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 hardly to deny that history is of vital importance, and such idea lead to some people generate the idea that all university students are supposed to take history courses, regardless of their major. However, this statement contains both factual and logical drawbacks, and it should be re-examined meticulously. With effectiveness and efficient factors taken into consideration, I strongly suggest taht it is not reasonable for all university students to take compulsory history courses.
Firstly, it is undeniable that history is essential, but this subject is not suitable for everyone. Since in the university there are various majors, it indicates that the preferences of different students vary from each other. For those who are devoted into history, taking history courses do contribute a lot to them. On the contrary, for students who are not interested in history, making them take compulsory history courses is just like a nightmare. Aiitionally, to examine the educational quality, there will be exams at the end of the semester. To pass the exam, those who are not good at history may need to try their best to memorize every single point on the textbook. What is worse, they are not likely to get good grades, which may frustrate their enthusiasim on other courses.
In addition, taking compusory history is just a waste of time for most of the students whose major is not history. For students who have the passion on history, they can study history by themselves after class. For others, taking such courses will only occupy their spare time and may even make them fail on their own major courses. Take the case of my friend Alex, an ordinary student majors in engineering. Last semester, he was required to take compulsory art courses. He was not in favor of art at all, but due to college regulations, he had to take the 3-hour course twice a week. At the end of that semester, though he was quite busy with his major couses, like calculus, physics, he still needed to spend time on the final exam of the art course. As a result, he nearly failed some of his majors courses, which made him upset. What is more impressive is that this kind of phenomenon is not isolated. Universities tend to require students to participate in courses that are not related to their majors, which consume much time. Without these compulsory courses, it is believed that students will be more engaged in their own majors.
Indeed, taking history courses can broaden horizons, but its time cost should be considered. For those who are interested in history and have spare time, they can choose to learn by themselves whenever they want. Since most students are busy with their major courses, extra compulsory history courses are not plausible.
In a nutshell, after analysing related advantages and disadvantages, I do hold the point of view that taking history courses is not necessary for all university students.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, may, so, still, thus, in addition, kind of, as a result, on the contrary, what is more
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 15.1003584229 212% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 9.8082437276 122% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 11.0286738351 163% => OK
Pronoun: 52.0 43.0788530466 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 65.0 52.1666666667 125% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2438.0 1977.66487455 123% => OK
No of words: 490.0 407.700716846 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97551020408 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70488508055 4.48103885553 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69178644876 2.67179642975 101% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 212.727598566 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.475510204082 0.524837075471 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 787.5 618.680645161 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 16.0 9.59856630824 167% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.86738351254 268% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 12.0 4.94265232975 243% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6003584229 121% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.3408098282 48.9658058833 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 97.52 100.406767564 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6 20.6045352989 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.8 5.45110844103 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.266199260696 0.236089414692 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0837216173439 0.076458572812 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0489266622024 0.0737576698707 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.173835159977 0.150856017488 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0316893843882 0.0645574589148 49% => 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: 11.8 11.7677419355 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 58.1214874552 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 10.1575268817 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 10.9000537634 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.9 8.01818996416 99% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 86.8835125448 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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