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a31k611777 发表于 2012-11-11 12:35
TITLE::It is better to have broad knowledge of many academic subjects than to specialize in one spec ...

It is better to have broad knowledge of many academic subjects than to specialize in one special subjects

Nowadays, as more and more people go to university to further their education, the debate that whether to broaden knowledge of many academic subjects or to specialize in one specific subject has become controversial. Everyone has his or her reasons to his or her own preference. And for me, I think it is better to have broad knowledge of many academic subjects than to special in one specific subject.

Although specializing in one specific subject can really help us to learn this area much better, but it do also has several disadvantages. For example, if one specializes in one specific subject, he or she may failed in another field. This may also cause the failure in his or her major field (I'm not quite getting your reasoning. Isn't your 'major' field usually the field that you specialize in, at least for a while during university?). In my school there is an Assistant Professor called Cao Nima who has specilized in the subject of supermolecular (I'm not an expert on molecular probes but if google can be trusted, this should be 'supRAmolecular', rather than 'supERmolecular'.) flourescent molecular probe for about 24 years. But, surprisingly, he is still an Assistant Professor as a consequence of having no paper published for about 12 years. Specializing in this field only, He did a great job 13 years before when he was young. He published several papers on the Journal of the American Chemistry Society. But he did not have broad knowledge of other academic subjects such as physics and biology. So, when that area is no longer hot, his paper is not cited. As a reasult, he can no longer publish any paper. This reflected that it is better to have broad knowledge of many academic subjects than to specialize in one specific subject. (Well, I would question your reasoning because you seem to assume that if he had a broad knowledge of other subjects, he would be able to continue publishing papers in other areas…which I find quite hard to believe. In other words, you've shown that specialization has a danger of going out of demand, but you didn't really show, at least not persuasively enough for me, that having a broad knowledge of things would have helped him to avert this danger. The academia is specialized by nature, and to only have some broad, shallow knowledge of a field is not going to warrant you publications..)

Meanwhile, the point that better having a broad knowledge of many academic subjects than specializing in one specific subject can been seen from the every year' s Nobel Prizer winner' s experience. For example, the 2008 Nobel Prizer winner in Chemistry, Qian Yongjian (his Chinese name), a chemist, did some work at the field combining the chemistry and biology, finding the Green Fluorescent Protein, progressing the medical research. A Nobel chemist did some work in the field of combining the chemistry and biology, benefiting the medicine. Is not this a very good example to sustain that having broad knowledge of many academic subjects than specializing in one specific subject? (But you could also argue that he specializes in a very specific subject – a certain protein as a marker for gene activity. The very nature of proteins is inter-disciplinary because their compositions are of course chemical, but their occurrences, applications and uses are mostly biological and medical. It's all up to how you define 'broad/specific subject areas'. You assumed the traditional labels such as 'physics', 'chemistry', 'biology' – these aren't necessarily the same labels people may always choose to represent subject areas.) So, in my view, it is better to have broad knowledge of many academic subjects than to specialize in one specific subject.

Furthermore, according to an essay published on the Journal of Advanced Academic Development in China, 23th, May, 2011, (Too many details will make your reference appear more fake than real.) the company (Which company is 'the' company? 'the' is a definite article, meaning that there is a specific, particular company you're talking about.) needs more talents who have the knowledge in more than 3 fields.(Again, this is very vague because what constitute as a 'field' is not clearly known. If I am a programmer, does knowing Java,Perl and C# count as three fields, or not? If I am a translator, does knowing 5 different languages count as different fields, or not? Will he be less in demand than a translator who knows English, Physics and Chemistry? Think about it.) So, if one has broad knowledge of many academic subjects than one only, he or she will get more chances in finding jobs.

However, specializing one specific subject has several advantages. Actually, for my view, having broad knowledge of many academic subjects is better.(This is no proper conclusion at all. If you want to mention the other side's points of view, address them properly, refute or counter tham.)

总结：

强烈模板嫌疑，因为拼字和语法低级错误太多，并且论点句也是一直按题目的说法在不停重复。。例子举得倒是不错，虽然论述可以有更严谨之处，但以托福的要求来说是可以了。。

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