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.
Most of the companies now a days prefer multitalented dexterous people having knowledge of various subjects. Acquiring knowledge of various academic discipline obviously makes a person skilled, but is it the best way to become truly educated? The above prompt claims that universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student’s major field of study. In my opinion, I strongly disagree with the suggestion and argue that students should have set goals to achieve success and in order to do so they should fully devote their time, money and other resources on the corresponding field of study.
“ Jack of all trades, master of none”. Gaining knowledge of various academic disciplines superficially rather than focusing on one makes a person generalist and not a specialist. For instance, Albert Einstein was one of the most remarkable and gifted scientist of the 20th century. His theory of relativity and photoelectric effect, for which he was awarded noble prize in physics, completely changed the way we perceived the known universe. It is hard to believe that that such a brilliant person flunked in most of the subjects like history, English, arts etc., except science and maths. He soon realized his potential and left the school and later mastered physics and mathematics. Other geniuses, like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg too dropped out of college because other academic subjects were providing hindrance in their major field of study. They focused on the subject they liked and not on the subjects made mandatory by the university. Can we say they are not truly educated? Thousands of students graduate from college but how many of them have what it takes to be a specialist.
Additionally, most of the majors like engineering and medicine require a lot of diligence and are quite difficult in themselves. Lot of credit courses are need to be completed in order to fulfill universities requirement for degree. Now by forcing them to take classes for other academic disciplines might affect their performance on major field of study. Also, the more time you spend on completing the degree the more money is spent. College already charges an extremely large amount and does not take into account the other expenses that students have to pay (such as room and board, food, and books), adding on extra semesters, quarters, or even years because a student have to take general education classes instead of strictly major classes is an unfair system to put a student through.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so, for instance, of course, such as, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 33.0505617978 82% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 58.6224719101 104% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2122.0 2235.4752809 95% => OK
No of words: 415.0 442.535393258 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.11325301205 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51348521516 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76489198113 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 234.0 215.323595506 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.563855421687 0.4932671777 114% => OK
syllable_count: 669.6 704.065955056 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 68.2959990798 60.3974514979 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.684210526 118.986275619 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8421052632 23.4991977007 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.47368421053 5.21951772744 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.97078651685 60% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => 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: 0.337412695886 0.243740707755 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0894296465522 0.0831039109588 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.1175851567 0.0758088955206 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.248744263478 0.150359130593 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.147674728991 0.0667264976115 221% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.1392134831 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.83 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 100.480337079 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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