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.
Some people think that universities should require all students to participate in at least one history courses, while others think that school should not force students to take history courses at all. Based on my personal experience, I think that history courses should not be compulsory. My reasons are as follows.
First, universities care about student's learning, and if they require each and every students to enroll in required history lessons, it might affect students' studies. To be more specific, if a school considered history courses as compulsory, students might spend more than 8 hours per week learning history knowledge and doing several history projects. Most importantly, most students are already running out of time preparing other major courses that are important to them, so they probably do not have enough memories in their brain for them to store history concepts. That means, students' learning might be distracted by these compulsory history courses. On the contrary, if the college does not enact such policy, students will have more time preparing for courses related to their field of study. Clearly, forcing all students to take history classes might seriously weaken their learning.
Secondly, most schools care about budgets, and not requiring students to participate in certain compulsory courses can help them save a significant amount of money. Take my university as an example. History classes are considered compulsory in my school, so they spent more than a million dollars per month purchasing necessary equipment for those classes, such as textbooks. Moreover, hiring three or four history professors alone took them more than 4000 dollars per month. Nevertheless, my brother's university did not request all students to participate in history classes. As a result, they did not need to allocate a great deal of money designing compulsory classes and hiring history lecturers. Evidently, compulsory education might make a university disburse too much money for those lessons.
Finally, colleges place an emphasis on professors' mental health, and demanding all students to participate in history lessons might make teachers feel under a lot of pressure. For example, take my university again as an example. Many history professors need to spend 8 to 9 hours per week designing materials that are suitable for students from different departments. In addition, lecturers also need to spend extra hour explaining basic concepts during the class, since most students do hot have an adequate amount of basic history background. What is worse, the quality of questions asked by these students are extremely poor, and from time to time, professors do not know where to start when explaining a historical concept. As a result, most teachers are worn out teaching these compulsory courses. Had my university abolish such policy, the majority of professors could feel less stressed when giving lectures to students.
In conclusion, I maintain that schools should not demand students to take history lessons no matter what their field of study is. This is because schools should care about budget, students' learning, as well as professors' mental status.
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, if, moreover, nevertheless, second, secondly, so, well, while, at least, for example, i think, in addition, in conclusion, such as, as a result, as well as, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 15.1003584229 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 9.8082437276 173% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 13.8261648746 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 43.0788530466 81% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 52.1666666667 102% => 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: 2691.0 1977.66487455 136% => OK
No of words: 500.0 407.700716846 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.382 4.8611393121 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72870804502 4.48103885553 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71505064409 2.67179642975 102% => OK
Unique words: 245.0 212.727598566 115% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.49 0.524837075471 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 818.1 618.680645161 132% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 9.59856630824 83% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.51792114695 199% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6003584229 121% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.0525063048 48.9658058833 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.64 100.406767564 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 20.6045352989 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.76 5.45110844103 142% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 11.8709677419 59% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => 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: 0.277782624735 0.236089414692 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0898411115949 0.076458572812 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0692866849694 0.0737576698707 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.18648980106 0.150856017488 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0663575058927 0.0645574589148 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 11.7677419355 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.92 10.9000537634 128% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.07 8.01818996416 101% => OK
difficult_words: 109.0 86.8835125448 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.247311828 137% => 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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