some people think universities should provide knowledge and skills related to a future career; others think the true function of university is to give access to knowledge for its own sake. what is your opinion of the main function of university?
The main purpose of tertiary education has engendered drastic controversy among public. While some people agree that university courses should be concerned with employment potentials, I am on board with the opinion that university education should mainly focus on the knowledge itself.
The reason I advocate for assimilating knowledge regardless of the employment trend would be its contribution to students’ creativity, as they are encouraged to be open-minded and think outside of the box. To illustrate, when courses are devised based on the demand of job market, students receive education that are limited to the occupational needs, less likely to challenge the status quo. By contrast, if young minds are encouraged to base their learning in any context, more chances are that they would relate various studies and information, in which way cultivate creativity and come up with novel ideas. Such ability is valued highly in today’s fast-changing working environment and would give students a competitive edge over others in search of jobs.
Some may argue that if universities only consider academic subjects and do not take the job market into account, their students would lack the essential knowledge and skills, and consequently fail to land a job after college. They believe students would feel more comfortable and confident in dealing with work-related problems, when they have access to relevant education in university. However, for me, such arguments could not hold water, as we are now living in a fast-changing world, and it is hard for university to predict precisely about the employment trend as well as the latest knowledge. The knowledge students learnt in university might be outdated in workplace. So it would be a waste of time and resource if university focus on offering curriculums based on employment needs.
To conclude, I believe devising courses based on job market is not suitable for today’s fast changing working environment, and the main function of tertiary education should be to develop various abilities in students to help them better embrace the challenges in the working environment.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 10, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'argues'.
Suggestion: argues
... others in search of jobs. Some may argue that if universities only consider acad...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, however, if, may, so, well, while, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 10.4138276553 106% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 7.30460921844 110% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 24.0651302605 87% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 41.998997996 117% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 8.3376753507 180% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1809.0 1615.20841683 112% => OK
No of words: 336.0 315.596192385 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.38392857143 5.12529762239 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28139028586 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97322322321 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 176.041082164 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.565476190476 0.561755894193 101% => OK
syllable_count: 567.9 506.74238477 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.10420841683 285% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => 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: 28.0 20.2975951904 138% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 59.6854602618 49.4020404114 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 150.75 106.682146367 141% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.0 20.7667163134 135% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.33333333333 7.06120827912 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.67935871743 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.222703136943 0.244688304435 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0814547380251 0.084324248473 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0699392126567 0.0667982634062 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137653244218 0.151304729494 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0667042244797 0.056905535591 117% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.9 13.0946893788 137% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.6 50.2224549098 69% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 11.3001002004 136% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.22 12.4159519038 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.54 8.58950901804 111% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 78.4519038076 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 16.0 9.78957915832 163% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.1190380762 130% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.7795591182 148% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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