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?
People have different views about whether or not it is mandatory for higher institutions to equip graduates with relevant skillsets required in the work domain. Although, some argue that the responsibility of a university is just to give graduates an opportunity to gain knowledge in their various courses, I put forward that it is indeed pertinent for universities to train individuals with knowledge that will be useful in a job.
A major advantage is that it would prepare graduates for day to day activities in a prospective workplace and an increase in employability prospects. With background skills and knowledge, graduates will be more mentally and physically ready to contribute effectively in a work environment. Thus, this will eliminate fear and increase their confidence level, not only when applying for a job vacancy but in handling daily objectives in a workplace. For instance, according to a 2019 report from the Nigerian Job Employers Association (J.E.A), 90% of labour employers give jobs to individuals who have experience and the relevant knowledge and skillset relating to a particular job, as they believe these individuals will be able to fit in more easily to their expectations. Hence the need for higher institutions to get graduates in line with the skills required in a work domain.
Others, on the other hand, argue that the mere focus for universities is an opportunity for graduates to get skills and knowledge, for reasons such that universities are simply following the principles of the curricula that they are used to from time immemorial. Most university professors adhere to teaching these curriculum objectives which entails strictly the subject area knowledge and not diverse skillsfor a workplace.
In my view, even though, some people opine that the only objective for universities is to provide knowledge for graduates, i submit that it is imperative for universities to teach graduates the necessary skills and knowledge that will be required in a work environment as it will help them get ready mentally and physically in their day to day office task and challenges and a higher chance in getting job employment. Thus, this undoubtably should be the key objective of any university.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, hence, if, so, thus, for instance, in my view, 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: 9.0 7.85571142285 115% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 10.4138276553 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 7.30460921844 178% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 24.0651302605 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 45.0 41.998997996 107% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 8.3376753507 84% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1878.0 1615.20841683 116% => OK
No of words: 358.0 315.596192385 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.24581005587 5.12529762239 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34981470047 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.10966502075 2.80592935109 111% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 176.041082164 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.491620111732 0.561755894193 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 600.3 506.74238477 118% => 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: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => 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: 32.0 20.2975951904 158% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 99.0471129237 49.4020404114 200% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 170.727272727 106.682146367 160% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.5454545455 20.7667163134 157% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.27272727273 7.06120827912 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.01903807615 80% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.304610976273 0.244688304435 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.118609673524 0.084324248473 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0665710113986 0.0667982634062 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.209036056241 0.151304729494 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0498325024125 0.056905535591 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.6 13.0946893788 150% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.54 50.2224549098 61% => OK
smog_index: 13.0 7.44779559118 175% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 17.0 11.3001002004 150% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.76 12.4159519038 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.88 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 78.4519038076 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 9.78957915832 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 10.1190380762 146% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.7795591182 139% => 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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