Colleges and universities should require all faculty to spend time working outside the academic world in professions relevant to the courses they teach.

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Colleges and universities are institutions of higher learning that provide both student and faculty with valuable knowledge in all fields. Faculties in colleges or universities are usually composed of professors, assistant and associate professors, lecturers, and other teaching and research staff in every department or school in the institution. They all specialize in various research areas and impart their students with vast knowledge and skills in their specific majors or programs. To purport that these academic institutions should require their faculty to spend time working outside the academic world is considerably superficial.

Faculty spend a lot of time in lecture halls, libraries, laboratories, seminars and other areas doing research and advancing there knowledge and skills in order to accurately interpret and relay information to their students. They also have to write grants and publish their research to the general public. These activities are time-consuming, repetitive and require effort to manage, thus giving them little or no time to venture into other fields outside academia. Part of university professors income usually come from their published work. Working in other professions may therefore jeopardize parts of their income.
It is probable that most of the faculty members have families and need to maintain their social life. As much as the idea of them working in other professions seems valuable, it is in fact not feasible to balance both their demanding academic profession with another. For example, students often seek help from their professors during unofficial hours to ask questions about content they do not understand in class. This would prove difficult if the professor was working in a different place.
Finally, faculties are typically composed of individuals who have specialized in certain areas of research and scarcely need to improve their knowledge outside academia. This is because universities and colleges provide resources necessary for them to sharpen their knowledge and skills in both theoretical and practical disciplines. They also have special chambers set up in libraries and other areas to help them interact with others of different departments and share knowledge. It would therefore be a waste of limited resources to require all faculty to spend time working in other professions. Instead, it would be beneficial to implement programs that support faculty learning and interests to enrich their work and help them in teaching and lecturing their students.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, if, may, so, therefore, thus, as to, for example, in fact

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.5258426966 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 27.0 14.8657303371 182% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.3162921348 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 35.0 33.0505617978 106% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 58.6224719101 102% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2152.0 2235.4752809 96% => OK
No of words: 386.0 442.535393258 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.57512953368 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43248042346 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8789739433 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 215.323595506 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.507772020725 0.4932671777 103% => OK
syllable_count: 667.8 704.065955056 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 0.0 4.99550561798 0% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.1459266635 60.3974514979 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.555555556 118.986275619 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4444444444 23.4991977007 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0 5.21951772744 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.311771989836 0.243740707755 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104263937061 0.0831039109588 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0905387295786 0.0758088955206 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.20884112716 0.150359130593 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.08919686423 0.0667264976115 134% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 14.1392134831 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.8420337079 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.08 12.1639044944 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.14 8.38706741573 109% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 100.480337079 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.7820224719 136% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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