Nowadays, there is a heatedly debated controversy in schools about whether students should be required to take history courses. Some people maintain that it is detrimental to force students who do not like history but may be talented in other subjects, such as biology or math, to take history classes. Other people, in contrast, insist that education is not complete without history courses, for it (If you're referring to 'history courses', then this should be 'they'.) plays such a significant role in our lives. As far as I am concerned, I am totally in favor of the latter idea. Among the countless reasons and factors that can strengthen my view point, I will present the most conspicuous ones here.
To begin with, history classes provide us with good opportunities to learn about our past, which is beneficial to our future. So much valuable information that we can learn from the history classes, that recently a growing number of schools are adding history classes to all of their students? ('adding classes to students'?). For example, by understanding history of how the government is formed step by step, from several people gathering and discussing some common issues at first, to a powerful organization that connected to the fate of the country, we are able to appreciate the important role the government plays today, may be even more willingly to participate in the politics. Therefore, the more we learn from the history, the better we can contribute to our society at present and in the future.
In addition, behind my viewpoint lies an equally important factor that reading history books is also an effective approach to relaxation. It is widely acknowledged that students nowadays are spending more time on homework. According to a recent survey, fifty percent of the students are suffering from the physical ailments caused by the studying. However, students can find copious numbers of interesting stories in history. For instance, someone whose major is biology may be attracted by the life of Darwin, how he discovered (A 'theory' is not 'discovered', but 'formulated' and 'proposed'.) the theory of evolution and how he dealt with a large amount number of difficulties in his life. In a word, despite? music and sports, history is becoming a more and more appealing way for people to get relaxed. (These two paragraphs are well argued, but they failed to address the few important aspects highlighted by the question: university students..no matter what field they study in. This means that you need to stress that the merits of history will benefit university students of all majors. You're aruging more along the line that history is generally good and useful for the general population, but not much on why the question specifically mentions university students and other fields of study, and whether such details are important to your discussion. In other words, you're not establishing a very clear scope with regard to the question. This doesn't hurt your arguments very much, but it'd be good if you could do it in the opening paragraph, because it shows that you understand the question clearly, and enables you to write very relevant, specific responses.)
Admittedly, good as taking history classes is, it has its own problems. It is worth noting that history classes would be terrible experience for those who hate history or those who are relatively weak at memorizing history events. However, the advantages of providing history classes for all the students in the schools carry much more weight than its disadvantages.
From what have been discussed above, we can safely reach the conclusion that despite some minor drawbacks, learning history is instrumental to all the students in that is can not only help us make the right decisions (This was not in your essay. Your first point was about contributing to the society.) in the future but also can offer some fun. 总结: 总体来说没有什么太大的问题。注意一下结尾段要和文中的论点相符合,不要写出文章里没说到的东西来。。另外就是题目本身是很细节的,所以如果能在开头注意一下这些细节,做一些针对性的综述,而不是泛泛的综述,能够更加显示你对题目的理解。 |