University students should be required to take history courses no matter what field they study. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
There have been heated debates for the recent years about whether nor not to remove history classes from the curriculums of students whose majors are utterly irrelevant to history. It is reasonable to regard history class as a compulsory course for every student irrespective of their majors because this is beneficial to not only quality education but also an improvement in students' transferable skills.
History classes, especially those related to their own countries, are intact part of a well-rounded educational system. Through the history courses, students can acquire knowledge about historical events and celebrities, be illuminated by the wisdom of them, and develop a sense of identity about their nation. What students gain in the history class, with the assistance of sound academic performance gained from major subjects, makes a student a well-rounded student. Those students are more likely to make as much contribution as possible to society because they are willing to and able to. Otherwise, a student without a sense of identity might not contribute effectively to his country because he might emigrate to other countries which are more appealing.
Meanwhile, history classes also impart valuable transferable skills to students regardless of their majors and even financial status. Given the fact that they are generally knowledgeable and of excellent critical thinking, professors in history classes can help students, through in-class debates, lectures, and discussion, analyse an event from various aspects and dimensions so that they help students fosters critical thinking, rational, and many other merits as their virtues. Those transferable skills are critically important not only for advanced education but also for a sound working performance and clear career path. In fact, a student who enrols in a master degree of biology is more likely to resolve problems in experiments with the assistance of critical thinking; likewise, an employee who can rationally analyse and address adversity in work is more appealing to employers.
On balance, never should history courses be excluded from the curriculum of any college students, considering the benefits brought by a well-rounded educational system as well as those transferable skills.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, likewise, so, well, while, in fact, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 13.1623246493 106% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 10.4138276553 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 7.30460921844 82% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 41.998997996 119% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 8.3376753507 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1932.0 1615.20841683 120% => OK
No of words: 345.0 315.596192385 109% => OK
Chars per words: 5.6 5.12529762239 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3097767484 4.20363070211 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9482407472 2.80592935109 105% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 176.041082164 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.55652173913 0.561755894193 99% => OK
syllable_count: 612.9 506.74238477 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.60771543086 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 5.43587174349 55% => OK
Article: 3.0 2.52805611222 119% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.10420841683 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 0.809619238477 371% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.76152304609 126% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 16.0721442886 75% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 28.0 20.2975951904 138% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 62.7217731998 49.4020404114 127% => OK
Chars per sentence: 161.0 106.682146367 151% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.75 20.7667163134 138% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.75 7.06120827912 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.67935871743 92% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.9879759519 50% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 3.4128256513 59% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.150741288949 0.244688304435 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0597478546024 0.084324248473 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0389568363598 0.0667982634062 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0970117530167 0.151304729494 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0263029464091 0.056905535591 46% => 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: 19.3 13.0946893788 147% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 26.14 50.2224549098 52% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 7.44779559118 150% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.6 11.3001002004 147% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.79 12.4159519038 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.79 8.58950901804 114% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 78.4519038076 133% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 16.0 9.78957915832 163% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 10.1190380762 130% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 10.7795591182 148% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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