My Personal,Social and Academic Culture Shock Experience

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My Personal,Social and Academic Culture Shock Experience

Submitted by TEMI on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 08:26

Coming to Kenya felt like the beginning of new and exciting experiences for me. I was so anxious and I could not wait to be in Kenya.

On arrival at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport,Nairobi everything around me looked and felt different I didn't feel normal. The way they dressed and communicated with each other using Swahili being unable to comprehend what they were saying I started feeling left out. What felt more worse was I couldn't still understand the way they spoke English because their accent was different which I later realised that the kikuyi's pronounce "l" as "r" that is pr...

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The essay is long, we separated it to two parts to evaluate:

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Attribute Value Ideal
Score: 6 out of 6
Category: Excellent Excellent
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No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
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No. of Words: 436 350
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No. of Different Words: 246 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.57 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.498 4.6
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No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 87 80
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No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.25 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 17.964 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.375 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.316 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.514 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.125 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5

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Category: Excellent Excellent
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No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 117 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 79 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 46 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.444 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.946 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.444 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.294 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.398 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.115 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5