TPO 50- 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. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
It goes without saying that in the current progressive and sophisticated world where we live, the importance of knowing about ancient people is crystal clear. While some people assert it is unnecessary to force students whose major is not related to history to attend history classes, others believe otherwise and claim that students should mandatorily take history courses in university. I strongly support the second group for two main reasons, which I will explain in the following paragraphs.
To begin with, attending history classes gives individuals a chance to learn crucial lessons about past events and utilize these lessons in their personal life. Reading about the country’s history helps people, especially students who are the next leaders and workforces of society, become familiar with their ancestors and how they reacted in various conditions. For example, how last generations countered with their adjacent countries and what they did that had caused their devastating or flourishing. Such historical knowledge would help the politicians to manage the country appropriately. Our government is a compelling example of this. Last year, our country got into trouble with one of our neighboring countries on sharing the water in the boundary yards. Thanks to the lessons had learned from the past events, the politicians decided to negotiate about the problem and solve the matter without any struggling. Had not considered the important lessons of our country’s last war, this problem might lead to a serious quarrel between two countries.
Furthermore, another equally remarkable point is that taking history classes helps individuals become familiar not only with other countries’ history but also with their languages and cultures. Since history, culture, and language are connected, learning history can provide a situation to become familiar with other cultures and languages. As a result, students get a chance to improve their intercultural communication skills by participating in history classes, and after graduation, they can find occupations in international companies. For instance, one of my friends, whose major is civil engineering attended an Italian history class in the third year of his college. The course helped him become familiar with Italian architecture and made my friend keen to learn about their culture. After graduation, he sent his resume to several Italian universities and eventually found a suitable job position there. Now, he is studying and working simultaneously in an international university in Italy and mentions that history class, a valuable course that has changed his professional life.
By taking into account all the above reasons, I believe that it is essential that every student, whatever are their majors, participate in history classes. This is because they learn important lessons about past events and they can become familiar with other countries’ languages and cultures.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, if, second, so, third, while, for example, for instance, as a result, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 9.8082437276 71% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 13.8261648746 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.0286738351 118% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 43.0788530466 102% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 52.1666666667 121% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2512.0 1977.66487455 127% => OK
No of words: 451.0 407.700716846 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.56984478936 4.8611393121 115% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60833598836 4.48103885553 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90120815626 2.67179642975 109% => OK
Unique words: 252.0 212.727598566 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.558758314856 0.524837075471 106% => OK
syllable_count: 770.4 618.680645161 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 4.0 3.08781362007 130% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.1344086022 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.2061585203 48.9658058833 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.6 100.406767564 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.55 20.6045352989 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.35 5.45110844103 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.181853436925 0.236089414692 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0561721298337 0.076458572812 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0435866815829 0.0737576698707 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.114755959679 0.150856017488 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0198411457426 0.0645574589148 31% => 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: 16.1 11.7677419355 137% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 58.1214874552 70% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 10.1575268817 129% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.32 10.9000537634 141% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.93 8.01818996416 111% => OK
difficult_words: 120.0 86.8835125448 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.002688172 140% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.0537634409 107% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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: 78.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 23.5 Out of 30
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