Claim: Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's major field of study.
Reason: Acquiring knowledge of various academic disciplines is the best way to become truly educated.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.
Over the past few decades, universities' tuition fee has been rising at a rapid rate. Upon graduation, students find themselves under the burden of massive debts. The prompt claims that every student must pick a number of diverse subjects outside the student's major in order to become "truly" educated. However, I mostly disagree with the prompt because of two reasons, which I will elucidate below.
First of all, education, like I mentioned earlier, is becoming costlier and costlier with each passing day that puts students in huge debts. Almost all universities charge tuition per credit hour. Spending money, or rather wasting money, on studying subjects that are unrelated to one's major is not a propitious thing to do for many students. For example, if a student's major is computer science, then a university forcing that student to do courses on, say political science sounds way off, if not absurd. Forcing a student to take impertinent courses in the name of exposing them to diverse courses is only bound to frustrate rather than making him/her "truly" educated. Also, how would you define "truly" educated? It is highly subjective to say at least. For me, if one knows very well the stuff related to one's field or discipline one is pursuing, I would consider that person truly educated.
Secondly, if a student has identified his/her interest in a particular field of study, then being forced by universities to take other courses would only serve to distract the student from achieving his/her goals. That student would have to devote his/her valuable time on studying subjects he/she is not interested in rather than focusing on subjects he/she is truly passionate about. If such a thing as claimed by the prompt is implemented at universities, then possibly some students might even give up on their studies, let alone being "truly" educated individuals. And I don't think universities would want that to happen to their students.
However, I do concede that there are certain scenarios where encouraging students to pursue diverse courses initially might be an auspicious step. Exploring a diverse set of courses would better help students in finding their true interest and passion. But even in this case, universities should only encourage, not force them to take diverse courses.
In conclusion, I would like to say that universities should consider the caveats mentioned earlier before implementing anything claimed by the prompt. The ramifications far outweigh any potential benefits that the claim might have on the lives of students.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 360, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a student' or simply 'students'?
Suggestion: a student; students
...o do for many students. For example, if a students major is computer science, then a unive...
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Line 3, column 832, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...ne knows very well the stuff related to ones field or discipline one is pursuing, I ...
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Line 5, column 587, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...truly' educated individuals. And I dont think universities would want that to h...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, well, at least, for example, in conclusion, of course, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 14.8657303371 40% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 58.6224719101 102% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2193.0 2235.4752809 98% => OK
No of words: 414.0 442.535393258 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.29710144928 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51076378781 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94447218543 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 215.323595506 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.553140096618 0.4932671777 112% => OK
syllable_count: 676.8 704.065955056 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 47.2777771116 60.3974514979 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.428571429 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7142857143 23.4991977007 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.21951772744 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.282914563648 0.243740707755 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0773600135459 0.0831039109588 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.054248931128 0.0758088955206 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.152580463854 0.150359130593 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0481521891863 0.0667264976115 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.1392134831 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.46 12.1639044944 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.2 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 100.480337079 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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