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.
The main objective of colleges and universities is to impart academic knowledge to students. But only with expertise in theory, students struggle when it comes to the outside world. If a student spends all the four years of his time spending at one particular place, he/she gets used to it, consequentially inhibiting one's adaptive qualities. I agree with the prompt and would like to back my stance with the following examples.
The students who spend one full semester in a foreign university gets the opportunity to experience a very different culture than at their home university. They are not only exposed to the various aspects of teachings and research but also to the multiple aspects of the country itself. It affords the students to be independent and interact with new people. One important feature of education is to have a basic understanding of how things work across the world and what better way to spend a semester in a different country.
Moreover, the research that is going on in another country might be extensive as compared to their home university which provides the students with a great learning opportunity: to read up on new stuff while also being part of a multi-cultured team. It will help the students in the future when they start working for corporates or industries, by understanding the intricacies involved in working as part of a team with members belonging to different backgrounds and also on how to overcome these limitations.
Another added advantage is that the student has to plan the details during his whole period of stay there. It contributes in improving the planning abilities of a student and at the same time exposes him to what all entails when one has to move from one place to another, which one will surely have to go through during an adult phase.
On the whole, to study in a foreign country for one whole semester opens a new world of opportunities and exposure to students which not only equips them to face the world in the future but at the same time is a once in a lifetime opportunity.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, moreover, so, while, as to, on the whole
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 19.5258426966 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.4196629213 32% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 33.0505617978 64% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 58.6224719101 114% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 12.9106741573 15% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1708.0 2235.4752809 76% => OK
No of words: 354.0 442.535393258 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.82485875706 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33761313653 4.55969084622 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83581491159 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 215.323595506 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.528248587571 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 550.8 704.065955056 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 20.2370786517 64% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.8138849759 60.3974514979 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.384615385 118.986275619 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.2307692308 23.4991977007 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.23076923077 5.21951772744 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.266814629434 0.243740707755 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0896927842939 0.0831039109588 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0514367484832 0.0758088955206 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149623582403 0.150359130593 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0317998139774 0.0667264976115 48% => 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: 14.9 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.1639044944 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.63 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 100.480337079 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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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:
also, but, if, moreover, so, while, as to, on the whole
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 19.5258426966 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.4196629213 32% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 33.0505617978 64% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 58.6224719101 114% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 12.9106741573 15% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1708.0 2235.4752809 76% => OK
No of words: 354.0 442.535393258 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.82485875706 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33761313653 4.55969084622 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83581491159 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 215.323595506 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.528248587571 0.4932671777 107% => OK
syllable_count: 550.8 704.065955056 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 20.2370786517 64% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.8138849759 60.3974514979 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.384615385 118.986275619 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.2307692308 23.4991977007 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.23076923077 5.21951772744 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.266814629434 0.243740707755 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0896927842939 0.0831039109588 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0514367484832 0.0758088955206 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149623582403 0.150359130593 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0317998139774 0.0667264976115 48% => 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: 14.9 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.1639044944 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.63 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 100.480337079 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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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.