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
I do not agree with the statement that history courses should be mandatory for all university students no matter what their field of study is because students in health care disciplines do not have time to take courses that are not related to their field. Also, for some students it can be difficult to understand concepts of courses that are not related to their field of study.
University students have a busy schedule especially students in a health care field. They not only have theoretical exams but they also have clinical exams and to prepare for their clinical exams, they spend most of their time in different clinics. In addition to morning clinical rotation in different departments, they also have rotation in evening and weekend clinics. After doing their clinics, they do not have enough time for themselves to relax or to hang out with their friends or family members. According to some recent research, healthcare discipline is one of the most stressful careers and the burn-out rate is higher in health care professionals and is mainly due to imbalance between their student and personal lives. Although history courses can give some extra knowledge to university students, they can increase the stress level of medical or dental school students. Therefore, history courses should not be mandatory for all university students.
University students can have a hard time understanding the concepts of courses that are not related to their field. Consequently, they will waste a lot of their study time in clarifying those new and difficult ideas. Since they do not have a background knowledge of history courses, they may become frustrated and may not be able to perform which can badly affect their overall GPA. For instance, in some developing countries like Pakistan, university students are required to take mandatory courses including history, geography and Islamic studies in their first university year and many students there especially international students have a difficult time in understanding those courses. Despite their hard work and struggle, most of them are not able to understand those courses. As a result, they not only drop-out from university but they also do not stay in Pakistan and go back to their own countries. Although some students can manage the challenge of learning new courses, others cannot handle the stress related to new courses. So, universities should be flexible and should not force students to take particular courses.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, if, may, so, therefore, for instance, in addition, of course, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 9.8082437276 143% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 13.8261648746 123% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.0286738351 45% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 36.0 43.0788530466 84% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 52.1666666667 98% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2086.0 1977.66487455 105% => OK
No of words: 401.0 407.700716846 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20199501247 4.8611393121 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47492842339 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71951968914 2.67179642975 102% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 212.727598566 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.443890274314 0.524837075471 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 648.9 618.680645161 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 9.59856630824 94% => OK
Article: 0.0 3.08781362007 0% => 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: 17.0 20.6003584229 83% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.6147760106 48.9658058833 126% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.705882353 100.406767564 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5882352941 20.6045352989 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.17647058824 5.45110844103 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.53405017921 66% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 11.8709677419 51% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 3.85842293907 207% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.298187299292 0.236089414692 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.120027938939 0.076458572812 157% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.117406654639 0.0737576698707 159% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.268355832169 0.150856017488 178% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.127094436062 0.0645574589148 197% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 11.7677419355 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 58.1214874552 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.1575268817 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.18 10.9000537634 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.08 8.01818996416 101% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 86.8835125448 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.002688172 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.247311828 137% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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We are expecting: No. of Words: 350 while No. of Different Words: 200
Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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