Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student s field of study

University is a perfect place to practice knowledge by studying a variety of books both inside and outside their field of study. Some scholars argue that educational institutes should compulsorily include a range of outside courses in their curriculum so that students can elucidate their knowledge to be an erudite person in future. Well, studying books from outside the field is a great idea but making it required is not always effective due to two reasons. In my opinion, I disagree with the mentioned prompt as required reading of outside books somehow will be cumbersome for many students and it might also be financially burdensome for many.

To begin with, at university students need to do a lot of practical work, seminar, presentations and so on, moreover students need to finish them within a specific timeframe. For instances, In Bangladesh an undergraduate student is required to finish 130 credits within four years. Furthermore, in many subjects they are required to do one year internship along with the courses. If they need to study more courses that are not related with their subject area that will be quite difficult especially if that outside courses are being very different than their area of expertise. For example, if a literature student has to study quantum physics than undoubtedly it would be terrifying. Thus, studying outside books compulsorily at university is not thoughtful always.

Further, except European countries, university study is not free worldwide. In fact, it is quite expensive nowadays. Not all students can afford university level education. Most of the students do parttime job or take student loan to bear the expenses. If university make variety of courses mandatory, it will be burdensome for the financially needy students. Not only that, students have to study extra hours which perhaps be more problematic for the students who work parttime to continue their study.

However, I do concede the fact that university level students need to study outside books to sharpen their knowledge. In fact, there are many examples that many people are skilled in completely different area of their study. One of the perfect examples could be Noam Chomsky, who primarily studied mathematics, but has many theories about linguistics and now who is world famous critic. If a student fond of read outside books, he or she will do it regardless their workload or limited time. All university have library and teachers may encourage them to read outside books more but making it a requirement may not be a plausible idea.

In conclusion, I believe that, studying outside subjects is a great idea and students should do so, but university should not make it mandatory. As many students come from poor background, to complete such courses they might be faced hardship. Also, if the outside books are completely different than the subjective courses, many students could find it difficult to finish it within limited timeframe. Therefore it could be more reasonable that universities encourage the students to study outside courses that they are truly interested instead of making variety of courses required reading.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, may, moreover, so, therefore, thus, well, as to, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, of course, in my opinion, to begin with

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 : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 33.0505617978 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 12.9106741573 15% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2659.0 2235.4752809 119% => OK
No of words: 510.0 442.535393258 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2137254902 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75217629947 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81225212501 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 232.0 215.323595506 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.454901960784 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 844.2 704.065955056 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 0.0 4.99550561798 0% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.5380109789 60.3974514979 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.36 118.986275619 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4 23.4991977007 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.04 5.21951772744 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 5.13820224719 234% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.459945508215 0.243740707755 189% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.143560093287 0.0831039109588 173% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.082666390806 0.0758088955206 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.303984772847 0.150359130593 202% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0741908186392 0.0667264976115 111% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.1392134831 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.8420337079 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.0 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 100.480337079 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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