Colleges and universities should require all faculty to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach. Write a response in which you discuss your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider the possible consequences of implementing the policy and explain how these consequences shape your position.
It is not a newly-proposed idea that professors in the university should spend some time working in the industry or other non-academic institutions relevant to their field of interest. I agree with this viewpoint to some degree, but hold that it should be well regulated and organized, otherwise it will be a harm rather than an opportunity for the academy.
There are a myriads of advantages for professors to work outside the university for some time. First, it will ensure the ongoing research in the lab would not be so irrelevant to the real world that have no practical use at all. Moreover, by working in the industry for some time, the professor will get better knowledge about what kind of students the employers are looking for in the job market. This will give the professor more idea about the lecture design, so the students would benefit from it.
Saying this though, these benefits might not be equal to every subject. While it is for sure beneficial for a Computer Science professor to have some experience in working in a software company, it might not be as much necessary for a history teacher to work outside the academic field. In fact, it depends on the nature of the subject. If a subject is initially set for solving a practical problem, like engineering or criminology, then it might be a great idea to make the professor work outside the academic world. However, if the very aim of the subject is to fulfil human’s curiosity, like mathematics or history, then the necessity of putting the professor in the real world would be lower.
At the same time, there might well be some disadvantages of the suggestion. The first thing we may need to consider might be the professor’s availability of time. It is apparently not a great idea to ask a professor to cease his/her research project to work outside, as that might be just impractical for some projects which need to be done in a certain period of time. Consequently, the professors must work part-time in a company. This may give them a lot of pressure, thus harm their devotion to the academic research or teaching activities. Besides, the university also need to take into account the risk that if the professor get well-paid in the company, they will get a feeling of imbalance after returning to the laboratory, thus their working motivation would be hampered.
In conclusion, the suggestion that university faculty should be required to spend some time working outside the academic world amount to a two-sided sword. The effectiveness depends on their field of interest as well as some other factors. Therefore, I would argue that the university should carry out the policy with a degree of carefulness, to maximize the benefit while minimize the harm it may cause.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, apparently, besides, but, consequently, first, however, if, look, may, moreover, so, then, therefore, thus, well, while, in conclusion, in fact, kind of, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.5258426966 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 27.0 12.4196629213 217% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 6.0 14.8657303371 40% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 58.6224719101 113% => OK
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: 2303.0 2235.4752809 103% => OK
No of words: 471.0 442.535393258 106% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88959660297 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65859790218 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85717840362 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 215.323595506 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.456475583864 0.4932671777 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 740.7 704.065955056 105% => 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% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.8635580326 60.3974514979 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.15 118.986275619 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.55 23.4991977007 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.5 5.21951772744 163% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.196488156024 0.243740707755 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0713967356408 0.0831039109588 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0701308569883 0.0758088955206 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131369898429 0.150359130593 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.034293490423 0.0667264976115 51% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.1392134831 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.8420337079 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.1743820225 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.38 12.1639044944 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.0 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 100.480337079 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 11.8971910112 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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