All university students should be required to take history courses no matter what their study of field is.
It is hard to deny that learning world history seems to mean nothing to students majored in computer science may mislead impressionable people to generate the idea that not all university students should learn history courses. However, such a statement suffers from both logical and factual fallacies, and it should be examined meticulously. As far as course difficulty, global perspective, ethical value are concerned, I strongly hold that all college students should take history courses no matter what their study field is.
First and foremost, history classes are easy for students to pass and they are not students’ burden at all. From my own experience of learning history as a student majoring in computer science, teachers seldom launch homework in written form and most of them includes reading books. Teachers are more amiable and always give high scores. Almost no one will fail in the history courses in China as long as they come to class orderly. Since it is such an easy thing to learn history and get high scores, the point that history courses are painful should be buried.
Furthermore, the truth that learning history will broaden students’ horizon indicates that they can form a global perspective which is indispensable to their career. Take the case of Mao Zedong, the great leader of Chinese Communist Party, who has read Chinese ancient books of history and politic over and over, uses history as the ruler to give proper decision so that he always wins. He once said that learning history can not only make self-reflection and criticism but also foresee the future. Had it not been for Mao to read history and do self-reflection, he may never judge the right situation to China and never lead Chinese people to establish a better world.
Nevertheless, a voice arises that students majored in computer science won’t use any history in their work at all. However, such a statement neglects the most basic thing that a person’s work should be leaded by right value especially the right ethical value. Historical experience and the ending of historical figures can suggest what a person should be like in the society. History will somehow prevent people from committing crime and do the right things to be a better man.
In a nutshell, I maintain that all university students should be required to take history courses no matter what their study of field is. Admittedly, as my favourite quote from James Madison goes, as long as the reason of man continues fallible, different opinions will be formed, and someone may oppose me. However, I believe they will compromise after being exposed to my article.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, nevertheless, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 9.8082437276 184% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 43.0788530466 79% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 52.1666666667 84% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.0752688172 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2205.0 1977.66487455 111% => OK
No of words: 438.0 407.700716846 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03424657534 4.8611393121 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57476223824 4.48103885553 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64099993036 2.67179642975 99% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 212.727598566 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.51598173516 0.524837075471 98% => OK
syllable_count: 682.2 618.680645161 110% => 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: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.94265232975 61% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.991473492 48.9658058833 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.052631579 100.406767564 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0526315789 20.6045352989 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.42105263158 5.45110844103 63% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 11.8709677419 59% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88709677419 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.479328009429 0.236089414692 203% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.150610440007 0.076458572812 197% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.195962540369 0.0737576698707 266% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.289804123292 0.150856017488 192% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.150854451968 0.0645574589148 234% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 11.7677419355 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 58.1214874552 83% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 10.1575268817 121% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 10.9000537634 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 86.8835125448 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.002688172 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.247311828 137% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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