Some people think that universities should provide graduates with the knowledge and skills needed in the workplace. Others think that the true function of a university should be to give access to knowledge for its own sake, regardless of whether the cours

Certain people argue that university education should equip students with knowledge and skills required in the workplace. However, there are many who vocalize that the job of university is to provide education and not to prepare a graduate for an employer. In my context, I believe universities should focus on opening the minds of the students because bright minds are full of immense possibilities.

At present, it is distressing to see hundreds of fresh graduates step out of universities with optimism and enthusiasm- knocking on the doors of employers only to find out that they do not fit under the requirement criteria. Consequently, a number of youths have been depressed and lost their motivation. As such it is not unusual for the parents to demand that universities provide education that can be relied upon by their children in the real world.

However, on the other hand, universities are not built to train someone to be work ready. The basis of university education is to impart knowledge, and knowledge have no boundaries- it keeps expanding and transforming. Universities are there to guide you, but it cannot take your hand and lead you through the roads of life. It is on the hands of the student to embrace the knowledge and modify it to other forms that he/she might find useful to embark on one’s endeavor in life.

Hence, universities are bodies of knowledge that will show one the various paths that lay ahead, but to choose a definite path and to follow it with true belief depends entirely on the one who is destined to set on this journey.

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Average: 7.3 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, hence, however, if, so, thus, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 24.0651302605 108% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 41.998997996 110% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.3376753507 72% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1317.0 1615.20841683 82% => OK
No of words: 268.0 315.596192385 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.91417910448 5.12529762239 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04607285448 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82269892208 2.80592935109 101% => OK
Unique words: 153.0 176.041082164 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.570895522388 0.561755894193 102% => OK
syllable_count: 414.9 506.74238477 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 16.0721442886 68% => 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: 24.0 20.2975951904 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.016346359 49.4020404114 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.727272727 106.682146367 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3636363636 20.7667163134 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 7.06120827912 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.9879759519 125% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 3.4128256513 29% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.290968104582 0.244688304435 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104215235707 0.084324248473 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0727633919355 0.0667982634062 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.158494729148 0.151304729494 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0688443208789 0.056905535591 121% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 13.0946893788 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 50.2224549098 111% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.4159519038 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.58950901804 96% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 78.4519038076 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 9.78957915832 148% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.1190380762 115% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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