Some people think that universities should provide graduates with the knowledge and skill 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. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
While people’s preferences vary when it comes to the purpose of advanced education, I personally believe that both practical skills and theoretical knowledge should share an equal importance.
On the one hand, advantages of preparing students for the workplace are obvious. Firstly, previous training of practical skills can simply ensure students’ quick adaptation in the workplaces. Since most students will end up in workplaces, it will undoubtedly benefit the majority both physically and mentally. Meanwhile, it also enhances students’ competitiveness in the job market, because companies nowadays tend to prefer applicants with some skills to prove their capabilities. This is especially true when it comes to certain domains such as accounting, where a qualified certificate is much more important than the scores one gains in the exams.
On the other hand, to cultivate greater contributors to the society, it is far from enough to train students to become qualified employees with practical skills. Theoretical knowledge, as the original aim of teaching, is also of vital importance. A solid foundation in professional knowledge will help a lot in one’s future promotion. This is because to handle some situations and difficulties, profound professional knowledge is sometimes required. More importantly, it helps to develop creativity and critical thinking through learning these theories, which may be more helpful than practical skills in a future career. Anyway, what the companies need are not working robots, but people who can really contribute ideas. Universities, however, should take the initial responsibility in preparing students to become excellent contributor to the society in this respect.
In conclusion, I am convinced that a real asset for the society should be inculcated with both useful skills and theoretical knowledge in the university.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'anyway', 'but', 'first', 'firstly', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'really', 'so', 'while', 'in conclusion', 'such as', 'on the other hand']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.243161094225 0.247107183377 98% => OK
Verbs: 0.118541033435 0.155533422707 76% => OK
Adjectives: 0.112462006079 0.0946595960268 119% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0577507598784 0.0501214627716 115% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0273556231003 0.0437548338989 63% => OK
Prepositions: 0.106382978723 0.122226691241 87% => OK
Participles: 0.0182370820669 0.0403226058552 45% => Some participles wanted.
Conjunctions: 3.2549869266 2.80594681477 116% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0364741641337 0.0326793684256 112% => OK
Particles: 0.00303951367781 0.00163938923432 185% => OK
Determiners: 0.0942249240122 0.0861772015684 109% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0273556231003 0.021408717616 128% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0182370820669 0.011925033212 153% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1898.0 1933.35771543 98% => OK
No of words: 282.0 316.048096192 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.7304964539 6.12580529183 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09790868904 4.20517956788 97% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.460992907801 0.374742101984 123% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.379432624113 0.28420135186 134% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.308510638298 0.203846283523 151% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.237588652482 0.137316102897 173% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.2549869266 2.80594681477 116% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 176.037074148 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.609929078014 0.56093040696 109% => OK
Word variations: 67.1631474043 60.7387585426 111% => OK
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0891783567 87% => OK
Sentence length: 20.1428571429 20.7743622355 97% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.0019304516 49.517814964 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.571428571 127.492653851 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1428571429 20.7743622355 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.0 0.814263465372 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38877755511 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 3.99599198397 0% => OK
Readability: 58.0861195542 49.1944974215 118% => OK
Elegance: 1.80597014925 1.69124875643 107% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.426055361918 0.332605444948 128% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0829254366895 0.102741220458 81% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0547234203859 0.0668466124924 82% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.515495584244 0.534860350844 96% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.222136450603 0.148594505496 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.170055096649 0.134430193775 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0832191796179 0.0742795772207 112% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.318982201294 0.324371583561 98% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.118410237983 0.0638462369009 185% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.302620731567 0.228012699653 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0431444955325 0.058150111329 74% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.68436873747 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.41683366733 59% => OK
Positive topic words: 10.0 5.90881763527 169% => OK
Negative topic words: 0.0 2.5751503006 0% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 2.0 1.9629258517 102% => OK
Total topic words: 12.0 10.4468937876 115% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 67.4157303371 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.0 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.