Claim: Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's major field of study.
Reason: Acquiring knowledge of various academic disciplines is the best way to become truly educated.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
Education is one of the most important facets of a person's life. There is an extreme competition among the students to get into their dream universities. Education must focus on holistic development of students. I disagree with the claim and the reason on which the claim is based that universities should require students to take a variety of courses outside their field of study for the following reasons.
To begin with, universities can encourage its students to follow their passion and take extra courses in whatever fields they are interested, but they should not make it a requirement. The transition from high school to university is stressful enough as is, without the compulsion to take up extra courses. Students might get stressed out if it affects their grades. They might not even have time to complete their courses, and thus, forcing them to take up extra courses will end up being counterproductive. Thus, the college should actively encourage, but not force the students to take up extra courses outside their field.
Furthermore, many students are burdened with the surmount educational loans that they have taken in order to join a university. Not many of them would be affluent enough to afford courses in disciplines that are outside their fields. According to a 2020 survey by the University of Southern California, 75 percent of the students said that they were interested in skills outside their major such as photography, calligraphy, cooking, cartography and learning musical instruments but they simply were not able to afford these courses. Thus, universities can try to make extra-curricular courses more accessible and affordable in order to encourage students to take them up.
Another reason why universities should not force their students to take a variety of courses outside their major is related to each person's interest. If the students are interested to learn a whole lot of different skills, they should definitely be encouraged. Incentives in the form of credits can be given to the students to galvanize them to take up extra courses. To elucidate with an example, an institute in India offers open elective courses with 3 credits every even semester and the students are required to choose a subject not offered by their own department. This creates interest in the students, it gives them an incentive and also doesn't empty their pockets as it is a part of their university.
Some may say that only forcing the students to take up extra courses will make them erudite. However, that is not true. When the students are given their freedom, they will begin to explore their interests, and whether or not they complete tens or hundreds of extra courses, at the end of the day, they would have completed their major, and that makes them educated. To reiterate, I do not agree with the claim that universities should require their students to take up courses outside their major field of study.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 52, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'persons'' or 'person's'?
Suggestion: persons'; person's
...s one of the most important facets of a persons life. There is an extreme competition a...
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Line 3, column 46, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...ermore, many students are burdened with the surmount educational loans that they have taken ...
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Line 4, column 192, Rule ID: WHOLE_LOT[1]
Message: Use simply 'lot'.
Suggestion: lot
... the students are interested to learn a whole lot of different skills, they should defini...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 646, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...ts, it gives them an incentive and also doesnt empty their pockets as it is a part of ...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 10, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'saith', 'says'.
Suggestion: saith; says
...s a part of their university. Some may say that only forcing the students to take ...
^^^
Line 5, column 211, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...l begin to explore their interests, and whether or not they complete tens or hundreds of extra...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, may, so, thus, of course, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 52.0 33.0505617978 157% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 81.0 58.6224719101 138% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2453.0 2235.4752809 110% => OK
No of words: 487.0 442.535393258 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03696098563 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69766713281 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78887297057 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 215.323595506 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.451745379877 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 767.7 704.065955056 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.4151655654 60.3974514979 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.5 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1363636364 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.86363636364 5.21951772744 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
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: 0.279055976526 0.243740707755 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106691446778 0.0831039109588 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0953770389473 0.0758088955206 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.200953429437 0.150359130593 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0556404428902 0.0667264976115 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.1392134831 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 100.480337079 100% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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 1, column 52, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'persons'' or 'person's'?
Suggestion: persons'; person's
...s one of the most important facets of a persons life. There is an extreme competition a...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 46, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...ermore, many students are burdened with the surmount educational loans that they have taken ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 192, Rule ID: WHOLE_LOT[1]
Message: Use simply 'lot'.
Suggestion: lot
... the students are interested to learn a whole lot of different skills, they should defini...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 646, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...ts, it gives them an incentive and also doesnt empty their pockets as it is a part of ...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 10, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'saith', 'says'.
Suggestion: saith; says
...s a part of their university. Some may say that only forcing the students to take ...
^^^
Line 5, column 211, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...l begin to explore their interests, and whether or not they complete tens or hundreds of extra...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, may, so, thus, of course, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 52.0 33.0505617978 157% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 81.0 58.6224719101 138% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2453.0 2235.4752809 110% => OK
No of words: 487.0 442.535393258 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03696098563 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69766713281 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78887297057 2.79657885939 100% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 215.323595506 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.451745379877 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 767.7 704.065955056 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.4151655654 60.3974514979 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.5 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1363636364 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.86363636364 5.21951772744 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
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: 0.279055976526 0.243740707755 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106691446778 0.0831039109588 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0953770389473 0.0758088955206 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.200953429437 0.150359130593 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0556404428902 0.0667264976115 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.1392134831 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 100.480337079 100% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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.