Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student’s field of study.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
The statement suggests that universities should require all students to take various courses that are not in their field. Take into consideration of several possibilities that students may experience, they may not able to take extra courses while working on their major studies. So, universities should not require every student to take any courses outside the field; instead, they should suggest them to do so.
Some students do not have extra energy and time to take extra courses. Some students need to work part time or full time to support their study. They very often do not have time to study their major course let alone any others outside their major. To do well in any courses, hard work and time are vital. The mandatory outside field courses will leave them enough time for neither these extra courses nor their major studies.
Students have their own educational plans and interests. They tend to have some courses in mind that they want to take. For example, the career goal of a student majoring in Education is to teach immigrant English language learners. He is interested in taking courses relating to cultures and various foreign languages. If the school comes in and require the students to take courses concerning behavior management and how to teach science, the students’ plans and interests will be violated.
One may argue that knowledge does not stand alone and being multi-disciplinary is critical. For example, for students in Physics, they will need the knowledge of math to be able to do well in the field. Surely, some knowledge of different fields are closely related, and the lack of one will greatly affect the other as in the aforementioned example. Nonetheless, the knowledge of different fields that vitally dependent on each other are considered as and have already been included in the major studies while the courses are designed. Take a look at the aforementioned example, the necessary math knowledge will be included in the major courses. The courses outside of the field mentioned in the statement are talking about those that are not vital to the major studies. They therefore will not exert any life-or-death impact on the major studies and should not be mandatory.
In conclusion, one will never get enough knowledge, and it is beneficial to be knowledgeable in various fields. However, for a student, his major studies are the priority. In addition, students in the same major may have different interests and educational goals. Schools should not require them to take the same courses. Rather, they should provide sufficient advising to students so that they have a choice to or not to taken some extra courses.
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Essay evaluation report
flaws:
1. No. of Words: 442 while No. of Different Words: 177 //for GRE essays, arguments are impotent, but language is important too.
2. There are a lot of pretty simple sentences. You either repeat the subject like: 'students'
Some students do not have extra energy and time to take extra courses.
Some students need to work part time or full time to support their study.
or use pronouns as the subject, like:
They very often do not have time to study their major course let alone any others outside their major.
They tend to have some courses in mind that they want to take.
He is interested in taking courses relating to cultures and various foreign languages.
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3. and one more issues is that the length of the sentences are relatively similar. So the e-grader gives a lot of warning messages.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 25 15
No. of Words: 442 350
No. of Characters: 2170 1500
No. of Different Words: 177 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.585 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.91 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.592 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 148 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 126 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 68 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 43 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.68 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.461 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.329 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.525 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.139 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 99, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: part-time
...tra courses. Some students need to work part time or full time to support their study. Th...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 112, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled as one.
Suggestion: fulltime
...Some students need to work part time or full time to support their study. They very often...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 39, Rule ID: STAND_ALONE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'standalone'?
Suggestion: standalone
... One may argue that knowledge does not stand alone and being multi-disciplinary is critica...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 879, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...or studies and should not be mandatory. In conclusion, one will never get enough...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, look, may, nonetheless, so, therefore, well, while, for example, in addition, in conclusion, talking about
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.4196629213 153% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 33.0505617978 97% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 58.6224719101 97% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2238.0 2235.4752809 100% => OK
No of words: 442.0 442.535393258 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.06334841629 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58517132086 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71320457857 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 215.323595506 86% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.418552036199 0.4932671777 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 701.1 704.065955056 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.2370786517 124% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 23.0359550562 74% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.8509358316 60.3974514979 59% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 89.52 118.986275619 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.68 23.4991977007 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.76 5.21951772744 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.226285308226 0.243740707755 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0809939093663 0.0831039109588 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0626972173471 0.0758088955206 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156235422007 0.150359130593 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0636400634844 0.0667264976115 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 14.1392134831 79% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 48.8420337079 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.77 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.44 8.38706741573 89% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 100.480337079 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.2143820225 78% => Gunning_fog is low.
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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