Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? All university students should be required to take history courses no matter what their field of study is. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
The pros and cons of learning history have brought a heated debate for several years. Personally, I strongly disagree with the opinion that history should be a required course. I feel this way for three main reasons, which I will further explore in the following essay.
First of all, learning history is a waste of time. Since most college students are already overwhelmed by the heavy workload, adding history to the required-course list doesn’t seem reasonable. Especially for engineering majors, they usually have to spend massive amount of hours doing experiments in a laboratory. My personal experience is a compelling example of this. In my first year of college, I took many courses which include experiments. We had to spend at least ten hours per week in a laboratory, which is very stressful. Moreover, since history is a compulsory subject, we had to spend extra hours doing history assignment. The additional workload made us burnt out, thus many of us can’t concentrate on our major and didn’t build up a solid foundation on our main subjects. This example demonstrates the redundancy of history courses.
Secondly, making history a compulsory course increases the school’s expenses. If every student is required to take a history course, additional teachers should be hired. As a result, the tuition fee will be increased, which could be harmful for students. For example, my friend, Abigail, who enrolled in NTU several years ago. In her second year of college, her school decided to turn history into a compulsory course and increased the tuition fee at the same time. The new policy urged people’s anger and they went on a protest. Finally, her college conceded and cancelled the policy.
Finally, history is a subject which requires rote memorization. Learning things by memorizing isn’t beneficial and will not help us with our future career. Students can gain history knowledge by studying themselves or searching for information online. Companies and factories require students who are able to harness cutting-edge technologies rather than historical knowledge. In this point of view, learning history is unnecessary except for history majors.
In conclusion, I strongly believe that history should not be a compulsory course. This is because learning history is a waste of time and also because it increases tuition fee. Moreover, rote memorization doesn’t help students in any aspect of their studies and it will not benefit their future career.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 47, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'increase'?
Suggestion: increase
...dly, making history a compulsory course increases the school's expenses. If every st...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, at least, except for, for example, i feel, in conclusion, as a result, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 9.8082437276 102% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 43.0788530466 77% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 52.1666666667 84% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2126.0 1977.66487455 108% => OK
No of words: 397.0 407.700716846 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.35516372796 4.8611393121 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46372701284 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97907478698 2.67179642975 112% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 212.727598566 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.554156171285 0.524837075471 106% => OK
syllable_count: 659.7 618.680645161 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.6003584229 131% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 20.1344086022 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 28.1031804555 48.9658058833 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 78.7407407407 100.406767564 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.7037037037 20.6045352989 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.44444444444 5.45110844103 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.88709677419 225% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.201907940969 0.236089414692 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0602916998535 0.076458572812 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0546718984221 0.0737576698707 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123671915559 0.150856017488 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00965257533358 0.0645574589148 15% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 11.7677419355 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.81 58.1214874552 84% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.22 10.9000537634 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.51 8.01818996416 106% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 86.8835125448 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.0537634409 76% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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