Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study because acquiring knowledge of various academic disciplines is the best way to become truly educated.
Education, they say, is the best legacy and if anyone thinks that education is costly, the individual should try ignorance! Several scholars have defined the key word "education" and quiet a lot of publications, articles, and journals have been produced on this general topic of interest. however, education could mean different definition to an individual or the other. Personally, I would define education as acquiring knowledge about everything that is relevant to one's discipline. In other word, when an individual knows a certain thing about every field and (or virtually) all about his/her own field, then he/she is educated. where then do we acquire knowledge about a field or the other? A key example are the citadels of learning. I would mostly agree with this prompt that universities should require every student to take variety of courses outside the students' field of study. however, I would like to rephrase that the students should be required rather to take a variety of "relevant" courses outside the students' field of study based on three reasons that will be highlighted in subsequent paragraphs.
Firstly, the knowledge of ones field of study may not only be enough for a student to become well rounded and T-shaped as far as education is concerned. There may be need for broadness of horizons and spanning of tentacles beyond the boundary in which a student is actively involved. For instance, as a sophomores in mining engineering, it was part of my course curriculum to take python programming language during my second year of study. one could ask that what does programming have to do with mining engineering? Or of what relevance is the course in order to make mining student approved in his field of study? The truth is that we are in an advanced world where technology has experience a paradigm shift. machines are now being used to replace human efforts most especially in the mines. use of robots are now being incorporated into mining engineering and a key knowledge of robotics is artificial intelligence and machine learning which are solely built on python programming language. so, in this situation, the university required mining engineering students to take python programming language as one of the requirements to earning a degree.
Furthermore, another reason why universities should enrol every student in a variety of courses outside the student's field of study is for students to become well-rounded and relevant in every respect. such that the students can fit into (literally) any job position upon graduation. that is the main purpose of education! if the knowledge I have as a bachelor's degree holder in mining engineering is only limited to my field if study, then I have not actually fulfilled the purpose of education. this is so because as a university graduate, a job opportunity may not or never open up in one's field of study. would that individual remain unemployed for life? Certainly not, if such a student has been thoroughly equipped in every respect. More so, we are in the twenty first century, where an accountant by study is a web developer by practice. this could only have been possible due to extra and relevant knowledge that he/she has garnered right from the university.
To conclude, I would like to state, however, that students should be required to take only the important courses and not extraneous ones that holds no valuable or predictably valuable relevance to their field of study.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, may, second, so, then, well, for instance, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.5258426966 159% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.4196629213 153% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 33.0505617978 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 81.0 58.6224719101 138% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2919.0 2235.4752809 131% => OK
No of words: 573.0 442.535393258 129% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0942408377 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89258810929 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98154246946 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 266.0 215.323595506 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.464223385689 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 945.9 704.065955056 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.4481797007 60.3974514979 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.269230769 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0384615385 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0 5.21951772744 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 19.0 7.80617977528 243% => Less language errors wanted.
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: 11.0 4.83258426966 228% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.390038224217 0.243740707755 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104129454084 0.0831039109588 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.112941261744 0.0758088955206 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.243656440139 0.150359130593 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0731193749329 0.0667264976115 110% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.1392134831 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.8420337079 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.1743820225 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 12.1639044944 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 124.0 100.480337079 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 16.0 11.8971910112 134% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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