Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study.
There is a long-lasting discussion about whether our universities should form generalist professionals or very technical and specialised professionals. I argue that in an increasingly interdisciplinary and changing world, having general skills might be an advantage over a petrified specialised profile. Additionally, for the human progress is better when we do not segment the fields that much and rely in the combination of the best practices of each field of study.
First, it is an illusion that the fields of study are completely separate. Even if there is a widespread feeling that humanities, biological and quantitative fields are a disparate, the truth is that every field can benefit from the specific knowledges of the other fields. For example, it is better a computational programmer that can only code or a computation programmer that is able to understand the needs of the clients? What about an engineer that cannot write a project proposal without misspelling everything? And an artist that is not able to do simple calculations to manage his or her studio? In other words, the borders of the fields are increasingly blurred.
Second, crystallized skills and a too narrow focus can be a future disadvantage. For instance, a doctor can specialized in a kind of surgery that in 10 years might be replaced by robot machinery. Or a technology professional can specialized in some kind of code that may be replaced in the future. In other words, the skills needed today might not be the same as the skills needed in the future.
Therefore, universities should encourage their students to take courses outside their specific field. This opportunity can broaden students horizons and offer a possibility of thinking outside the box. It is a very powerful situation when students from different perspectives gather together and brainstorm solutions for complex problems. A segmented world is poorer than a world that combines different knowledges.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, may, second, so, therefore, for example, for instance, kind of, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 33.0505617978 70% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 58.6224719101 56% => More preposition wanted.
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: 1657.0 2235.4752809 74% => OK
No of words: 313.0 442.535393258 71% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.29392971246 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20616286096 4.55969084622 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.22210135523 2.79657885939 115% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 215.323595506 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.546325878594 0.4932671777 111% => OK
syllable_count: 516.6 704.065955056 73% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.6645695112 60.3974514979 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.4705882353 118.986275619 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4117647059 23.4991977007 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.23529411765 5.21951772744 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.195854493051 0.243740707755 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0574847233473 0.0831039109588 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0946056638406 0.0758088955206 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.115008574679 0.150359130593 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.107247088342 0.0667264976115 161% => 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: 13.4 12.1639044944 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 100.480337079 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.8971910112 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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