Universities should require students to take courses only within those fields they are interested in studying.

University's policy as to what courses students should take is an implicated and complicated issue. I disagree with the idea that universities should require students to take courses only within those fields they are interested in studying. However, I also understand the merit of concentrated study on fields students are especially interested in. In this essay, I'd like to present my idea with several examples.

First and foremostly, it is quite common that studying fields that initially seem unrelated to students' majors are in fact beneficial to understanding the field that students are mainly interested in. For example, computer science and biology seem not related to each other at first sight, but actually many facts and knowledge in the field of computer science is applicable to biology, thus learning biology is conducive for computer students and can broaden their career and vice versa. In this way, if universities took the policy, then even if it is not obvious, university students can find connections between their majors and other fields, resulting in deeper understanding of both two fields. Therefore I'd like to argue that student's study should not be limited within fields they are interested in.

Another reason for my claim of diversified study of university students is with the world of globalization and technical and scientific advances, it is crucial students for students to have a wide range of knowledge. In detail, for natural science students, it is crucial for them to acquire the basic knowledge of foreign languages, and communication skills, because they'll frequently communicate with foreign researchers and students in this highly globalized world, and for social science students, they'll also have a fundamental understanding of math and science to keep up with the world of rapid technological advancement. In this way, a diversified study will benefit students regardless of their main major.

Having said that I also understand the merit of requiring students to take courses only within those fields they are interested because if student concentrated their time and effort on fields that they are interested in, it is likely that they absorb the knowledge of their major faster, and thus become competitive researchers earlier compared to those who have wide curriculum. I'd like to propose that students choose between a comprehensive curriculum that ranges over many fields and an intensive curriculum that require students to take courses only within their major because some students who wish academic career and want to begin to engage themselves in researching faster while other want to seek other careers.

To recapitulate my ideas, for the aforementioned ideas, I basically favor the policy of late specialization, however concentrated study also has advantages, therefore I would suggest giving students the right to opt from them.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, however, if, so, then, therefore, thus, while, as to, for example, in fact

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 33.0505617978 136% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 68.0 58.6224719101 116% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2448.0 2235.4752809 110% => OK
No of words: 454.0 442.535393258 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.39207048458 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61598047577 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9385010086 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.466960352423 0.4932671777 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 767.7 704.065955056 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 20.2370786517 69% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 32.0 23.0359550562 139% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 109.438735074 60.3974514979 181% => OK
Chars per sentence: 174.857142857 118.986275619 147% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.4285714286 23.4991977007 138% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.28571428571 5.21951772744 140% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 5.13820224719 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
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Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.440535787133 0.243740707755 181% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.190883266639 0.0831039109588 230% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.212264140933 0.0758088955206 280% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.261021694386 0.150359130593 174% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.206116341875 0.0667264976115 309% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 20.2 14.1392134831 143% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.54 48.8420337079 63% => OK
smog_index: 13.0 7.92365168539 164% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 17.0 12.1743820225 140% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.57 12.1639044944 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.88 8.38706741573 106% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 11.2143820225 132% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
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Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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