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 the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
Education is an extremely powerful weapon, yet the definition of this term to many people is quite provincial. The role of education in a person’s life is not only to enlighten him in a certain field of study, but to ensure that the person has the ability to communicate his ideas to other, bring them to life, and also be a valuable member of his community. Therefore, universities should not only focus on imparting subject knowledge, but should also ensure that they produce students that are well-rounded, have a broad outlook, and possess skills to make their way through life once they leave the bird’s nest. This can definitely be achieved if universities focus on the holistic development of the student by introducing courses outside the student’s field of study.
Firstly, such a requirement in universities would help broaden the outlook of the student. An engineering student who has strong fundamentals and is also innovative might want to put his creativity and knowledge to use and implement an idea that can be beneficial to other. Here, if courses such as those of management and economics are a part of his curriculum, he can use this amalgam and perhaps create a very beneficial and prosperous business someday. This could also work the other way round. A business student who takes courses related to environmental science could perhaps couple his knowledge and also come up with a great idea for a start-up. Even if students don’t do ahead and build start-ups, they’ll at least not be ignorant of fundamental issues in other fields of study that affect him on a day-today basis, hence, expanding his horizons.
To add to the above point, knowledge of certain subjects is extremely crucial and hence, must be compulsory, as they are fundamental life skills. Subjects like management, economics, personal finance, physical exercise, communication, home economics among many others play an important role in the daily routine of any person and hence, cannot be neglected. These might or might not be taught to a student by his parents, but can definitely be taught at an educational institute. A student pursuing computer science might be adept at programming or development because he religiously follows his coursework and put in efforts of his own but might be severely deficient in communicating with other and building interpersonal relationships. In such a situation, he will pass his exams with flying colors and be every teacher’s pet, yet be unable to present himself well to an interviewee at a job interview or build a strong network of people. Eventually, this extremely diligent student would lose out on well-deserved opportunities because even though his university education provided him with all the knowledge of the world with respect to his major, it failed him in terms of making him an actual functional human being. Whereas, if he had probably taken a course in public speaking or communication skills, he would have had a proper platform to work on this weakness.
Finally, it can be helpful in case the student decides to take a different career path than the one he is majoring in. Young people cannot be expected to know exactly what they wish to do for their rest of their lives, yet they are forced to declare their majors as soon as they turn into adults. Having a mix of courses in the curriculum would provide the student with a platform to explore and experiment, and finally realize where his passion truly lies. This could also provide flexibility when it comes to a change in career paths, as the student would already have some fundamental knowledge of the new career that he is pursuing because he had taken a couple of course related to it in university. This would also be more credible to job hunters and could be the student’s foot in the door of the new industry.
Ultimately, it depends on the student to leverage such a liberal opportunity of taking a variety of courses to expand his knowledge, but students definitely should be given such an option in their college lives.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, hence, if, look, so, therefore, well, whereas, as to, at least, of course, such as, with respect to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.5258426966 149% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 27.0 12.4196629213 217% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 30.0 14.8657303371 202% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 62.0 33.0505617978 188% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 97.0 58.6224719101 165% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3374.0 2235.4752809 151% => OK
No of words: 681.0 442.535393258 154% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.95447870778 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.10842213422 4.55969084622 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88007141162 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 325.0 215.323595506 151% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.477239353891 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 1076.4 704.065955056 153% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 6.24550561798 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 10.0 1.77640449438 563% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 29.0 23.0359550562 126% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 59.5647096138 60.3974514979 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 146.695652174 118.986275619 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.6086956522 23.4991977007 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.86956521739 5.21951772744 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.2758426966 165% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.1491978966 0.243740707755 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0552417388535 0.0831039109588 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0507717645896 0.0758088955206 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109400708597 0.150359130593 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0289164314169 0.0667264976115 43% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 14.1392134831 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.04 48.8420337079 86% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.74 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 158.0 100.480337079 157% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.5 11.8971910112 164% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.2143820225 121% => OK
text_standard: 20.0 11.7820224719 170% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
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.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, hence, if, look, so, therefore, well, whereas, as to, at least, of course, such as, with respect to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.5258426966 149% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 27.0 12.4196629213 217% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 30.0 14.8657303371 202% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 62.0 33.0505617978 188% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 97.0 58.6224719101 165% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3374.0 2235.4752809 151% => OK
No of words: 681.0 442.535393258 154% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.95447870778 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.10842213422 4.55969084622 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88007141162 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 325.0 215.323595506 151% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.477239353891 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 1076.4 704.065955056 153% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 6.24550561798 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 10.0 1.77640449438 563% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 29.0 23.0359550562 126% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 59.5647096138 60.3974514979 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 146.695652174 118.986275619 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.6086956522 23.4991977007 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.86956521739 5.21951772744 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 10.2758426966 165% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.1491978966 0.243740707755 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0552417388535 0.0831039109588 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0507717645896 0.0758088955206 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109400708597 0.150359130593 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0289164314169 0.0667264976115 43% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 14.1392134831 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.04 48.8420337079 86% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.1743820225 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.74 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 158.0 100.480337079 157% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.5 11.8971910112 164% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.2143820225 121% => OK
text_standard: 20.0 11.7820224719 170% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
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.