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 recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
With the advent of the Liberal Arts education model, there has been much discourse of the advantages of an education in diverse subjects. The statement asserts that this is a necessary and good part of a new age of further education. We live in a world that is constantly changing, and with this exponential progress, comes exponential decay. There are certain areas and industries that are becoming obsolete. There are many reasons for this: technological progress, change in processes, diminishing natural resources. In general, it is becoming vital to be able to adapt and think critically to survive.
Today's fields of study need to be interdisciplinary in order to fill the needs of the constantly changing industries, as mentioned in the prior paragraph. Taking classes outside of one's comfort zone will force one into a situation in which you have no experience, which, in turn, gives a student the impetus to think, not just rely on their latent knowledge. A web design student is suddenly thrown into a music business class. She is not used to the subject, but then down the line, she gets a job designing a website for a recording studio, and understands the intricacies of the business enough to make an apt and successful website that exceeds their demands.
As considered in the first paragraph, there are many fields of industry that are becoming obsolete. There is a crisis in today's farm industries the world over. In the past, farming was a lucrative and necessary business. Today, we see countless farmer suicides. Why is this? Farmers, as a cause of geographical location, and convenience in regards to time, maybe never got the opportunity or felt the need to study further. In an analog world, this was not a huge problem. But today, without the tools that exist in a world of mechanical farming, GMOs and other farming technologial advances, there are lesser and lesser opportunities for farmers with analog knowledge of agriculture to stay employed.
In an academic department, is easy to be caught in an echo chamber of opinions if one does not seek outside influence. In light of recent events in technology, like the emergence of filter bubbles, and unreliable media, students have to learn to seek out the truth, and question the information they are given. For example, in the most recent election, there was a great deal of misinformation caused by the medium in which people received news. People were only receiving news that was relevant to their previous web searches and “liked” pages on social media. People were not questioning or verifying their sources as they were used to being fed information. Students that are encouraged to take courses outside of their field have a broader world view that organically leads to them processing information.
Today, formal education is not only encouraged, but almost indispensible to anyone who wants to secure a successful job and career. The debate of how this education is delivered is an important one. How can we best prepare the next generation for a future that holds at once unending progress, and the possibility of great destruction of opportunities? The practice of having students explore courses outside of their field of study encourages the critical thinking, open-mindedness, and creativity that is necessary to cultivate the next generation of working professionals.
- The following appeared on the Mozart School of Music Web site."The Mozart School of Music should be the first choice for parents considering enrolling their child in music lessons. First of all, the Mozart School welcomes youngsters at all ability and age 47
- 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 recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position 75
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 182, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...or paragraph. Taking classes outside of ones comfort zone will force one into a situ...
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Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...website that exceeds their demands. As considered in the first paragraph, th...
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Line 7, column 338, Rule ID: IN_REGARD_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'regarding' or 'with regard to'.
Suggestion: regarding; with regard to
... geographical location, and convenience in regards to time, maybe never got the opportunity o...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, may, so, then, for example, in general
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.5258426966 164% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.4196629213 32% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 14.8657303371 141% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 33.0505617978 100% => OK
Preposition: 85.0 58.6224719101 145% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 12.9106741573 170% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2834.0 2235.4752809 127% => OK
No of words: 553.0 442.535393258 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12477396022 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84932490483 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.00712181421 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 297.0 215.323595506 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.537070524412 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 897.3 704.065955056 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 10.0 1.77640449438 563% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 57.8863572627 60.3974514979 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.214285714 118.986275619 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.75 23.4991977007 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.92857142857 5.21951772744 37% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.151054614285 0.243740707755 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.031449605364 0.0831039109588 38% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0446529654477 0.0758088955206 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0766925690238 0.150359130593 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0431414225558 0.0667264976115 65% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 14.1392134831 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.09 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 158.0 100.480337079 157% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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