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.
The main purpose of getting a university education is to be learned, to be educated, that purpose is ultimately defeated when students are only restricted to taking courses within their major. To prevent this, it is advisable that students broaden their knowledge by taking courses outside their field of study. This however comes with a risk of them loosing focus on the basic knowledge requirement of their primary field. As such The claim and the reasoning on which it is based is logical, however, there should be a limit to the number of external course students take.
Students should take courses outside their majors to remove knowledge gaps in their reasoning. In real life knowledge is not compartmentalized, for students to effectively function as members of society, in their chosen career field, they must be capable of applying interdisciplinary reasoning. A pharmaceutical scientist doing research on malaria in a research institution is required to have knowledge in about the infection cycle of the parasite; understand step through which the body is infected and understand the mechanism of action of antimalarial drugs. These require knowledge in physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology, in addition to basic knowledge on research methodology and statistical analysis. This illustrates that they must be broad-minded in their reasoning. This is best achieve if they take courses outside their basic fields.
Taking external courses also improved their ability to reason outside their field and effectively communicate with experts in other career fields. A Financial analyst working in a pharmaceutical industry needs to know the supply chain cycle from acquiring raw materials to selling the finished drugs in the market and how market forces affects laws of demand and supply. This equips him with the knowledge required to make efficiently analyse the finances of the industry diligently make financial recommendations during board managerial meetings. This knowledge is best gotten in university through extracurricular courses and even summer internships to widen perspective and understand how to apply theoretical knowledge in real life.
However, as plausible as these reasoning and claims are, caution must be exerted so that students are not overwhelmed by the onerous workload as a result of extra courses taken. Another risk is that students become distracted and develop more interest in the supplementary courses compared to their course of their majors. Therefore there a limit should be set on the number of courses students are allowed to take; this limit established a healthy balance for the students to that the entire purpose of their education is not defeated.
In conclusion, although, the entire purpose of university is to acquire career knowledge. But to be educated, students need to acquire supplementary knowledge from other fields. This is best achieved by taking courses outside their majors, but there should be a limit to number of extra courses taken. It is through this that students can be certified as “Educated’.
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... this that students can be certified as “Educated’.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, so, therefore, in addition, in conclusion, of course, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.5258426966 149% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.4196629213 72% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 33.0505617978 124% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 79.0 58.6224719101 135% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2611.0 2235.4752809 117% => OK
No of words: 479.0 442.535393258 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.4509394572 5.05705443957 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67825486995 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04049032159 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 215.323595506 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.450939457203 0.4932671777 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 817.2 704.065955056 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.3444378662 60.3974514979 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.333333333 118.986275619 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8095238095 23.4991977007 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.2380952381 5.21951772744 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 7.80617977528 77% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.305737529759 0.243740707755 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.112660712978 0.0831039109588 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0610596881506 0.0758088955206 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.206026649111 0.150359130593 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0499790163205 0.0667264976115 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 14.1392134831 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.8420337079 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.1743820225 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.63 12.1639044944 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.98 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 129.0 100.480337079 128% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.