All university students should be required to take history courses no matter what their field of study is.
University courses lay a very solid academic foundation for the future development of college students. Facing the great selections of these courses, some people say that, history classes are compulsory for college students, for the reason that they could be more familiar with the advancement and evolution of human society. I disagree. I believe, despite minor merits, asking student of all majors to attend history classes would cause problems.
History courses would put more academic pressure on students. College students have already had to study many theory and professional subjects related to their majors and their schedule is very tight. For example, a medical student is not only obliged to finish his professional papers for credit, but he also needs to find the opportunity to get clinical experience. His load is so heavy that he could not afford to take any irrelevant courses, such as history. In this case, schools should not add this course, because students would worry whether they could finish their homework on time and how they would pass final examinations.
A required history course would lead to unnecessary cost for parents and students. To guarantee quality of lecturing, colleges have to hire talented and senior history professors and experts, such as those from the best-known universities or history research institutes. This would increase the cost of schooling. Normally, a lecture given by a famous history professor costs over 1,000 dollars. These costs would be reflected in the tuition fee, and would deprive many underprivileged students of an opportunity for education.
Admittedly, taking history courses does have its merits. Students could learn to prevent repeating the mistakes of the past. For instance, they would learn about the cause of the world wars and other bloody battles that claimed the lives of millions. Students could also gain a better understanding of current issues by studying historical events. For example, by studying the American Revolution a student could be enlightened on the current world democracy. However, this knowledge could be acquired by other method other than required courses. History seminars, TV documentaries and books are all available options for student to learn about history.
In conclusion, although there are some small benefits to requiring a history course, making every college student take a history course would overburdened the students both academically and financially. In addition, the small advantage that a required history course would give could be obtained other ways.
- All university students should be required to take history courses no matter what their field of study is. 90
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- It is important to know about events happening around the world, even if it is unlikely that they will affect your daily life. 73
- All university students should be required to take history courses no matter what their field of study is. 80
- All university students should be required to take history courses no matter what their field of study is. 90
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 105, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun theory seems to be countable; consider using: 'many theories'.
Suggestion: many theories
...lege students have already had to study many theory and professional subjects related to th...
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Line 5, column 143, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'would' requires the base form of the verb: 'overburden'
Suggestion: overburden
...ege student take a history course would overburdened the students both academically and fina...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, so, for example, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 15.1003584229 73% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 9.8082437276 204% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 13.0 13.8261648746 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.0286738351 45% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 43.0788530466 60% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 52.1666666667 81% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 8.0752688172 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2182.0 1977.66487455 110% => OK
No of words: 401.0 407.700716846 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.44139650873 4.8611393121 112% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47492842339 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75855114469 2.67179642975 103% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 212.727598566 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.548628428928 0.524837075471 105% => OK
syllable_count: 679.5 618.680645161 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.94265232975 121% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.6003584229 107% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.1344086022 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.7982405959 48.9658058833 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.1818181818 100.406767564 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2272727273 20.6045352989 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.90909090909 5.45110844103 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 3.85842293907 181% => 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: 0.276709783521 0.236089414692 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0836376558475 0.076458572812 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0549838744169 0.0737576698707 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169371269699 0.150856017488 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0454767688637 0.0645574589148 70% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 11.7677419355 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 58.1214874552 77% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 10.1575268817 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.27 10.9000537634 131% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.18 8.01818996416 114% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 86.8835125448 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 10.002688172 115% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.0537634409 92% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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