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.
It is debatable whether educators should require all university student to take history courses no matter their majors. This issue could be approached by several angles due to its complexity. However, after deeply elaborating, I contend that undergraduates do not be obligated to take history courses.
Admittedly, learning history benefits students in that youths can understand the faults happened before and avoid the mistakes. However, considering that students have taken history courses for 12 years before enroll in universities, undergraduates should already have enough history knowledge. As a result, instead of benefits for university students, forcing learning history would be negative for two reasons.
Firstly, it is useless to require undergraduates learning anything. On the contrary to high school students or more younger ones, university students are more autonomic and can not be controlled. If the school require them to take some courses they do not interested, they may just skip the class or sleep on the classrooms. Take my classmate Judy for example, she is a clever girl who likes physics to the degree that she can do her experiments for two days without sleep. However, if university require her to take the history course, then the only thing she will do is sleep on the class and learn nothing. Thus, such enforcement to take history courses is not anything but meaningless to undergraduates.
Secondly, obliging students to learn history no matter what their field of study is could be detrimental to their own major. Some students who major in burdensome department, such as architecture, may already have no enough time to finish their own homework and papers. If they are compelled to take history course, they would not balance their learning, and mess everything up. In that case, obligation to learn history is not only meaningless but also pernicious. My cousin is a good instance to illustrate this idea. She has a rigid father who anticipated her to learn everything, especially history, because he believes that history helped his daughter become erudite. However, my cousin majored on medicine of which load is terrible. She could not stand for the burden, and eventually dropped out school.
In sum, with the reasons I mentioned above, despite the benefit of learning history, forcing undergraduates to learn history is meaningless and even harmful, I believe that university students can take but should not be obligated to take history courses.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 112, Rule ID: MOST_COMPARATIVE[2]
Message: Use only 'younger' (without 'more') when you use the comparative.
Suggestion: younger
...the contrary to high school students or more younger ones, university students are more auto...
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Line 7, column 82, Rule ID: IS_SHOULD[1]
Message: Did you mean 'it'?
Suggestion: it
...ory no matter what their field of study is could be detrimental to their own major...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, thus, for example, such as, as a result, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 15.1003584229 119% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 9.8082437276 153% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 43.0788530466 88% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 52.1666666667 82% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2111.0 1977.66487455 107% => OK
No of words: 397.0 407.700716846 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31738035264 4.8611393121 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46372701284 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90213928434 2.67179642975 109% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 212.727598566 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.503778337531 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 664.2 618.680645161 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.5940352491 48.9658058833 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.523809524 100.406767564 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9047619048 20.6045352989 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.14285714286 5.45110844103 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 11.8709677419 42% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 3.85842293907 311% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.299180161829 0.236089414692 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0930995581701 0.076458572812 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0908809691404 0.0737576698707 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.191811014106 0.150856017488 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0595413269854 0.0645574589148 92% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 11.7677419355 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 58.1214874552 77% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.1575268817 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 10.9000537634 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.07 8.01818996416 101% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 86.8835125448 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 10.002688172 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => 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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