Universities should require students to take courses only within those fields they are interested in studying.
University curriculum is one of the most important aspects of undergraduate and graduate education. It determines what courses a particular student will take which in turn will determine the knowledge a student will possess when he graduates. Some courses are vital for student development even though they might not be the most sought after courses. The author of the prompt states that students should only take courses that interest them, which is a very one-sided statement. I personally believe that universities should make certain courses mandatory and also give students some flexibility in selecting courses that they have an affinity towards.
Some courses like Computer programming require certain prerequisites like calculus and linear algebra. So all students pursuing programming should be mandatorily made to take these prerequisite courses even if a particular student is not willing to take these courses. This way, the student can easily understand what is being taught in higher-level Computer science courses like Data structure and object-oriented programming.
Certain humanities courses like psychology and philosophy are very important for the holistic development of the student, even though students pursuing STEM subjects are generally not interested in such courses. In such cases, universities should make it mandatory for students to take certain credits for humanities coursework. This results in the all-round development of the students.
In conclusion, we can say that universities should give some flexibility to students while selecting humanities coursework but make sure that students complete certain mandatory courses. Also, universities should give electives options to students to pursue courses that lie outside of the domain of their major but are interested in pursuing. This will ensure the all-round development of students graduating and make them responsible citizens.
- Undergraduate students majoring in Business or in the Sciences should not be required to take any courses in the Humanities since those courses won’t benefit their future careers. 50
- Understanding the past is of little use to those in current positions of leadership. 83
- Universities should require students to take courses only within those fields they are interested in studying. 50
- Technology while apparently aimed to simplify our lives only makes our lives more complicated 50
- The best leaders are those who encourage feedback from the people whom they lead. 50
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so, while, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.5258426966 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 33.0505617978 67% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 58.6224719101 51% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1650.0 2235.4752809 74% => OK
No of words: 283.0 442.535393258 64% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.83038869258 5.05705443957 115% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10153676581 4.55969084622 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02089763521 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 215.323595506 66% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.501766784452 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 513.0 704.065955056 73% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59117977528 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.0092463803 60.3974514979 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.857142857 118.986275619 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2142857143 23.4991977007 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.78571428571 5.21951772744 53% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 5.13820224719 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.341526703235 0.243740707755 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.12960295544 0.0831039109588 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0755487651245 0.0758088955206 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.222842613457 0.150359130593 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0601989661485 0.0667264976115 90% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 14.1392134831 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.26 48.8420337079 70% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.5 12.1743820225 111% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.53 12.1639044944 136% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.59 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 100.480337079 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 11.8971910112 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 17.0 11.7820224719 144% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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