All university students should be required to take history courses no matter what their field of study is

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All university students should be required to take history courses no matter what their field of study is.

A course on history helps the apprentices to know profoundly about the culture, race, inheritance of our past. Therefore, the importance of having knowledge about the history is unquestionable. However, mandating the course for every prospective graduate will be an inappropriate decision and I strongly oppose the idea. I will demonstrate my position with three specific reasons throughout the article.

First of all, history course is not helpful in any way for every university graduate. More specifically, students who are majoring in different subject areas such as engineering or business background will not be benefitted at all from the outcomes of history class. Students from engineering background, for instance, need to do a lot of hands on experiments, projects and then analyze the findings. These require a lot of efforts as well as passions and it will be demotivating for them if they are forced to spend their precious time in comprehending historical knowledge. I can illustate it with my own experience. I was a major in programming and I have to take one compulsory history course about my country. Despite the contents were offered with positive intentions, me and my classmates were utterly perturbed about the course. We had to study hard about it and we missed many programming contests. Even one of my friends lost the opportunity to give an interview for a job at Google. Therefore, enforcing the university students to learn about history as mandatory is not effective and benevolent.

Secondly, history course requires money. In order to gain some real life experiences, the curriculum of the history courses is arranged in a holistic way that requires both theoretical and practical knowledge of the students. As a consequence, students are forced to visit many historical places and museums which is not cheap. Sometimes students are sent abroad for a period within the semester to make a report about the culture. Although in most of cases, the university pay for it, students also have to bear the additional costs for their accomodations. It often costs an arm and a leg for many parents to manage the funds. For example, I was obligated to make a trip to India along with my mates to make a short note on Tajmohol. My parents couldn't manage the funds and I had to lend money from my best friend which still made me ashamed. Therefore, making the course compulsory will add financial burdens to many families like me.

Last but not the least, students hardly learn something new from the course. Most of the university students had to take history subject in their grad school or college level. Students are admitted to university to learn something new. However, history course doesn't contain significant new information. Rather, it just refreshes the students about the past lessons. For example, in my history course offered in the university, I had been taught about the history of emergence of Bangladesh. I had already the relevant knowledge from the very early of my school days. So repeated exposures to the contents made the course dull and boring to me.

To summarize, despite the importance, it would be impractical decision to make hisotry course compulsory to every university student and I will never vie with the idea.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Consider replacing "in a holistic way" with adverb for "holistic"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
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Message: After 'most of', you should use 'the' ('most of the cases') or simply say ''most cases''.
Suggestion: most of the cases; most cases
...a report about the culture. Although in most of cases, the university pay for it, students al...
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... something new. However, history course doesnt contain significant new information. Ra...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, still, then, therefore, well, for example, for instance, such as, as well as, first of all

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.0286738351 36% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 41.0 43.0788530466 95% => OK
Preposition: 80.0 52.1666666667 153% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.0752688172 111% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2740.0 1977.66487455 139% => OK
No of words: 540.0 407.700716846 132% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07407407407 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82057051367 4.48103885553 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92654939443 2.67179642975 110% => OK
Unique words: 268.0 212.727598566 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.496296296296 0.524837075471 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 888.3 618.680645161 144% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 9.59856630824 135% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.86738351254 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.94265232975 101% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 32.0 20.6003584229 155% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.1344086022 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.8137202684 48.9658058833 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 85.625 100.406767564 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.875 20.6045352989 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.46875 5.45110844103 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.5376344086 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.85842293907 233% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 14.0 4.88709677419 286% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.265327448957 0.236089414692 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0734147017243 0.076458572812 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.064233023557 0.0737576698707 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.15916682238 0.150856017488 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0461626693308 0.0645574589148 72% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 11.7677419355 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 58.1214874552 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.1575268817 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.83 10.9000537634 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.01818996416 102% => OK
difficult_words: 127.0 86.8835125448 146% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.0537634409 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
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