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 and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
University education strongly influences the course of a person's life. Therefore, it is paramount to expose university students to many topics and worldviews through a varied selection of courses. Such students will be more adept in dealing with the problems our society faces as well as bring novel ideas into their field of study.
Navigating current political discourse is difficult. It seems that studying only one subject, be it the american literature or computer science, deos not suffice when engaging in debates, as the complex problems we are facing require complex solutions spanning many fields. I believe it is the duty of university to produce graduates who can draw on their knowledge of arts, humanities and sciences to propose such solutions. A computer scientist should be able to asses the dangers of a new technology he or she is developing in terms of psychology or social sciences. Likewise, a journalist should avoid stoking unwarranted fears about a new invention in artificial intelligence by having an elementary knowledge of maths and statistics. We can only achieve this by sacrificing some of the students' rights to choose their curriculum, as they need to spend a considerable amount of time studying subjects peripheral to their major.
The most obvious conterargument, especially applicable in countries without free public colleges, is that students, who pay huge amounts of money and sacrifice many years of their life to acquire a degree, should have a complete freedom in choosing what they study as long as it fulfils the bare minimum for graduating in a field of their choice. I disagree with treting the college degree as a commodity. Our society should hold college graduates in high standard, as some of them will be the future leaders in academia, business and politics. Putting a college degree on your resume should signify that you passed a comprehensive selection of courses making you equipped to tackle all sorts of challenges, not that you only studied topics that you found interesting at the time or that were the easiest to understand. Discounting on the requirements for graduating college would not only lower the trust of emplyers in college degrees, but also hurt the graduates ability to come up with new ideas.
As a scientist, I can attest that finding a new insight in my work often requires a completely different angle of thinking. However, viewing a problem from a new perspective is difficult because we are enclosed in a bubble--our field of interest. One can often break through the bubble by studying a completely different subject. Mastering a new field involves understanding novel abstract concepts, which can in turn provide the inspiration needed to come up with breakthrough solutions celebrated for their astounding originality. The ability to link high-level concepts from different field should be cultivated throughout college education, as it is the best time--and perhaps the only time--one can devote most of their waking hours to in-depth study of many disciplines.
To conclude, studying a wide range of courses at the university brings numerous benefits such being able to dicuss and propose solutions to complex issues we face as a society as well as stimulating the creativity to come up with unique solutions to long-standing problems. Therefore, the choice of courses should not be left entirely to the students, the university should enforce appropriate variety.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 58, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'persons'' or 'person's'?
Suggestion: persons'; person's
...ion strongly influences the course of a persons life. Therefore, it is paramount to exp...
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Line 3, column 641, Rule ID: NEW_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'invention'.
Suggestion: invention
...avoid stoking unwarranted fears about a new invention in artificial intelligence by having an...
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Line 3, column 781, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...We can only achieve this by sacrificing some of the students rights to choose their curricu...
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Line 5, column 219, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[3]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'complete freedom'.
Suggestion: complete freedom
...r life to acquire a degree, should have a complete freedom in choosing what they study as long as ...
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Line 5, column 957, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'graduates'' or 'graduate's'?
Suggestion: graduates'; graduate's
...s in college degrees, but also hurt the graduates ability to come up with new ideas. A...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, likewise, so, therefore, well, of course, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 43.0 33.0505617978 130% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 82.0 58.6224719101 140% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2908.0 2235.4752809 130% => OK
No of words: 555.0 442.535393258 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.23963963964 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.85370353223 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97991327497 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 294.0 215.323595506 137% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52972972973 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 915.3 704.065955056 130% => 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: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 74.5477064987 60.3974514979 123% => OK
Chars per sentence: 138.476190476 118.986275619 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.4285714286 23.4991977007 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.61904761905 5.21951772744 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
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: 0.191005514424 0.243740707755 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.054478037233 0.0831039109588 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0419002937746 0.0758088955206 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110769934231 0.150359130593 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0363074137774 0.0667264976115 54% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 14.1392134831 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.41 12.1639044944 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.71 8.38706741573 116% => OK
difficult_words: 168.0 100.480337079 167% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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.