Some people think studying from the past offers no benefits to today’s life, while others believe history is a valuable source of information for us. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.
People hold divergent views as to whether or not learning from history is beneficial to our lives. Both sides of the argument will be discussed in this essay, followed by my own perspective on this matter that learning history is of paramount importance in our life.
People supporting the idea that studying history is useless may put forth the following reasons. First of all, some old traditions are contradictory to present practices, the insistence of them drags down the working efficiency. For example, writing letters, rather than sending emails, which is still favoured by many senior workers have jeopardised the working effectiveness in many companies. Additionally, experience drawn only from history may misguide people’s behaviours, leading to failures in their life. This is because in such an eye-catching developed society, some old experience has already out of date. Sticking to them will undoubtedly cause personal lose in life.
However, those who believe learning from the past is valuable also possess some sound points. To begin with, learning history helps people build connection with the previous generations, thereby enhancing their national identities. For instance, history class is an essential subject in China’s curriculum system. It is by learning historic stories that improved the sense of national identity of Chinese children. Furthermore, it is widely accepted that history contains and reflects traditional values. Learning from history is able to assist individuals building correct moral value systems, which will help them to develop into the capable and contributive member of that society.
From my point of view, learning history is of great importance. Although it does have some drawbacks, the strengths of it are more than capable to counteract its weaknesses. Therefore, I firmly support the idea that the value of history should not be disregarded.
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some old traditions are contradictory to present practices, the insistence of them drags down the working efficiency.
Description: 'them' refers to what? Be sensitive to use pronouns.
writing letters, rather than sending emails, which is still favoured by many senior workers have jeopardised the working effectiveness
writing letters, rather than sending emails, which is still favoured by many senior workers has jeopardised the working effectiveness
Sentence: Learning from history is able to assist individuals building correct moral value systems, which will help them to develop into the capable and contributive member of that society.
Error: contributive Suggestion: No alternate word
flaws:
The reasons in the second paragraph are not exactly correct for the topic: 'studying from the past offers no benefits to today’s life'
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 6.0 out of 9
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 293 350
No. of Characters: 1569 1500
No. of Different Words: 186 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.137 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.355 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.763 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 125 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 110 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 70 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 40 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.235 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.275 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.588 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.314 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.503 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.084 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 29, Rule ID: WHETHER[4]
Message: Wordiness: Shorten this phrase to the shortest possible suggestion.
Suggestion: whether; whether or not; as to whether
People hold divergent views as to whether or not learning from history is beneficial to ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, may, so, still, therefore, as to, for example, for instance, first of all, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 13.1623246493 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 7.85571142285 76% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 10.4138276553 29% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 9.0 7.30460921844 123% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 24.0651302605 104% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 41.998997996 100% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1622.0 1615.20841683 100% => OK
No of words: 293.0 315.596192385 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.53583617747 5.12529762239 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13729897018 4.20363070211 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91941171136 2.80592935109 104% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 176.041082164 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.62457337884 0.561755894193 111% => OK
syllable_count: 497.7 506.74238477 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 2.0 2.52805611222 79% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.76152304609 42% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 16.0721442886 106% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.2975951904 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.5948793264 49.4020404114 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.4117647059 106.682146367 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.2352941176 20.7667163134 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.76470588235 7.06120827912 110% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.01903807615 20% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
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: 0.221830847796 0.244688304435 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0673054106862 0.084324248473 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.04795678371 0.0667982634062 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130116304476 0.151304729494 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0235680459242 0.056905535591 41% => 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: 13.3 13.0946893788 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 50.2224549098 91% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 11.3001002004 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.56 12.4159519038 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.38 8.58950901804 109% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 78.4519038076 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.1190380762 87% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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