University should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student’s field of study.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position

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University should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student’s field of study.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.

Taking a variety of course in university has many merits. There are many people who success in their career due to their wide range of experience when they were in universities. For this reason, some people assert that university should require every student to take a variety of courses outside their field of study. I fundamentally agree with them insofar as with some qualifications. However, without adequate qualifications, this recommendation is too broad to hold true.

There are a lot of people whose diverse experiences in university make them prominent. David Trunk, one of the leading philosophers in 21th century, is definitely such one. He studied mathematics and computer science, and even no background in philosophy until he entered philosophy graduate school. However, through this experiences outside philosophy, which is his specialty, he developed a fundamental idea that our minds are over and above our physical ingredients. Rhee, one of leading philosopher of 20th century, is another example. He majored in philosophy, mathematics, and French at his college day, which makes him devise a new conceptual tool ‘coola bula’.

However, although there are many instances other than Trunk and Rhee, these are not for the assertion that all university student should take courses outside their major. First, their achievement is not from forced varieties but from spontaneous ones. In their college days, they could not have taken such diverse courses. It is their choices not systemic limitation that lead them to be outstanding in their fields. That is, if someone concludes from these examples that university should require students to take courses other than their major, then he/she commits a fallacy.
Another reason I disagree with the recommendation is that most people have no such high level of intellectual capacity. If I, not prominent just pedestrian as you are, take a course, say computer science, outside my major, philosophy. In this case, I could only take a lower level course designed for freshman, since I have no background knowledge on computer. True, for some people, this kind of lower level of knowledge would help. Yet, as a person who wish to have a specialty, it would be useless. In other words, it would be advantageous only for few people who have enough intellectual faculty to learn new things well and fast.

Also, the job market competition today is so competitive that even a deviation from our own field could be harmed our chances of getting a job. If I spend a lot of time for coding computer programs, then my chances of failure to be a tenure-track professor would be much greater. Richard Dawkins, one of the most famous scientists today, once wrote in his autobiography that he would be a successful researcher more than he really did if he had not spent a lot of time for coding programs. His regret shows that at least for some people focusing is more important than diversifying, which makes the recommendation false in general.

In sum, although there are many examples showing that diversified course experience in university is crucial for success in career, the recommendation that university should require all its student to take courses outside their major could not be endorsed. I showed it by examples that at least for some people variety of courses would be disadvantageous. (547 words)

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, really, so, then, well, at least, in general, kind of, of course, in other words

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 14.8657303371 47% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.3162921348 186% => OK
Pronoun: 68.0 33.0505617978 206% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 65.0 58.6224719101 111% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2836.0 2235.4752809 127% => OK
No of words: 550.0 442.535393258 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15636363636 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84273464058 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9338401766 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 268.0 215.323595506 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.487272727273 0.4932671777 99% => OK
syllable_count: 891.9 704.065955056 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 6.24550561798 256% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.0467272165 60.3974514979 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.285714286 118.986275619 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6428571429 23.4991977007 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.96428571429 5.21951772744 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => 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: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.255722115349 0.243740707755 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0674805647486 0.0831039109588 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0864476555845 0.0758088955206 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139192997821 0.150359130593 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.074336655252 0.0667264976115 111% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 14.1392134831 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 100.480337079 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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