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 their heavy workload, adding history to the required course list doesn’t seem reasonable. Take engineering students for example. Most of the engineering students have to spend a massive amount of hours doing experiments in a laboratory. As a result, learning history interferes with their studies and results in lower academic performance. My personal experience is a compelling example of this. In my first year of college, I chose chemistry as my major and I took many courses which require conducting chemical experiments. We had to spend at least ten hours per week in a laboratory, which is extremely stressful. Moreover, since history is a compulsory subject, we had to take an extra course and had to spend additional hours doing our history assignment. The overwhelming workload made us burnt out, so many of us can’t concentrate on our chemistry courses and didn’t build up a solid foundation on our main subjects. This example demonstrates the redundancy of history courses, learning history is harmful to many engineering students.
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 in order to make up for the financial shortfall. For example, my friend, Abigail, who enrolled in NTU several years ago. In her second year of college, her school decided to make history 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. Moreover, students can gain history knowledge by studying themselves or searching for information online. Recent research suggests that more and more companies require students who are able to harness some cutting-edge technologies rather than having sufficient historical knowledge. In this point of view, learning history is unnecessary and doesn’t help with our career.
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. Moreover, rote memorization doesn’t help students in any aspect of their studies and it will not benefit their future career.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 46, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'increase'?
Suggestion: increase
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, at least, 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 : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.0286738351 82% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 43.0788530466 91% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 52.1666666667 98% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.0752688172 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2443.0 1977.66487455 124% => OK
No of words: 457.0 407.700716846 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.34573304158 4.8611393121 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62358717085 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9788134441 2.67179642975 111% => OK
Unique words: 231.0 212.727598566 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505470459519 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 762.3 618.680645161 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 9.59856630824 125% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.6003584229 141% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.1344086022 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.048053054 48.9658058833 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 84.2413793103 100.406767564 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.7586206897 20.6045352989 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.44827586207 5.45110844103 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => 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: 12.0 4.88709677419 246% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.222666186501 0.236089414692 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0658936621329 0.076458572812 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0543275439112 0.0737576698707 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131781183181 0.150856017488 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0257053619233 0.0645574589148 40% => 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: 11.6 11.7677419355 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.79 58.1214874552 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.1575268817 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.45 10.9000537634 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.28 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 113.0 86.8835125448 130% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.002688172 70% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.0537634409 80% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => 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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