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.
The pros and cons of learning history have brought a heated debate for several years. Personally, I strongly disagree with the opinion that history should be a required course. I feel this way for three main reasons, which I will further explore in the following essay.
First of all, learning history is a waste of time. Since most college students are already overwhelmed by the heavy workload, adding history to the required course list doesn’t seem reasonable. Especially for engineering majors, they usually have to spend a massive amount of hours doing experiments in a laboratory. My personal experience is a compelling example of this. In my first year of college, I took many courses which include experiments. We had to spend at least ten hours per week in a laboratory, which is very stressful. Moreover, since history is a compulsory subject, we had to spend extra hours doing a history assignment. The additional workload made us burnt out, thus many of us can’t concentrate on our major and didn’t build up a solid foundation on our main subjects. This example demonstrates the redundancy of history courses.
Secondly, making history a compulsory course increases the school’s expenses. If every student is required to take a history course, additional teachers should be hired. As a result, the tuition fee will be increased, which could be harmful to students. For example, my friend, Abigail, who enrolled in NTU several years ago. In her second year of college, her school decided to turn history into a compulsory course and increased the tuition fee at the same time. The new policy urged people’s anger and they went on a protest. Finally, her college conceded and canceled the policy.
Finally, history is a subject which requires rote memorization. Learning things by memorizing isn’t beneficial and will not help us with our future career. Students can learn history by studying themselves or searching for information online. Furthermore, companies and factories require students who are able to harness cutting-edge technologies rather than historical knowledge. Except for history majors, learning history is unnecessary.
In conclusion, I strongly believe that history should not be a compulsory course. This is because learning history is a waste of time and also because it increases tuition fee. Learning history is not beneficial for our career.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 47, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'increase'?
Suggestion: increase
...dly, making history a compulsory course increases the school's expenses. If every st...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, furthermore, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, at least, except for, for example, i feel, in conclusion, as a result, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 15.1003584229 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 13.8261648746 65% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 43.0788530466 70% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 52.1666666667 79% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2045.0 1977.66487455 103% => OK
No of words: 383.0 407.700716846 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.33942558747 4.8611393121 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42384287591 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97030870634 2.67179642975 111% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 212.727598566 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.548302872063 0.524837075471 104% => OK
syllable_count: 637.2 618.680645161 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.6003584229 131% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 20.1344086022 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.4893903406 48.9658058833 60% => OK
Chars per sentence: 75.7407407407 100.406767564 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.1851851852 20.6045352989 69% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.92592592593 5.45110844103 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 11.8709677419 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 13.0 4.88709677419 266% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.189527624095 0.236089414692 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.058778354594 0.076458572812 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.054477351275 0.0737576698707 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.114974646698 0.150856017488 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0164095563408 0.0645574589148 25% => 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: 10.8 11.7677419355 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 48.81 58.1214874552 84% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.1575268817 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.1 10.9000537634 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.01818996416 105% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 86.8835125448 115% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 10.0537634409 76% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.247311828 107% => 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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