College and university should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country.
It is a well known fact that ‘One cannot make progress without stepping out of the comfort zone’. The author states that colleges should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country. But is this truly necessary to mandate to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country? Some may agree while some would befuddle, as this condition majorly depends on the personal perspective of the student.
The world has different countries, with completely different culture, traditions, methods and techniques. If someone gets the opportunity to experience a different world, other than what he has seen since birth, it would definitely help change his thinking and the working methods. Student who chooses to spend a semester in foreign country would benefit in numerous terms. One would get to witness and learn different languages, cultures, even the eating habits, and of course the life style. Apart from getting to know different cultures, staying away from home helps in developing cooperation skills. A student has been living in the comfort zone of the society, and they depend on it in more ways than they realise. This sudden change in surrounding and the need to be completely independent teaches various aspects of life, the importance of people and how they affect our life. Take been an example, a competitive student from USA, who recently got exchanged with an Asian student, will have to adjust his communication skills, gestures and also the attitude towards the community as well.
Moreover, stepping out of the education system that one has been acquiesced since childhood helps him to recognise the fallacies in these systems. Thinking horizons widens and learning methods get broaden. Take for an example, the education system in India is lull and trite than the education in United Stated. In India, research work, even at Universities, is of far less importance than it is in United Stated, due to which the Indian students have inured with their traditional system of questions and answers based evaluation.
Furthermore, different countries have different level of advancement in their curriculum. Japan and China may be teaching far latest programs as compared to India and United States. Students exposed to such advancement bring home unorthodox knowledge with them.
Conversely, students who are pursuing localized programs, studying language or local culture would say that the need to visit any foreign country for almost half a year will only waste their money and precious time. This is correct, not all students are always interested in leaving their home, for several reasons. They might not be able to bear the expenses, cope up with the climate change, or the foreign food may not suit them. If one is determined to only serve his country, than overseas experience is of least importance.
Conclusively, a global experience helps in many ways, but nothing should ever be forced in systems of education. Imposing restrictions only hinders the ability to acquire knowledge. It should be made clear to the students that why a visit abroad is of utmost importance and then should be given the choice to do so. It should be the student’s decision to go overseas or to stay on their home land.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, conversely, furthermore, if, may, moreover, so, then, well, while, apart from, at least, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.5258426966 108% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.4196629213 153% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2760.0 2235.4752809 123% => OK
No of words: 536.0 442.535393258 121% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14925373134 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81161862636 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71853902753 2.79657885939 97% => OK
Unique words: 288.0 215.323595506 134% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.537313432836 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 846.0 704.065955056 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.777186757 60.3974514979 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.222222222 118.986275619 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.8518518519 23.4991977007 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.03703703704 5.21951772744 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.321945788542 0.243740707755 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.088752851605 0.0831039109588 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.163256432156 0.0758088955206 215% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.16845859994 0.150359130593 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.156522857821 0.0667264976115 235% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.8420337079 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 12.1639044944 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 137.0 100.480337079 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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