Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the

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Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.

There has been debates on whether it should be mandatory for university students to participate international exchange programs. Some people claim that studying in a foreign country is a rewarding experience that every student should give it a try during his or her university life. Although I concede that joining internaltional exchange programs do lead to many advantages, I do not think the advantages overweigh the drawbacks if schools make it become compulsory.

People who are in favor of the policy proposed by the prompt statement may argue that participating internation exchange programs helps students grow up fast and broaden their horizons. By traveling alone, exploring new environment, experiencing new culture and interacting with different people, students get to know how big the world is and how different one's life can be. While learning in a foreign countrys seems tempting, we should not ignore that it also has many disavantages.

Primarily, it takes time and effort to settle down in a new places and adjust to new environments. Students who exchange to a different country need to deal with the visa, bank account, health care insurance, mobile phone data plans and probably also driving license. These trivial things will waste them a lot of time. They would also need to pay for the flight tickets, accommandation, and tuition fees which may become a heavy financial burden for some of them. Moreover, learning a foreign language is also a daunting task. Students need to devote so much time in learning and practicing the language that they might have no time to study for courses.

In addition, there are other opportunities such as international internship or summer research programs which allow students to gain foreign learning experience. Take myself as an example. I originally planed to participate in a exchange program this academic year. Yet, later I got the offer of Cisco international internship program which allows my to come to Silicon Valley to work as a software engineer intern for one year. In this internship program, I not only gain the work experience in industry but also get to expand my social network and make friends with 60 other students com from around the world. Should my university require me to participate in exchange programs, I would not have had such a wonderful learning experience.

In conclusion, while I admit that it has some advantages for students to participate in international exchange pregrams, I do not think schools should make it mandatory. Not only because it has many drwbacks that make exchange experience not as favorable as it seems, but the compulsory policy would constrain students' freedom of choosing other equally rewarding opportunities.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 228, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, moreover, so, while, in addition, in conclusion, such as

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 19.5258426966 41% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 33.0505617978 124% => OK
Preposition: 46.0 58.6224719101 78% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2302.0 2235.4752809 103% => OK
No of words: 442.0 442.535393258 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20814479638 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58517132086 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97384226939 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 236.0 215.323595506 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.533936651584 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 722.7 704.065955056 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 0.0 4.99550561798 0% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.6078622801 60.3974514979 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.1 118.986275619 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1 23.4991977007 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.8 5.21951772744 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.155515768368 0.243740707755 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0476398092786 0.0831039109588 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0362789415596 0.0758088955206 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0884815377853 0.150359130593 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0200403129615 0.0667264976115 30% => 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: 14.2 14.1392134831 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.51 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 100.480337079 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 11.8971910112 130% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6
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