Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? All university students should be required to take history courses no matter what their field of study is

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Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? All university students should be required to take history courses no matter what their field of study is

It is widely known that history, which is associated with nationalities and races tightly, is a very important subject for anyone to understand our past, present, and future. An absence of knowledge in history would not only lead to repeats of our failures, but also gaps in our awareness of our cultural and species. Nowadays, nearly all high schools and primary schools tend to require students to take history courses. Some people even assume that history courses are necessary for all university students. However, are history courses really generating substantial differences in higher education? Quite contrary to the common idea of forcing history learnings, I believe that university students shouldn’t be required to take history courses for two main reasons.

Firstly, many university students don't need advanced history knowledge. Granted, knowing certain historical events and common backgrounds would be important in tracing back to our roots, there’s many other things that college students should be focusing on during their extensive academic pursuits. Actually, for most students, university is the place where they learn career-building skills and career-based knowledge. General knowledge should be electives, which means that most university history courses provided at advanced levels should be available to students that are associated with the major, or those that are extremely interested. With that regard, students could get general history knowledge from their pre-undergraduate studies, which might be very likely to have little contribution to their college major. For instance, as a university student who’s majoring in biology, I have found advanced not as practical. My knowledge of history learned before college is enough for my daily life, whether it’s talking with others about history events or knowing how to celebrate a holiday. For my academics, since biology is updated very quickly, I need to consistently delve into the up-to-date biological papers and materials; even the history of biology could not help our research, since the research methods have changed drastically in recent years.

Moreover, history courses could easily consume the students’ time and money. In order to supply students with decent education and well-designed courses, universities need a large amount of money, therefore most universities’ tuitions are expensive. Additionally, university courses are often held high standards, which means that enrolled students must spend certain amount of time to catch up with the learning materials and assignments. Since university students are always busy with a variety of academic tasks, student activities, and even part-time jobs to relieve financial burdens, students would very likely to be annoyed by the education expenses. The addition of required history courses would be an unwise and inconsiderate idea. Imagine there is a student who is majoring in technology and is required to take history courses by the university. The student would be not only facing more workload but also more financial pressure, which might lead anger, anxieties, depression and other issues that many college students are facing. Despite the mental struggles, an unwilling student would definitely not learn much from the course besides wasting all the time and money.

In conclusion, while history courses are vital to our cultural and lives, the requirement of general historical should be implemented throughout primary school to high school. University students, on the other hand, should be encouraged to pursue they academic and career interests that would pay back their enormous investments.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, besides, but, first, firstly, however, if, moreover, really, so, therefore, well, while, for instance, in conclusion, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 15.1003584229 192% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 9.8082437276 214% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 21.0 13.8261648746 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.0286738351 172% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 43.0788530466 77% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 52.1666666667 130% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3138.0 1977.66487455 159% => OK
No of words: 552.0 407.700716846 135% => OK
Chars per words: 5.6847826087 4.8611393121 117% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84713113593 4.48103885553 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91546694202 2.67179642975 109% => OK
Unique words: 277.0 212.727598566 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.501811594203 0.524837075471 96% => OK
syllable_count: 984.6 618.680645161 159% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.51630824373 119% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 9.59856630824 52% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.6003584229 117% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.1344086022 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.0389811157 48.9658058833 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.75 100.406767564 130% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 20.6045352989 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.29166666667 5.45110844103 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => 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: 7.0 4.88709677419 143% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.318404014214 0.236089414692 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.11068339652 0.076458572812 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0584016781517 0.0737576698707 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.21528825592 0.150856017488 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0275675438727 0.0645574589148 43% => 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: 16.8 11.7677419355 143% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 31.21 58.1214874552 54% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 6.10430107527 183% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 10.1575268817 144% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.96 10.9000537634 146% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.27 8.01818996416 116% => OK
difficult_words: 157.0 86.8835125448 181% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.0537634409 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.247311828 117% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.

So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:

reasons == advantages or

reasons == disadvantages

for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.


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