Whether the college faculty should spend time working outside in the academic world is certainly a debatable issue. While, it might help professors have a pragmatic edge to their courses, preparing the students for the industry; on the other hand it serves as a distraction to the research undertaken by the professors. While a little professional experience might help, I cannot concur with making it mandatory, as suggest by the author of issue.
A majority of the professors and faculty in a college are researching in their respective fields. The courses they teach, normally, are germane to their respective field of research. Students takes a studied decision when they apply to a course under a certain faculty. A student might have known about the practical implication of the course in the professional world, or she could have known about the illustrious work the professor had done in the field. In both of the cases, the professor does not need to have know-how of the workings outside the academic world. In the former case, the student itself will accrue the knowledge about the profession she wants to choose. For the latter case, student herself might be more inclined towards research work which might render have profession know how useless.
Although many companies now-a-days, have a positive outlook towards research and development, it does not guarantee the freedom that is required to do research. Company projects are stringently timed. They, also, have a keen focus on profitability of the research. Hence, research conducted by these companies have a parochial scope. Now, even if a professor did some work under one of these companies, this myopic outlook of research might add little to the his academic course. Moreover, many subtle things take up most of the time when you are working in a professional environment. A employee have to interface with business units, follow a certain process of producing the intended product, work in a certain time limit, undergo meetings that have little to do with actual work etcetera. This menial and mundane tasks take up a lot of time, which could have used productively otherwise.
In addition to this, there are many fields who are still in rudimentary stages. These fields are not, as-of-now have professional world counterpart. For example, there might be some new technology regarding information transformation, which cannot be profitably implemented. It makes little sense for a professor to undergo a professional tenure for such a field. Also, there are fields in which getting professional experience is not as state forward as it may seem. For example, in psychology, recreating the actual world scenarios is the only way, to understand a specific factor affecting a population sample. It makes sense to use findings of a psychology research in implementing some idea used by a company, example Facebook. Yet, these specific result cannot be observed in outside environment. Hence, it makes little to no sense for psychology professors to pursue work outside academic career.
In conclusion, due to above-mentioned reasons; it is imprudent to say that universities should mandate work outside academic aspects of a field for a professor. Proper considerations should be taken, like whether a field requires such a pragmatic view, or if the students will even benefit from inculcating these professional nuances in their courses.
- Colleges and universities should require all faculty to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach. 54
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, if, look, may, moreover, regarding, so, still, while, for example, in conclusion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.4196629213 153% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 14.8657303371 34% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 33.0505617978 100% => OK
Preposition: 75.0 58.6224719101 128% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2875.0 2235.4752809 129% => OK
No of words: 548.0 442.535393258 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.24635036496 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.83832613839 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94696390812 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 263.0 215.323595506 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.479927007299 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 905.4 704.065955056 129% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.8265311659 60.3974514979 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.1379310345 118.986275619 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8965517241 23.4991977007 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.86206896552 5.21951772744 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 16.0 4.83258426966 331% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.230522747633 0.243740707755 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.064241532991 0.0831039109588 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0861409817586 0.0758088955206 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136644262854 0.150359130593 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0520312074735 0.0667264976115 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 14.1392134831 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.17 12.1639044944 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.48 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 137.0 100.480337079 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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