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.
Whether the university should require every student to take history courses can be weighed in many aspects. However, not every student can benefit from it.
Admittedly, the speaker's claim appears to have considerable merits. Taking history courses surely can broaden students' horizons and enable them to know how culture and society evolved. Yet the speaker fails to provide a precise litmus test for measuring "students". When we speak o students, the following can be put forth: students with relatively easy majors, students with burdensome majors, students with learning prowess, and students who struggle against the academy institution. Obviously, students who have relatively easy majors and those who have ingenious talents in learning can handle or even enjoy the history classes, while others may not.
It is thus justifiable to take all kinds of students into account, and we will find the statement problematic. For instance, consider a student who struggled a lot just to make their own way to catch up on the academic progress within their own study. If they are required to take extra courses outside of their field of study, we can already anticipate those students may have a higher chance to encounter extraneous failures which they are not supposed to deal with if they don't take these courses. As a result, the failure and the consequential influences such as depression may outweigh the benefit brought by these additional history courses.
Moreover, the speakers falsely assume that by studying these history courses, students will benefit. However, students' learning always depends on their self-discipline. Even clever students who are able to learn things faster can fail to assimilate the information they dislike. If history isn't among one of their interest, they may simply be inattentive to the class. Therefore, studying history courses will not be able to guarantee ideal results in this case, which may require additional regulations or incentives to encourage students.
In summary, the statement is not as persuasive as it stands. Although history courses could indeed benefit students, not all students are the same. If they are not driven or lack of interest in history, or they do not have leeway for extra courses, the result will backfire no matter how good the intention or ambition of the claim is. According to my exposition, I fundamentally disagree with
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Whether” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
Whether the university should require every stu...
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Line 5, column 477, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...y are not supposed to deal with if they dont take these courses. As a result, the fa...
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Line 7, column 291, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...he information they dislike. If history isnt among one of their interest, they may s...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, may, moreover, so, therefore, thus, while, for instance, in summary, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 9.8082437276 184% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 43.0788530466 65% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 52.1666666667 82% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2037.0 1977.66487455 103% => OK
No of words: 383.0 407.700716846 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.31853785901 4.8611393121 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42384287591 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84438119816 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 212.727598566 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.55091383812 0.524837075471 105% => OK
syllable_count: 632.7 618.680645161 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 9.59856630824 42% => OK
Article: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.51792114695 199% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.3052483651 48.9658058833 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.85 100.406767564 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.15 20.6045352989 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.1 5.45110844103 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.273233372288 0.236089414692 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0829394485418 0.076458572812 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0589503542546 0.0737576698707 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.163405493506 0.150856017488 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0198990975284 0.0645574589148 31% => 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: 13.2 11.7677419355 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 58.1214874552 75% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 10.9000537634 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.95 8.01818996416 112% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 86.8835125448 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Whether” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
Whether the university should require every stu...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 477, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...y are not supposed to deal with if they dont take these courses. As a result, the fa...
^^^^
Line 7, column 291, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...he information they dislike. If history isnt among one of their interest, they may s...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, may, moreover, so, therefore, thus, while, for instance, in summary, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 9.8082437276 184% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 43.0788530466 65% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 52.1666666667 82% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2037.0 1977.66487455 103% => OK
No of words: 383.0 407.700716846 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.31853785901 4.8611393121 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42384287591 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84438119816 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 212.727598566 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.55091383812 0.524837075471 105% => OK
syllable_count: 632.7 618.680645161 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 9.59856630824 42% => OK
Article: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.51792114695 199% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.3052483651 48.9658058833 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.85 100.406767564 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.15 20.6045352989 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.1 5.45110844103 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.5376344086 54% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.273233372288 0.236089414692 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0829394485418 0.076458572812 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0589503542546 0.0737576698707 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.163405493506 0.150856017488 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0198990975284 0.0645574589148 31% => 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: 13.2 11.7677419355 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 58.1214874552 75% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 10.9000537634 125% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.95 8.01818996416 112% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 86.8835125448 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.