A college’s duty to its students is to teach the tools for them to take forward and contribute back to society. In the past, most people would not pursue a degree higher than a high-school diploma, but as society evolves and improves we are witnessing a record number of young adults enrolling in universities and pursuing higher education. These educators believe that the best way to prepare their disciples is to present them a breadth of information; however, others believe that if possible they should avoid teaching unnecessary courses. When it comes to knowledge, no information is useless, and enforcing a diverse degree offers many benefits in preparing the padawans for their future.
First, having students take courses out of their degree tends to result in well-rounded individuals. For example, in the University of California colleges, they require students to fulfill what are known as General Education requirements which encompass many different academic disciplines such as art, social sciences, and technology. The reason for such an initiative was to inform and educate students in matters outside their domain of expertise to the point that they can hold basic conversations with people from foreign subjects. The primary complaint with such a program is that students are forced to take extra courses to complete their degree which ends up costing more money and time, but the added benefit of being able to socialize with experts outside their domain of expertise increases the opportunities the graduates can obtain in the future.
Furthermore, the addition of courses outside the core curriculum facilitates cross-collaboration across the different fields of science. Take for example the case of the stochastic LDA model which was first designed by population geneticists then later applied to the field of natural language processing and linguistics. Academia is not meant to be a silo’ed environment where progress and work done in one field can only be applied to that area only. Science depends on collaboration between different disciplines to make progress and advance understanding. One issue is, however, that to apply a technique from one field to another requires a deep understanding of both fields which is not possible with a diverse educational background. Without the initial exposure to multiple backgrounds, one cannot be expected to understand what to research further and how connections can be made.
Finally, most people enter college not knowing what they like to study and what they want to do for the rest of their life. In fact, at UCI 2 out of every 3 students change their major before graduating. Most people use college as a way to explore many fields and by requiring students to take courses from different disciplines it encourages student exploration, allowing them to discover what they are passionate about. This better prepares students by allowing them to discover and set their own goals.
Thus, requiring a variety of courses in a university’s curriculum offers many benefits to the students. This requirement produces well-rounded students who have studied what they are certain that they wanted to study, and who are prepared for cross-collaborative work. With the world becoming more and more connected each day, a horizontal skill set is proving rather useful.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 636, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'offer'?
Suggestion: offer
...useless, and enforcing a diverse degree offers many benefits in preparing the padawans...
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Line 3, column 255, Rule ID: NUMEROUS_DIFFERENT[1]
Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
... Education requirements which encompass many different academic disciplines such as art, socia...
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Line 9, column 41, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...Thus, requiring a variety of courses in a university's curriculum offers man...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, so, then, thus, well, as to, for example, in fact, of course, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 80.0 58.6224719101 136% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2829.0 2235.4752809 127% => OK
No of words: 530.0 442.535393258 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.33773584906 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.79809637944 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.03839263965 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 287.0 215.323595506 133% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.541509433962 0.4932671777 110% => OK
syllable_count: 884.7 704.065955056 126% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => 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: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.1934834312 60.3974514979 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.714285714 118.986275619 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.2380952381 23.4991977007 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.52380952381 5.21951772744 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.301320817427 0.243740707755 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0829128938778 0.0831039109588 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0644586072166 0.0758088955206 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.157001229141 0.150359130593 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0432804504705 0.0667264976115 65% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 14.1392134831 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 48.8420337079 77% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.99 12.1639044944 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.23 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 146.0 100.480337079 145% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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.