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 chose chemistry as my major and I took many courses which require doing chemical 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 take an extra course and had to spend additional hours doing a history assignment. The overwhelming workload made us burnt out, thus 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 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 gain history knowledge by studying themselves or searching for information online. Companies and factories require students who are able to harness cutting-edge technologies rather than historical knowledge. In this point of view, learning history is unnecessary except for history majors.
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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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, 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 : 16.0 15.1003584229 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 35.0 43.0788530466 81% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 52.1666666667 94% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2267.0 1977.66487455 115% => OK
No of words: 428.0 407.700716846 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.29672897196 4.8611393121 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.548423998 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96050349903 2.67179642975 111% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 212.727598566 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.525700934579 0.524837075471 100% => OK
syllable_count: 709.2 618.680645161 115% => 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: 15.0 20.1344086022 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.5989590721 48.9658058833 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.962962963 100.406767564 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.8518518519 20.6045352989 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.44444444444 5.45110844103 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => 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: 0.210811587348 0.236089414692 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.062554028659 0.076458572812 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0548303224857 0.0737576698707 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.126967097514 0.150856017488 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0117652789059 0.0645574589148 18% => 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: 11.5 11.7677419355 98% => 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: 13.16 10.9000537634 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.33 8.01818996416 104% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 86.8835125448 123% => 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: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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