field of study that we are more interested in and that we want to have careers in. We may even feel that we had explored the liberal arts in school so we have explored that field but we may need more than a superficial exposure to be able to develop our personalities in a better way.
In conclusion, I agree that specialized study is a very vital part of university education but to be truly learned, exposure to the liberal arts is equally as important and that's what a true university education should comprise of.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 415, Rule ID: EQUALLY_AS[1]
Message: Don't say 'equally as'. You can use either 'equally' or 'as' on its own. When comparing two nouns, use 'just as'.
Suggestion: equally; as; just as
...o about other aspects of life which are equally as important. Although, I have to agree...
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Line 11, column 149, Rule ID: EQUALLY_AS[1]
Message: Don't say 'equally as'. You can use either 'equally' or 'as' on its own. When comparing two nouns, use 'just as'.
Suggestion: equally; as; just as
...earned, exposure to the liberal arts is equally as important and thats what a true univers...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 11, column 174, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: that's
...iberal arts is equally as important and thats what a true university education should...
^^^^^
Line 11, column 220, Rule ID: COMPRISE_OF[1]
Message: Did you mean 'comprise' or 'consist of'?
Suggestion: comprise; consist of
...what a true university education should comprise of.
^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, may, moreover, regarding, so, well, while, in conclusion, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 26.0 11.3162921348 230% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 77.0 33.0505617978 233% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2552.0 2235.4752809 114% => OK
No of words: 542.0 442.535393258 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.70848708487 5.05705443957 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82502781895 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76694458802 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 217.0 215.323595506 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.40036900369 0.4932671777 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 823.5 704.065955056 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 19.0 6.24550561798 304% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 23.0359550562 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 65.8167943272 60.3974514979 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.315789474 118.986275619 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.5263157895 23.4991977007 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.57894736842 5.21951772744 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.211686643147 0.243740707755 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0925616403594 0.0831039109588 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.174258472047 0.0758088955206 230% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.176788090314 0.150359130593 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.177985812319 0.0667264976115 267% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.1392134831 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.33 12.1639044944 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.5 8.38706741573 89% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 100.480337079 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.2143820225 118% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 415, Rule ID: EQUALLY_AS[1]
Message: Don't say 'equally as'. You can use either 'equally' or 'as' on its own. When comparing two nouns, use 'just as'.
Suggestion: equally; as; just as
...o about other aspects of life which are equally as important. Although, I have to agree...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 11, column 149, Rule ID: EQUALLY_AS[1]
Message: Don't say 'equally as'. You can use either 'equally' or 'as' on its own. When comparing two nouns, use 'just as'.
Suggestion: equally; as; just as
...earned, exposure to the liberal arts is equally as important and thats what a true univers...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 11, column 174, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: that's
...iberal arts is equally as important and thats what a true university education should...
^^^^^
Line 11, column 220, Rule ID: COMPRISE_OF[1]
Message: Did you mean 'comprise' or 'consist of'?
Suggestion: comprise; consist of
...what a true university education should comprise of.
^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, if, may, moreover, regarding, so, well, while, in conclusion, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 26.0 11.3162921348 230% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 77.0 33.0505617978 233% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2552.0 2235.4752809 114% => OK
No of words: 542.0 442.535393258 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.70848708487 5.05705443957 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82502781895 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76694458802 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 217.0 215.323595506 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.40036900369 0.4932671777 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 823.5 704.065955056 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 19.0 6.24550561798 304% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 23.0359550562 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 65.8167943272 60.3974514979 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.315789474 118.986275619 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.5263157895 23.4991977007 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.57894736842 5.21951772744 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.211686643147 0.243740707755 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0925616403594 0.0831039109588 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.174258472047 0.0758088955206 230% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.176788090314 0.150359130593 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.177985812319 0.0667264976115 267% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.1392134831 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.33 12.1639044944 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.5 8.38706741573 89% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 100.480337079 85% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.2143820225 118% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: 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.