Argumentative Essay on whether university students should be forced to attend all the classes

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Argumentative Essay on whether university students should be forced to attend all the classes

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A debate has been brought forward regarding the issue of whether university students should be forced to attend all the classes, or whether attending classes should be optional to the students. Weighing the benefits of attending all the classes and having an option of whether to attend or not, gives the best option in the debate. Emanating from the benefits that attending all the classes has on the students, I would argue that university students should be required to attend classes.

One of the reasons why students should be required to attend classes is because students have the benefit of receiving teacher’s knowledge. Tutors are usually knowledgeable in the specific areas that they teach and this knowledge cannot be replaced by other reading materials that students opt to use rather than attending classes. Whatever is written in the books gives a less practical example than what the teacher teaches in class; the tutor will, in most cases, provide practical examples to match what he is teaching, but books or other reading materials may not. Therefore, attending all classes equips a student with not only theoretical knowledge, but also practical knowledge. Besides, students should be required to attend classes in order to keep focused on the studies. Attendance of classes makes students concentrate on their studies because once in class, they will avoid out of class businesses and activities, thus tune their minds to studies. If classes were optional, it would be exceedingly difficult to keep students focused on their studies since they would irregularly attend classes making it difficult to keep in touch with whatever the lecturer is teaching. Therefore, attending clas.............