Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study.
Is it necessary to take a variety of courses outside one's field of study to become a well-rounded individual? Admittedly, it would surely help students to gain a better perspective and knowledge they can use to analyze an issue from a variety of viewpoints. However, in my view, this education should be mandatory at the primary or high-school level rather than at the university level.
At the beginner level of education, students can focus on a number of courses since each one will be designed to give them an introductory idea of the topic. It should be mandatory at this level to help students in personality development and give them exposure to a variety of courses so that they can decide their field of interest, and pursue their careers accordingly. This strategy should be used as a mechanism that can help students trigger a life-long interest in a certain field at the school level.
University students would have already decided on the field of study they want to master. Making it mandatory for every student to take courses outside the student's field of study would be counter-productive in this case. First of all, university courses are different ball game. These courses dive deep into a field and include a number of project works, practical assignments, and research work to master the subject. Some students may not have the required time to take courses outside the field of study. For instance, computer science programs include a number of courses that require a lot of time to understand the practical aspects of the subject. If a student from such a field is forced to take other courses, it may affect his or her grades, skills, and career eventually. On the other hand, a student from a field that requires less practical work, such as a humanities student may get some additional time to complete the courses from the core field. Considering this, it is better to let the students decide whether they want to take other courses.
One may argue that taking a variety of courses should be mandatory for the students to grow intellectually, and to gain the social skills required in almost any career. However, the knowledge students get from the variety of courses in primary and high school is enough for this purpose. Implementing such a forceful policy at the university level is not viable. A simple reason for this is that a student could have spent his time working on a research project or gaining skills that would help him make a better profile.
In sum, forcing every student to take courses outside the field of study would be a grave mistake. Universities should adopt a flexible policy so that students from all fields can get additional courses whenever they get the required time during their program and get benefitted accordingly.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 872, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'humanities'' or 'humanity's'?
Suggestion: humanities'; humanity's
...requires less practical work, such as a humanities student may get some additional time to...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, first, however, if, may, so, well, for instance, of course, such as, first of all, in my view, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 37.0 33.0505617978 112% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2317.0 2235.4752809 104% => OK
No of words: 473.0 442.535393258 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89852008457 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.66353547975 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73391524362 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 215.323595506 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.416490486258 0.4932671777 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 733.5 704.065955056 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.7284868231 60.3974514979 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.333333333 118.986275619 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5238095238 23.4991977007 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.95238095238 5.21951772744 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.543923880065 0.243740707755 223% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.193271202093 0.0831039109588 233% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.121327151935 0.0758088955206 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.336212225414 0.150359130593 224% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.106129217182 0.0667264976115 159% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.1392134831 91% => 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: 11.44 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.6 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 100.480337079 86% => 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: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 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 5, column 872, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'humanities'' or 'humanity's'?
Suggestion: humanities'; humanity's
...requires less practical work, such as a humanities student may get some additional time to...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, first, however, if, may, so, well, for instance, of course, such as, first of all, in my view, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 37.0 33.0505617978 112% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2317.0 2235.4752809 104% => OK
No of words: 473.0 442.535393258 107% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89852008457 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.66353547975 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73391524362 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 215.323595506 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.416490486258 0.4932671777 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 733.5 704.065955056 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.7284868231 60.3974514979 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.333333333 118.986275619 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5238095238 23.4991977007 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.95238095238 5.21951772744 114% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.543923880065 0.243740707755 223% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.193271202093 0.0831039109588 233% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.121327151935 0.0758088955206 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.336212225414 0.150359130593 224% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.106129217182 0.0667264976115 159% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.1392134831 91% => 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: 11.44 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.6 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 100.480337079 86% => 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: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 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.