University students should be required to take history courses no matter what field they study.
Now in many universities, students have many chances to take courses from other majors than their own. Taking courses from other major is of great importance to broaden students’ horizon and discover the interconnection between different disciplines. But when it comes to whether students should be required to take history courses whatever they major in, I hold the opposite opinion.
History courses do have importance in university students’ study. By taking history courses, students can learn from the past, preventing themselves from making the same mistakes, and helping themselves to face a similar situation to the past. However, students should have the right to decide whether they want to take history courses or not. If history courses become compulsory to all the university students, their study may have more stress and tension to take courses that they are not really interested in.
Besides, for students majoring in science and engineering, compulsory history courses make few contributions to their career. A science and engineering student will have many basic courses to take, like advanced mathematics, statistics, physics and chemistry fundamentals and so on. These courses are important and usually cost students much time to learn and digest. Spending time on taking extra history courses may become their burden because history, as a social science discipline, have different study objects. In natural sciences we study nature and universe, while in social science we study people and society. From my own experience in university, I have chances to choose courses beside my major chemistry, so I choose courses from other science and engineering major such as environmental analysis, engineering drawing and so on. I think these courses inspired me on my career decision to an environmental engineer. History courses possibly wouldn’t play the same role as these science and engineering courses.
Furthermore, if history courses become compulsory to all the students, not only the students but also the history professors will have more work load. Professors have their research and need to balance between teaching and doing research. Besides, as the teaching assignments become heavy since history courses become compulsory, more teaching assistants will be needed. Then, too much teaching resources will be costed in providing history to all university students.
To sum up, even though learning history is beneficial for students to develop their mind and merit, taking history courses should not be compulsory to all university students.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 985, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this science' or 'these sciences'?
Suggestion: this science; these sciences
...possibly wouldn’t play the same role as these science and engineering courses. Furthermor...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, furthermore, however, if, may, really, so, then, while, i think, such as, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 15.1003584229 53% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 13.8261648746 145% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 11.0286738351 18% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 43.0788530466 60% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 52.1666666667 98% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 8.0752688172 149% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2193.0 1977.66487455 111% => OK
No of words: 396.0 407.700716846 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.53787878788 4.8611393121 114% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46091344257 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82440548618 2.67179642975 106% => OK
Unique words: 193.0 212.727598566 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.487373737374 0.524837075471 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 684.9 618.680645161 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.51792114695 171% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 20.1344086022 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 39.0221411509 48.9658058833 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.65 100.406767564 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8 20.6045352989 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.15 5.45110844103 94% => 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 : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.370874005106 0.236089414692 157% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.14008734453 0.076458572812 183% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0917740639213 0.0737576698707 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.25014116799 0.150856017488 166% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0739327923017 0.0645574589148 115% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 11.7677419355 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 58.1214874552 75% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 10.1575268817 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.85 10.9000537634 136% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.01818996416 102% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 86.8835125448 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 10.0537634409 95% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.247311828 146% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.