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

lt is not uncommon for some to argue that universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside his field of study. Proponents of this view would argue that only when a student learns comprehensively can he become fully educated. Yet within that very statement lies some unstated reasons that undermine this kind of thinking. In fact, from my prospective, I believe that the students don’t have to be required to take other causes outside their major to be educated well.

Although under some circumstance, studying additional courses has some advantages. For science and engineering students, if they get the knowledge from other subjects, they may be inspired to do interdisciplinary researching based on the common among different subjects, which possibly promote technological development. Another merit is that for students who have no idea about what major they truly like, they can have another chance to get to know other disciplines, in that case they may find what they are curious about and what they really like.

However, this requirement has more drawbacks which would conversely destroy some students academic learning. Firstly, It is inevitable that taking extra-curriculum classes will take students’ time and energy as they have to spare time to understand a new concept as well as apply the new knowledge into practice. As a consequence, they may have little time to study their major lessons, possibly leading to fails in exam, and even more seriously, they are unable to graduate.

Moreover, learning other courses might be a waste of time for most of the students as it is useless for students to study further and to find dream job. For example, if a student major in computer science is suggested to learn planting, since these two subjects have nothing in common, to study how to plant roses not only does not contribute to his computer learning, but also is not helpful for him to seek a job as a programmer. Although planting can be treated as a manner to relax after busy studying, in general, it is no use for students’ academic improvement.

Thirdly, if every students are asked to learn a variety of subjects, there will be no one to devote themselves into one specific field. As students’ time is limited, if they have to learn too many in a insufficient time, they will be distracted. In that case, everyone knows a little, but no one can tell the core knowledge of one subjects, which is totally a disaster in investigation. Without a comprehensive master of a course, one cannot make an insight into it and cannot make promotion to the theory as well as the experiment.
In conclusion, whether to request students to learn outside their major depend on their ability and demand. For most of the students, concentrating on what field they study will be more helpful for them to be fully educated.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, first, firstly, however, if, may, moreover, really, so, third, thirdly, well, for example, in conclusion, in fact, in general, kind of, of course, as well as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 33.0505617978 127% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2395.0 2235.4752809 107% => OK
No of words: 482.0 442.535393258 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.96887966805 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68556276237 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87741984178 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 237.0 215.323595506 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.491701244813 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 759.6 704.065955056 108% => 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
Article: 0.0 4.99550561798 0% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 3.10617977528 290% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.0194683389 60.3974514979 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.052631579 118.986275619 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.3684210526 23.4991977007 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.47368421053 5.21951772744 182% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.83258426966 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
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Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.302558153817 0.243740707755 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106850228282 0.0831039109588 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.128117735429 0.0758088955206 169% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.167135100634 0.150359130593 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.108642910551 0.0667264976115 163% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.1392134831 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.8420337079 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 100.480337079 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
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Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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