Do you agree or disagree with the following statement It s better to have broad knowledge of many academic subjects than to specialize in one specific subject

The best investment one can make is in their own knowledge and thus, many people might feel that having in depth knowledge of a particular subject is better, but is that always true? According to me, I feel that it is a better to have broad knowledge of many academic subjects than to specialize. I feel this way due to three reasons that I will explore in my essay.

Preeminently, if you have broad knowledge on many academic subjects you have a wide variety of job description that would fit you. This will help you explore and dive deep into what fascinates you the most. For me personally after finishing my undergrad from Electronics when I started to search for job, I could see myself fitting into variety of hardware and software roles such as chip designer, software developer, data analyst and many more. This helped me boost my confidence and also provided me with a sense of security.

In conjunction with that, it is always easier to shift between roles when you start to feel saturated with your existing role and want new opportunities for yourself. For instance, I have been working as a software engineer for three years in a company and I started to feel there was no more intellectual growth for me in that field. In addition, to that I wanted to shift to data scientist job as I wanted to have some new experience and challenges for me. It was easy for me to do because I had taken up a course on data science during my undergrad and it helped me to a great extend.

Congruously, when you have understanding on wide variety of subjects this enhances your ability to learn new things easily and you find connections between various fields. This would help with any new skill you want to learn. Specializing would make your career rigid in a specific subject. This might result in limited opportunity and after working for few years there might not be any learning curve or challenges that would excite.

In a nutshell, I feel having knowledge on various fields is better than specializing in a specific subject. This way you always have the opportunity to learn new things, find new and exciting challenges for yourself and it would not mentally saturate and drain you easily.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 184, Rule ID: ACCORDING_TO_ME[1]
Message: This phrase can sound awkward in English. Consider using 'in my opinion' or 'I think'.
Suggestion: In my opinion; I think
...ect is better, but is that always true? According to me, I feel that it is a better to have bro...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so, thus, for instance, i feel, in addition, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 15.1003584229 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 9.8082437276 122% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 62.0 43.0788530466 144% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 51.0 52.1666666667 98% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1820.0 1977.66487455 92% => OK
No of words: 388.0 407.700716846 95% => OK
Chars per words: 4.69072164948 4.8611393121 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43821085614 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66048300829 2.67179642975 100% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 212.727598566 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.476804123711 0.524837075471 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 565.2 618.680645161 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK

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: 22.0 20.1344086022 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.8014833288 48.9658058833 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.058823529 100.406767564 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8235294118 20.6045352989 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.94117647059 5.45110844103 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.85842293907 26% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.29784039192 0.236089414692 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.122008839936 0.076458572812 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.131936792347 0.0737576698707 179% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.194061504699 0.150856017488 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0881673568722 0.0645574589148 137% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 11.7677419355 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 58.1214874552 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.1575268817 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.22 10.9000537634 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.54 8.01818996416 94% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 86.8835125448 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.0537634409 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => 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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