Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student’s field of study.
Courses containing various kinds of skills and aspects of knowledge indeed enable students in university to be more competitive in the increasingly fierce job market, but does the requirement that every student should attend those courses really matter? From my perspective, they are unnecessary. Only courses don’t suffice to generate a better opportunity, but the real ability of students to use knowledge should be improved in university.
Energy is limited for a student who has already had lots of classes. Extra courses may be a burden for them, and also students can be more exhausted so that they can’t concentrate themselves in necessary classes. Usually, a university requires a freshman or a sophomore to choose courses which include more than thirty credits in each semester, that is, a student needs to attend more than ten classes each week. Given the time spent in class and the homework assigned by each teacher, no student can safely claim that they can exactly enjoy themselves every day. Too many courses may deprive students of precious time, disperse concentrations, and even annoy students.
Besides, not every university has the ability to open so many various courses for students. For instance, in a highly specialized university which majors in technology, such as physics, engineering, philosophy and economics can be difficult to conduct considering the limited teachers. In addition, if no teacher is able to teach in a quite unfamiliar class like literature and history, then providing these courses for students cannot be achieved. If such courses are given, the reputation of the university may be undermined with more unimportant courses. What’s more, to take more courses may add up to the whole tuition fee for each student, students might resist paying more for the classes they think unnecessary and useless in the university.
Some people may hold that taking various courses offer students more opportunities in hunting a highly paid job. They attribute the success in finding a satisfactory job to the courses taken in university. And they take it for granted that courses outside the students’ major will guarantee the potential ability. However, a satisfying job requires all kinds of abilities other than what courses a student has chosen. Students will encounter difficulties after graduation, and they are supposed to strive to overcome them by themselves in society. Thus, courses might be not as useful as thought by those people. Moreover, a fact should be taken into consideration that even if a student attends such a class, no one can promise he or she will focus on the classes and master the knowledge well enough to proficiently utilize it. There is a great chance that the student might be distracted by the vapid subject or the unappealing topics.
To conclude, while taking a variety of courses may broaden students’ horizons, we should bear in mind the exact percent of knowledge got by each student in such courses and the necessities of providing such courses. For most, there is no need to take courses which are not included in one’s major courses.
- Some people believe that it is best to accept a bad situation, such as an unsatisfactory job or shortage of money. Others argue that it is better to try and improve such situations.Discuss both these views and give your own opinion. 73
- Governments should spend money on railways rather than roads. 56
- It is primarily through our identification with social groups that we define ourselves. 58
- Living in a country where you have to speak a foreign language can cause serious social problems, as well as practical problems. 61
- University should accept equal numbers of male and female students in every subject.To what extent do you agree or disagree? 73
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, however, if, may, moreover, really, so, then, thus, well, while, for instance, in addition, of course, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 24.0 12.4196629213 193% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 14.8657303371 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 33.0505617978 88% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 58.6224719101 99% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2648.0 2235.4752809 118% => OK
No of words: 507.0 442.535393258 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22287968442 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74517233601 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89091592641 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 255.0 215.323595506 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.502958579882 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 837.0 704.065955056 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.5046780046 60.3974514979 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.130434783 118.986275619 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0434782609 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.65217391304 5.21951772744 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.407581031185 0.243740707755 167% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.129666893233 0.0831039109588 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0798359213086 0.0758088955206 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.272504045128 0.150359130593 181% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.04531819774 0.0667264976115 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.1392134831 100% => 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: 13.0 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.65 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 126.0 100.480337079 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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