Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student’s field of study.
I disagree with the claim that universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student’s field of study. This is majorly because by the time a student reaches the age to attend a university, they are mature enough to know their likes and dislikes and thus what they should study. Moreover, the onus of a holistic education is on the high school education system rather than on universities, as students are younger and thus more receptive to varied ideas as they might have not decided on which career path they wish to pursue.
Consider, for example, a math genius who wishes to pursue a career in theoretical physics and is considering applying to different universities for it. By virtue of the fact that this person is now eligible to apply for undergraduate courses, he must have passed high school and thus must have a decent knowledge of subjects unrelated to his interests such as English or History. Further specialized knowledge in either of those subjects would not benefit him in any way as the likelihood of that knowledge being used in his life is close to zero. A high school education would have given him the necessary generalized knowledge to function adequately in society as far as these subjects are concerned.
One might argue then about people who are not so sure about what they wish to pursue in life. But the answer to that is that these people would then find a university education utterly useless, as the likelihood of them being actually interested in whichever random subject they choose to study would be very low. As a result of this, and also a consequence of university education being highly advanced, they would either fail or drop out, which would be a complete waste of time and resources. If instead they would have chosen to focus on finding where their interests lie, they would have been better off.
This could then lead to another argument, that universities can help such unsure people find their true calling. But one thing which this argument ignores, is that it is not the job, nor a function, of a university to help students choose their career paths. A university is meant to be a place where a student comes with the aim of gaining specialized and advanced knowledge about a topic in a particular area. That is also why a university education is not compulsory, because it is not necessary for survival. It is just a place to gain knowledge.
Even if universities were to cater to the whims of these people and start forcing students to study varied courses, then that would present further disadvantages for the universities. They would be stretched for resources to cater to all the students, because previously only a few students attended select courses whereas now everyone would be attending all the courses. And not just teaching resources, but also infrastructure and money as well. It would be a perfect recipe for disaster. Hence, I disagree with the claim that universities should require students to take varied courses.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Further,
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Message: Did you mean 'had chosen'?
Suggestion: had chosen
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, hence, if, moreover, so, then, thus, well, whereas, for example, of course, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 33.0505617978 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 63.0 58.6224719101 107% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2521.0 2235.4752809 113% => OK
No of words: 516.0 442.535393258 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88565891473 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76609204519 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71498486366 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 239.0 215.323595506 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.463178294574 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 803.7 704.065955056 114% => 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: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.5208281483 60.3974514979 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.047619048 118.986275619 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5714285714 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.57142857143 5.21951772744 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.248203110759 0.243740707755 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0882190511558 0.0831039109588 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.162723402388 0.0758088955206 215% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151691484085 0.150359130593 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.128671685094 0.0667264976115 193% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.38 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.04 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 11.8971910112 155% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => 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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