Do you agree or disagree with following statement: All the university students should take history courses no matter what field they major in.
University courses lay a very solid academic foundation for the future development of college students. Facing the great selections of these courses, some people say that history classes should be made compulsory for college students, for the reason that they could be more familiar with the advancement and evolution of human society. I disagree. I believe, despite minor merits, asking students of all majors to attend history classes would cause problems.
Initially, history courses would put more academic pressures on students. College students have already had to study many theories and professional subjects related to their majors and their schedule is very tight. For example, a medical student is not only obliged to finish his professional papers for credit, but he also needs to find the opportunity to get clinical experience. His load is so heavy that he could not afford to take any irrelevant courses, such as history. In this case, schools should not add this course, because students would worry whether they are able to finish their homework on time and how likely they would pass final examinations.
In addition, a required history course would lead to unnecessary costs for parents and students. To guarantee the quality of lecturing, colleges have to hire talented and senior history professors and experts, such as those from the best-known universities of history institutes. This would increase the cost of schooling. Normally, a lecture given by a famous history professor costs over 1,000 dollars, and these costs would be reflected in the tuition fee, which would deprive many underprivileged students of an opportunity for education.
Admittedly, taking history courses does have its merits. On one hand, students could learn to prevent repeating the mistakes off the past. For instance, they would learn about the cause of the world wars and other bloody battles that claimed the lives of millions. On the other hand, students could also gain a better understanding of current issues by studying historical events. For example, by studying the American Revolution a student could be enlightened on the current world democracy. However, this knowledge could be acquired by other method other than required courses; history seminars, TV documentaries and comparable books are all available options for students to learn about history.
In conclusion, although there are some small benefits of requiring a history course, making every college student take a history course would overburdened the students both academically and financially. In addition, the small advantage that a required history course would provide can be obtained other ways.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 17, column 143, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'would' requires the base form of the verb: 'overburden'
Suggestion: overburden
...ege student take a history course would overburdened the students both academically and fina...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, so, for example, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 9.8082437276 204% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 12.0 13.8261648746 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 43.0788530466 60% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 52.1666666667 90% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 8.0752688172 136% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2281.0 1977.66487455 115% => OK
No of words: 418.0 407.700716846 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.45693779904 4.8611393121 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52162009685 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76757347226 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 227.0 212.727598566 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.543062200957 0.524837075471 103% => OK
syllable_count: 707.4 618.680645161 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.94265232975 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.1599162576 48.9658058833 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.05 100.406767564 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9 20.6045352989 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.25 5.45110844103 96% => 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: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.191326182248 0.236089414692 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0621451974563 0.076458572812 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0408567327679 0.0737576698707 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120397713732 0.150856017488 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0255965775279 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: 14.7 11.7677419355 125% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 58.1214874552 74% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.1575268817 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.39 10.9000537634 132% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.09 8.01818996416 113% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 86.8835125448 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.247311828 146% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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