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

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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 course is useful to an employer.
What, in your opinion, should be the main function of a university?

This is often a dichotomy that whether the role of university is to prepare students for specific employment or it should simply educate irrespective of any proper vocation. I believe that universities should provide both functions for students. This essay will first discuss that vocational education is essential and then it will discuss the role of more traditional tertiary education.

On the one hand, tertiary education should impart the knowledge and skills which are mandatory for certain jobs. The mainstay of this belief is that majority of students have specific prospect in their minds when they enroll at university. For instance, medicine, dentistry and engineering are opt by those pupils who wish to make career in these profession. Hence, this form of education compliments more career oriented students.

On the contrary, university should provide traditional education regardless considering any particular vocation. The main reason is that there are some students who do not aim at specific profession which they would undertake upon graduation. Thus, the non-vocational courses are suitable for them, for example, philosophy and humanitarian sciences because these subjects will simply enhance their intellectual abilities. It is likely that if these pupils are forced to study practical curriculum, they will be simply disillusioned or distracted as they do not find any point of interest. For example, it is reported by The Time magazine that only 50% of law students wanted to become lawyers upon completing their education.

In conclusion, I believe that role of university is to prepare graduates for better workforce and impart knowledge. The students could choose the suitable learning according to their own preferences.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 295, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'opted'.
Suggestion: opted
...medicine, dentistry and engineering are opt by those pupils who wish to make career...
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Line 3, column 342, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this profession' or 'these professions'?
Suggestion: this profession; these professions
...those pupils who wish to make career in these profession. Hence, this form of education complime...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 165, Rule ID: AFFORD_VBG[1]
Message: This verb is used with infinitive: 'to accord'.
Suggestion: to accord
...ents could choose the suitable learning according to their own preferences.
^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, hence, if, so, then, thus, for example, for instance, in conclusion, on the contrary

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 7.85571142285 127% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 10.4138276553 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 7.30460921844 178% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 24.0651302605 129% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 27.0 41.998997996 64% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.3376753507 144% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1493.0 1615.20841683 92% => OK
No of words: 268.0 315.596192385 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.57089552239 5.12529762239 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.04607285448 4.20363070211 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96428159252 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 176.041082164 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.567164179104 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 474.3 506.74238477 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.2975951904 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.9245426727 49.4020404114 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.642857143 106.682146367 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1428571429 20.7667163134 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.5 7.06120827912 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 3.4128256513 205% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.182346372645 0.244688304435 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0717091005874 0.084324248473 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0812640473774 0.0667982634062 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112721898327 0.151304729494 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0315246043842 0.056905535591 55% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 13.0946893788 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.27 50.2224549098 70% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 11.3001002004 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.03 12.4159519038 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.06 8.58950901804 105% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 78.4519038076 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 9.78957915832 128% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.1190380762 95% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.7795591182 121% => 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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