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.
It is always a big question mark for universities, whether to make their degree programs more flexible by incorporating multiple different subjects from different fields, or if they should make the program rigid and train students in a single direction. The claim above states that universities should require students to take different courses from outside of their major, this claim is based on the reasoning that having knowledge of various academic disciplines is the best way to become truly educated. I strongly agree with this claim, and below
are a few reasons for the same.
Firstly, most fields currently are an amalgamation of different disciplines out of necessity. Most problems nowadays require knowledge of multiple different disciplines in order to tackle
them. Take for example the problems that electronic engineers are trying to solve of minimizing the sizes of transistors. The miniaturization process now has gone to such a small scale that
principles of quantum physics are needed to tackle them, in this case an electronic engineer who is educated only in the principles of electronics would be unable to solve this problem. An exposure to quantum physics is almost a mandatory requirement to tackle such problems. Considering such situations, having students take up an eclectic set of courses from different disciplines would train them to tackle such problems.
Further, the choice of major is an enigma to most young students, but it is one which weighs heavily for the students future. Considering this if students are exposed to multiple different disciplines right at the start of their degree, they would be better able to take decisions regarding which major to pursue, thus allowing them to switch majors if required. Lets say for example that a person with an aptitude in biomedical engineering joins an electrical engineering degree program. Now providing this student access to courses from biomedical science might allow him to realize his true interest in biomedical. Most young students coming out of hight school are not aware of the different avenues they can exlpore at the university level, thus giving them this exposure right in their sophpmore year would allow them to take better decisions.
Of course, some might argue that having students focus on one particular field might allow them to become better at solving problems related to that field. But, in the current world most
problems require multitudes of skills that are often found in different disciplines, and so it would be counterintuitive for students to focus on acquiring a narrow skill set in order to get better at solving problems in their field. A person can be considered truly educated only if he has a diverse set of skills from different disciplines.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'Let's'?
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, regarding, so, thus, for example, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 14.8657303371 34% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 33.0505617978 112% => OK
Preposition: 73.0 58.6224719101 125% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2338.0 2235.4752809 105% => OK
No of words: 448.0 442.535393258 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21875 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60065326758 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82543440199 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 215.323595506 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.482142857143 0.4932671777 98% => OK
syllable_count: 722.7 704.065955056 103% => 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: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => 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: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.0552630634 60.3974514979 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.529411765 118.986275619 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3529411765 23.4991977007 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0 5.21951772744 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 8.0 4.97078651685 161% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.278957334851 0.243740707755 114% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.096936840773 0.0831039109588 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.120590880481 0.0758088955206 159% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.118727290127 0.150359130593 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0925291732417 0.0667264976115 139% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 14.1392134831 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.1639044944 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 100.480337079 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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