Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student’s field of study
A university plays a crucial role in shaping student’s future. Apart from making a student ‘employable’, a university must also make them educated and train them with all ‘life-skills’. A holistic knowledge from varied fields is what one needs to survive this competitive world.
It certainly is a very fetching idea to let students opt for courses outside their arena or field of study. This would increase their exposure to different fields, would pave way to expanding of thought process, identifying common roots or connections between subjects that are entirely different therefore resulting into new innovations. For instance the coining of ‘Mechatronics’ course: It came into existence recently, it’s a combination of subjects from ‘Mechanics’ and ‘Electronics’ (which have nothing in common between them) offered as a single course now. This has proved to be very advantageous and is leading to new innovations in the market.
Moreover, being subjected to a variety of different courses helps us to discover some hidden passion, adapt new hobbies and tumble upon a new ‘idea’ (concept) that might fetch fortune into our world. Not everyone is fortunate enough to recognize ‘what they really want to become’. Had Steve jobs taken his grad classes seriously and never skipped his classes to attend calligraphy course (which wasn’t part of his course), he wouldn’t have made ‘Apple’ products so special.
Yet we cannot rule out the possibility that at times, taking up other courses outside our majors might be stressful. In universities we have examinations to evaluate our knowledge/learning; if a science major student is forced to take up history classes, he might have to spend extra hours learning them to clear his exams. Thus he would have to compromise the ‘time’ he dedicates to his majors, thereby becoming jack of all and master of none.
In sum, I concur that if ‘choosing courses outside student’s field of study’ is kept optional then it would certainly be beneficial to students. But if it is mandated then it might prove to be a bane to them.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 212, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[4]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'holistic knowledge'.
Suggestion: Holistic knowledge
... them with all 'life-skills'. A holistic knowledge from varied fields is what one needs to...
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Line 7, column 325, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...hours learning them to clear his exams. Thus he would have to compromise the 't...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'if', 'moreover', 'really', 'so', 'then', 'therefore', 'thus', 'apart from', 'for instance']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.228187919463 0.240241500013 95% => OK
Verbs: 0.167785234899 0.157235817809 107% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0715883668904 0.0880659088768 81% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0492170022371 0.0497285424764 99% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0671140939597 0.0444667217837 151% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.0805369127517 0.12292977631 66% => OK
Participles: 0.0425055928412 0.0406280797675 105% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.79100655258 2.79330140395 136% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0447427293065 0.030933414821 145% => OK
Particles: 0.00447427293065 0.0016655270985 269% => OK
Determiners: 0.0492170022371 0.0997080785238 49% => Some determiners wanted.
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0223713646532 0.0249443105267 90% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0156599552573 0.0148568991511 105% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2194.0 2732.02544248 80% => OK
No of words: 338.0 452.878318584 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.49112426036 6.0361032391 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28774723029 4.58838876751 93% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.396449704142 0.366273622748 108% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.322485207101 0.280924506359 115% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.218934911243 0.200843997647 109% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.153846153846 0.132149295362 116% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.79100655258 2.79330140395 136% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 219.290929204 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.627218934911 0.48968727796 128% => OK
Word variations: 75.5660922045 55.4138127331 136% => OK
How many sentences: 15.0 20.6194690265 73% => OK
Sentence length: 22.5333333333 23.380412469 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.134678284 59.4972553346 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 146.266666667 141.124799967 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5333333333 23.380412469 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.733333333333 0.674092028746 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.21349557522 38% => OK
Readability: 54.7818540434 51.4728631049 106% => OK
Elegance: 1.23622047244 1.64882698954 75% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.369986263695 0.391690518653 94% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.117374974781 0.123202303941 95% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0679087476704 0.077325440228 88% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.568133664694 0.547984918172 104% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.144410679524 0.149214159877 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.139634060821 0.161403998019 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0735303479269 0.0892212321368 82% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.327397514024 0.385218514788 85% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0515702200838 0.0692045440612 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.225851451188 0.275328986314 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0398269525679 0.0653680567796 61% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.4325221239 86% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.30420353982 38% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88274336283 82% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 7.22455752212 97% => OK
Negative topic words: 2.0 3.66592920354 55% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.70907079646 148% => OK
Total topic words: 13.0 13.5995575221 96% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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