Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? All university students should be required to take basic science courses even if it is not the field of their study.
University education has been long taken as elite education where students can take four-year-time to delve deeper into subjects they major and become experts in respective fields. However, it is also advocated that university education has developed gradually toward mass education where “everyone can learn something about everything”. Therefore, when it comes to whether all undergraduates should be required to take basic science courses, people may take different standpoints. I myself prefer the idea that taking basic science courses should not be a requirement for all university students.
For one thing, university is the cradle of talents with specialties and interests in various fields. The whole reason of elective system in universities is to entitle students the rights and opportunities to choose courses that are relevant to their majors and those they are interested in. Basic science courses might be highly relevant and recommendable for students whose majors are science-related, whereas students majored in humanities, communication or fine arts may find taking science courses not that helpful in the fields they specialize in. So it is more advisable for undergraduates to choose courses in accordance with their own needs and preferences.
For another, while selecting courses, factors like whether those courses would be informative and enlightening, or whether those courses would help them with their future career choices would all be taken into consideration. Obviously, science-related jobs are not always listed as first priorities for newly graduates. Taking myself as an example, I majored in English language and literature. When I started hunting jobs, I preferred positions like English teachers, translators, editors and alike, all of which do not require science skills or knowledge. Therefore, taking basic science courses would probably be of little use to me, and also to many students like me.
Admittedly, it is beyond doubt that basic science courses are useful for many undergraduates. It is just not all majors and all jobs are overlapping in science aspects, so those courses would not be equally beneficial or helpful for all students. With limited time and energy, students should be advised to make reasonable arrangement of time and choose courses that they can benefit most.
From what I have discussed above, we may easily come to the conclusion that asking all university students to take basic science courses is not a feasible or favorable scheme.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, may, so, therefore, whereas, while, for one thing
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 15.1003584229 146% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 9.8082437276 153% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 13.8261648746 130% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 43.0788530466 79% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 52.1666666667 79% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 8.0752688172 248% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2136.0 1977.66487455 108% => OK
No of words: 388.0 407.700716846 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.50515463918 4.8611393121 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43821085614 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06154325179 2.67179642975 115% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 212.727598566 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.507731958763 0.524837075471 97% => OK
syllable_count: 675.0 618.680645161 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.51792114695 85% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => 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: 22.0 20.1344086022 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.4349526342 48.9658058833 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.647058824 100.406767564 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8235294118 20.6045352989 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.41176470588 5.45110844103 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.393872765281 0.236089414692 167% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.138155619112 0.076458572812 181% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0852823065886 0.0737576698707 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.237518484619 0.150856017488 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0224468950142 0.0645574589148 35% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 11.7677419355 135% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 58.1214874552 70% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.10430107527 183% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 10.1575268817 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.97 10.9000537634 137% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.76 8.01818996416 109% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 86.8835125448 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 10.002688172 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.0537634409 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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