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.
Recently, scholars are having a debate on whether history classes are essential for college students. Some hold the opinion that not all students, especially not those that are in the scientific field, should be required to take such courses. Yet, in my point of view, I agree that this requirement should exist.
First and foremost, taking history courses can help us gain more understanding on how countries and cultures build up around the world. The more knowledge students have in their minds, the more they can broaden their view as they communicate and share stories with people from different backgrounds. For example, a lot of universities are promoting international programs, which provides opportunities for students to visit abroad or meet foreign people within their own country. Students will find it captivating when talking to other people, sharing histories of countries of each other, and exchanging perspectives on past events. Sometimes they will be surprised that people have completely reversed thoughts on those, which can expand their horizons. Without a doubt, if they do not take history courses and learn those, they will not be able to discuss these.
Second, taking history courses can help students appreciate their culture more. In university history courses, instead of merely memorizing all materials and take tests, students have chances to take a closer look at how some historical giants and occasions pose an immense impact on our society. For instance, I learned about how a revolutionary literature-related act has greatly influenced how articles are written today during a college history class. It definitely helped me with obtaining a sense of appreciating my own culture.
Lastly, it is common sense that people should learn from the past. History courses in universities can offer students information on how people reacted to different situations, or effects from how they behaved. Therefore, students can learn from those people about what is wrong or right. For example, students often read stories of young Chinese emperors wasting their money and omitting all their jobs. For those stories, students can know that these will lead to miserable endings.
To sum up, I consider it crucial for university students to take history courses, no matter what their field of study is, since such classes supplement students with abilities which cannot be neglected.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, lastly, look, second, so, therefore, for example, for instance, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 9.8082437276 153% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 43.0788530466 93% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 52.1666666667 90% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2038.0 1977.66487455 103% => OK
No of words: 380.0 407.700716846 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.36315789474 4.8611393121 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41515443553 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76863617335 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 212.727598566 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.568421052632 0.524837075471 108% => OK
syllable_count: 614.7 618.680645161 99% => 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: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => 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: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.3660797284 48.9658058833 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.263157895 100.406767564 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 20.6045352989 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.42105263158 5.45110844103 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => 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: 0.339985981752 0.236089414692 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103459295152 0.076458572812 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0769259791999 0.0737576698707 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.209959246331 0.150856017488 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0697771619956 0.0645574589148 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 11.7677419355 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 10.9000537634 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.83 8.01818996416 110% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 86.8835125448 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.247311828 137% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, lastly, look, second, so, therefore, for example, for instance, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 9.8082437276 153% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 13.8261648746 80% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 43.0788530466 93% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 52.1666666667 90% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 8.0752688172 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2038.0 1977.66487455 103% => OK
No of words: 380.0 407.700716846 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.36315789474 4.8611393121 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41515443553 4.48103885553 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76863617335 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 212.727598566 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.568421052632 0.524837075471 108% => OK
syllable_count: 614.7 618.680645161 99% => 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: 3.0 3.08781362007 97% => 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: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.3660797284 48.9658058833 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.263157895 100.406767564 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 20.6045352989 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.42105263158 5.45110844103 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.53405017921 110% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 11.8709677419 84% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => 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: 0.339985981752 0.236089414692 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103459295152 0.076458572812 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0769259791999 0.0737576698707 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.209959246331 0.150856017488 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0697771619956 0.0645574589148 108% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 11.7677419355 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 10.9000537634 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.83 8.01818996416 110% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 86.8835125448 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.002688172 110% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 10.247311828 137% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.