Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: All university students should take basic science courses regardless of their field of study.
Some people say that science is the basic foundation of all courses and one should definately study it regardless of the field they are interested in, however I disagree with the statement that university students should take basic science courses for the following two reasons :
Firstly, someone interested in history or political sciences need not need to know any scientific stuff to excel at their respective fields. For example during my first year of college, a friend of mine was interested in pursuing historical arts as his major but the university curriculum forced him to study three science courses. He ended up doing all the three courses so that he could complete his degree but they did not help him at all with his major. He was interested in art and how subjective or objective one painting could be, what are the thoughts inside an artists head when making a specific painting and stuff like that. It was fairly difficult for him to comprehend how taking three science courses would help him with his field of interest.
Secondly, a student not good at science might just get bad grades in these courses despite them being good at their respective major hurting their overall grades. As I recall one of my close friends who quit college solely because he was not able to put his mind to get decent grades in the basic science courses making him not worthy of a degree. The major he came to pursue in college was human behavior and emotions which dealt more with live examples rather than anything science could explain. He talked about how interesting it is to see how humans behave based on certain characteristics and how they respond to specific type of questions. He was very good at reading and predicting human behavior but unfortunately had no background or interest in science.
It might be true that science lays the basic foundation for most of the courses and it is important for one to know these basics. People who are interested in science or people who want to explore other fields might really benefit from the university making them do rudimentary science courses. They can gauge their interests in the start itself and see if they like the field. For example a person pursuing masters in architecture might reallky like the initial science courses related to math and help her in architecture along the way since in architecture one needs to know some maths to calculate the approximate dimensions of the buildings and interiors.
However, this issue is complex as it has beneficial to some students whereas not that great for others. Optional science courses would be the best way to accomodate both sides of the crowd. Nevertheless, I still contend that that making science courses compulsory for students in not the right way forward.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, nevertheless, really, second, secondly, so, still, whereas, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 9.8082437276 143% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 13.8261648746 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 53.0 43.0788530466 123% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 62.0 52.1666666667 119% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 8.0752688172 211% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2313.0 1977.66487455 117% => OK
No of words: 473.0 407.700716846 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89006342495 4.8611393121 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.66353547975 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5859721315 2.67179642975 97% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 212.727598566 112% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.503171247357 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 711.9 618.680645161 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.51792114695 28% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.94265232975 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => 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: 27.0 20.1344086022 134% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 79.8809668077 48.9658058833 163% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.058823529 100.406767564 136% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.8235294118 20.6045352989 135% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.17647058824 5.45110844103 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 11.8709677419 101% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.88709677419 20% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.30544537154 0.236089414692 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0940405197498 0.076458572812 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.101198577767 0.0737576698707 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.212131048276 0.150856017488 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.168442879828 0.0645574589148 261% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 11.7677419355 132% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 58.1214874552 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 10.1575268817 124% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.38 10.9000537634 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.88 8.01818996416 98% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 86.8835125448 100% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 30.0 10.002688172 300% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 12.8 10.0537634409 127% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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