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.
University is the place where the students specializes in the field of study of ones choice and acquire in-depth knowledge of that field. If that field of study is not history, there is a little to no need for a university student to study the history courses. I disagree with the statement here and I will discuss the reasons of my disagreement in the following paragraphs.
To begin with, University is the place where we expand on the general knowledge we gather in college with a particular focus like some chooses physics, some chooses biology, etc. In this modern era of competition, specialization in a particular field is valued more than having bits and pieces of knowledge in several fields. As the university study program is a time limited program, there is no point in using a portion of that valuable time in studying subjects that will not help a student in his career. What will be the use of history to an engineer? One incident of my friend is a compelling reason for my opinion. One of my friend was pretty bad with history. He had troubles to remember historicals names and dates. As he always wanted to be an engineer, no one was more happy than him when he passed the college as history is not a mandatory course for engineering. He got enrolled in mechanical engineering of a reknown university. Within his second year in the university, he made a robot that provides support to disable person during walking and this won him a national prize. So, not studying history in the university did not hinder him from doing great things.
Moreover, university study is an investment of time and money on the part of the students. The students always want to have focused curriculum that will help them to achieve certain skill which will enable them to earn in the future. Now, if the students are forced to take history courses regardless of whether they want it or not can affect their motivation of study. This can also have a negative impact on their result. One of my experience is the reason behind taking this position. In college, another friend of mine struggled with the history courses too. He struggles so much that he barely passed those courses and got the lowest possble grades. This lowered his total GPA and had a bad impact on his motivation for higher studies. In addition, he also had to explain the reason of his bad result in his admission essays although his GPA sans the history courses were quite good.
In conclusion, with the explanations above I stand by my position that students should not be forced to take history courses regardless of their field of study.
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- TOEFL T P O 48 - Integrated Writing Task 3
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 81, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...ts specializes in the field of study of ones choice and acquire in-depth knowledge o...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, moreover, second, so, in addition, in conclusion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 15.1003584229 119% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 13.8261648746 65% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 51.0 43.0788530466 118% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 52.1666666667 132% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.0752688172 149% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2157.0 1977.66487455 109% => OK
No of words: 458.0 407.700716846 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.7096069869 4.8611393121 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62611441266 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63213840642 2.67179642975 99% => OK
Unique words: 222.0 212.727598566 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.484716157205 0.524837075471 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 695.7 618.680645161 112% => OK
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: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6003584229 117% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.9126818538 48.9658058833 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.875 100.406767564 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0833333333 20.6045352989 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.04166666667 5.45110844103 56% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.85842293907 233% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.27429083562 0.236089414692 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0782165216692 0.076458572812 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0667105766752 0.0737576698707 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.207407303334 0.150856017488 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.062920830693 0.0645574589148 97% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.3 11.7677419355 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 58.1214874552 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.04 10.9000537634 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.13 8.01818996416 101% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 86.8835125448 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.002688172 115% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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