TPO-12 - Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is better to have broad knowledge of many academic subjects than to specialize in one specific subject.Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Submitted by Purity715 on Sun, 02/25/2018 - 01:35

I disagree that it is better to have broad knowledge of many academic subjects than to specialize in one specific subject.
In my opinion, compared to have broad knowledge of many academic subjects, I think specializing in one specific subject is more important.

First, people's energy is limited, so that they cannot pay too much time to too many academic subjects. Even people try to do that, it is not quite possible for them to get very deep knowledge in many subjects. It is easy to know superficial knowledge in those subjects, but it is difficult to get further and profound learning of them. If a person can only get superficial learning about something, then it is not significant.

Further, though a person does not have broad knowledge of many subjects, but if he is specialized in one subject, this is quite useful. Being an expert in one subject is not easy, it requires that the person's persistence in getting profound knowledge and making breakthrough constantly in that field. When he becomes an expert in a certain field, he really will play a very important role in his job or in that field. And in our society, it needs specialists in all kinds of fields instead of people only get shallow knowledge in those fields.

Therefore, being specialized in one subject is more important than having broad knowledge in many subjects.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 202, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'persons'' or 'person's'?
Suggestion: persons'; person's
...bject is not easy, it requires that the persons persistence in getting profound knowled...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, really, so, then, therefore, i think, in my opinion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 15.1003584229 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 9.8082437276 31% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 13.8261648746 43% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.0286738351 63% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 43.0788530466 63% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 52.1666666667 61% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 8.0752688172 12% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1124.0 1977.66487455 57% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 231.0 407.700716846 57% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.8658008658 4.8611393121 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.89854898053 4.48103885553 87% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78386955944 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 119.0 212.727598566 56% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.515151515152 0.524837075471 98% => OK
syllable_count: 348.3 618.680645161 56% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.51630824373 99% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.94265232975 20% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 20.6003584229 53% => 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: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 19.3881620183 48.9658058833 40% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 102.181818182 100.406767564 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 20.6045352989 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.09090909091 5.45110844103 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 11.8709677419 51% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
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: 0.299691758079 0.236089414692 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.148254551228 0.076458572812 194% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.171720030567 0.0737576698707 233% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.270841198105 0.150856017488 180% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.178224725219 0.0645574589148 276% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 11.7677419355 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 58.1214874552 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 10.9000537634 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.41 8.01818996416 92% => OK
difficult_words: 40.0 86.8835125448 46% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Minimum 250 words wanted.

Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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