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.
Throughout high school, many students have been required to take history courses for four years. As these students graduated, there are debates on whether or not they should continue taking mandatory history courses once they get into university. Although there are certainly benefits for university students to know more about history, they should not be required to take the courses because individually this would distract the student from his or her field of study and also because this can get in the way of developing a more well-rounded and diverse community or even society.
Unlike high school, most of the university students pay for their college education. Many of them choose to go to university because they want to be specialized in a certain field and get well-prepared for their future career. Requiring these students to take certain courses is unfair for them, besides the possibility that they may be interested in the course. Universities should not require their students to pay for classes that they do not want to take. Furthermore, having an extra subject to study for may distract a student from his or her field of study. They would be forced to spend time on studying history, which could have been used to learn more about their own major. After graduating university, these students who have spent less time on their intended major of study would be less competitive compared to other students who have been focusing on one certain field.
Some people may argue that learning about history can make a person more well-rounded, that history can teach one to be a better person and have more insight about the society. However, this is not true because for a person to be well-rounded, there are many other ways besides knowing a lot about what has happened in the past. Things like music, literature, and sports can also make a person life more colorful and teach them important lessons in their life. If a university requires students to take history class, students will have even less spare time to develop all the different kinds of interest besides their fields of study. The society can certainly be more diverse and beautiful when there are people interested in all kinds of things. History is one of them, but definitely not the only one of them. Requiring university students to learn more about history may benefit students who enjoy it, but for many other students who do not enjoy and for the society’s diversity, it is not a good choice to make. Also, the required history during the high school years have already gave students a good foundation of their history knowledge, thus it is unnecessary to require these students to dive more deeply into these subjects if they are not major in it or interested in it.
Universities should not require their students to take history courses. College students are adults and they should have the ability to choose courses that they think is the best for them. As they develop their individual unique interest, which of course includes history but more than history, the community of the campus and even the society outside the college would become more colorful and full of wonder and surprise.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 148, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...tudents graduated, there are debates on whether or not they should continue taking mandatory h...
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Line 5, column 1093, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'given'.
Suggestion: given
...ring the high school years have already gave students a good foundation of their his...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, furthermore, however, if, may, so, thus, well, even so, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 15.1003584229 152% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 9.8082437276 204% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 20.0 13.8261648746 145% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.0286738351 109% => OK
Pronoun: 49.0 43.0788530466 114% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 52.1666666667 132% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.0752688172 25% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2659.0 1977.66487455 134% => OK
No of words: 537.0 407.700716846 132% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95158286778 4.8611393121 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81386128306 4.48103885553 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5328458627 2.67179642975 95% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 212.727598566 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.402234636872 0.524837075471 77% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 853.2 618.680645161 138% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.86738351254 161% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.6003584229 102% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 20.1344086022 124% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 66.1597050777 48.9658058833 135% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.619047619 100.406767564 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.5714285714 20.6045352989 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.04761904762 5.45110844103 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 3.85842293907 130% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.254148286199 0.236089414692 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109776160368 0.076458572812 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0714554005793 0.0737576698707 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.192887201324 0.150856017488 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0188913736244 0.0645574589148 29% => 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: 46.1 58.1214874552 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 10.1575268817 128% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.73 10.9000537634 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.26 8.01818996416 91% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 86.8835125448 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.002688172 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 10.0537634409 119% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.247311828 146% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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