To a large extent, I support the first view of point, in that it could make the students well-rounded and has profound influence on their future comprehensive development. Also, I contend that advocates of the latter opinion make a mistake by misinterpreting the college and higher education as occupation training education. More exactly, university should prepare the students not only for jobs, but also for life.
Admittedly, schools should be responsible for the career prospective of the students. For one thing, most students will face the practical problems in job hunting and it is one the functions of our higher education to prepare the students well for job markets. For another, the schools should work on the following aspects to realize their promise: they should run courses in which the students could learn the most popular technologies in industrial fields; they should also teach students the skills in the job interviews, like the social etiquettes.
However, the ultimate goal of college and higher education is not preparing the students for a satisfactory position, but making the students well-rounded. As is authoritatively defined, the functions of higher education lie in the following aspects: First, cultivating the ability of self-learning. This ability is quite important because the students will keep learning after graduation. Just as the old saying goes, "Give him a fish, you feed him for one day, show him how to fish, you feed him for the whole life", thus the university is a place where students will be taught the methods of fishing. Second, the ability of social adaptation. Thirdly, the critical and independent thinking style. Moreover, the students also have to be guided to form a healthy lifestyle, the habit of controlling themselves, and a positive attitude. Anyway, these could determine the quality of life more essentially than a job. These are not included in the occupation training schools, and seem to have little to do with the job hunting in the sort term, but they are quite essential for the long-run development. Thus taking a variety of courses out of fields of study to gain these abilities is a consequential part of college education.
Further, when studying in university, a student should pay more attention to the fundamental courses than the practical skills. This is because the update of new technology is so fast that the practical skills mastered at school may turn out to be useless when they graduate. The tutor of the youth, Mr. Li Kaifu in china, once encouraged the students to pay more attention to be fundamental courses by mentioning a survey of Microsoft engineers. Less than 10 percent of skills were from schools or their previous work and more than 90 percent are learned after entering Microsoft by themselves. This also coherently underlines the importance of ability of self-learning.
Moreover, the first contention is generally right, for the following two reasons.
On the one hand, courses out of the students' field of study make them well-rounded persons. When taking the music classes where they are taught to appreciate a symphony, the students will acquire the basic skills of appreciating music works, and many of them can be encouraged to release stress by being absorbed in a piece of symphony in future life. Similarly, sports classes like football, ping-pong, swimming, could help the students to be familiar with a specific sport, and more profoundly, the students can benefit from this sports all his life, which will keep them healthy and away from diseases.
On the other hand, the most frontier scientific researches are usually interdisciplinary, which challenge the traditional discipline division and badly need students with background of different majors. For example, robotics is a pure interdisciplinary field, in which the control theory, the machinery engineering knowledge, and biotic knowledge and computer science skills are necessary. Thus a student who is interested in robotics should prepare themselves with knowledge of all related disciplines. Also, students in medical science face new challenges. The traditional clinical knowledge is just one part of the modern medical science, and more than often nowadays, the great breakthrough and new applications depend on information technology. The popular practice of remote surgery and diagnosis is a good example, in which the developers have to very familiar with both computer programming and also the medical expertise. Thus, medical students who are interest in such high-tech applications are suggested to attend more computer courses.
Based on the analysis above, I tend to support the former one and abandon the latter.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, anyway, but, first, however, if, may, moreover, second, similarly, so, third, thirdly, thus, well, for example, of course, for one thing, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.5258426966 154% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 14.8657303371 155% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 33.0505617978 112% => OK
Preposition: 91.0 58.6224719101 155% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 12.9106741573 170% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 4016.0 2235.4752809 180% => OK
No of words: 748.0 442.535393258 169% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.36898395722 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.22968341894 4.55969084622 115% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98517407577 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 346.0 215.323595506 161% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.46256684492 0.4932671777 94% => OK
syllable_count: 1216.8 704.065955056 173% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Interrogative: 2.0 0.740449438202 270% => OK
Article: 17.0 4.99550561798 340% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 9.0 1.77640449438 507% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 33.0 20.2370786517 163% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.2461951368 60.3974514979 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.696969697 118.986275619 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6666666667 23.4991977007 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.87878787879 5.21951772744 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 8.0 4.97078651685 161% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 10.2758426966 195% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.264298201952 0.243740707755 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0649864259184 0.0831039109588 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0599176640861 0.0758088955206 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108366151765 0.150359130593 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0673901754207 0.0667264976115 101% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 14.1392134831 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.16 12.1639044944 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 181.0 100.480337079 180% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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