Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country.
The author awkwardly asserts that all students should be required to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country. While they might derive several benefits from such experiences, I believe that this unqualified statement merits further discussion. All the conditions must be assayed and taken into consideration before the debate can be substantiated.
To begin with, all the positive impacts flowing from this semester spent abroad should be enlisted. In traveling in a country far from their own, students would gain in maturity and independence. The eclectic conditions of study and living incline one to adapt to new habits, eliciting empathy, and a cultural exchange would arise. If the language spoken in the chosen country happens to be the same as the one studied along the curriculum, students would significantly improve. Otherwise, they still could use English. This process may open up new horizons in the long term and provide students with job prospects. Educational institutes also stand to benefit when students' experiences and different methodologies and processes embraced in these countries are added to their curriculum.
One can't however overlooks the astronomical costs of this exchange. Additionally to potential local tuition fees, students will be faced with quotidian expenditures such as rent, bills and food, embodying a significant burden for the most underprivileged. The financial gap between poor and rich students' families should then be the first reason for not rendering compulsory this exchange. It would then reside in universities' duty to assume these charges if anyone can't do so, but these are actually unaffordable for almost all of them.
Exchanges between universities have been done since decades, and several outcomes contrary to those expected, have grown out of this process. The nature of the classes attended are defining when it comes to study abroad. Laws, for instance, vary from one country to another and there is thus scant interest for an American to take civil law courses in Spain or France. Such mismatch applies to different fields, and between many countries. On the other hand, many professionals are in accordance on the laxity in terms of grades or stringency, towards international students. Most of the time, the studying semesters slide into extended holidays.
Institutions in partnership with universities around the world such as AIESEC offer people the opportunity to study time in foreign countries in an environment similar to the university’s, even providing a host. They are allowed to choose the duration and location of their experience, and the nature of their voyage vary from an internship in finance to a study case on the country's gender gaps. Such compromise might be an alternative to the requirement of students spending one semester in a foreign country.
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Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
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Suggestion: Additionally,
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Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
... duty to assume these charges if anyone cant do so, but these are actually unafforda...
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Message: The pronoun 'anyone' must be used with a third-person verb: 'cants'.
Suggestion: cants
... duty to assume these charges if anyone cant do so, but these are actually unafforda...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, however, if, look, may, so, still, then, thus, while, at least, for instance, such as, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 14.8657303371 114% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 11.3162921348 35% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 33.0505617978 70% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 58.6224719101 116% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2418.0 2235.4752809 108% => OK
No of words: 450.0 442.535393258 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.37333333333 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6057793516 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96297814811 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 263.0 215.323595506 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.584444444444 0.4932671777 118% => OK
syllable_count: 758.7 704.065955056 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => 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: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.2230104173 60.3974514979 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.130434783 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5652173913 23.4991977007 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.39130434783 5.21951772744 122% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.83258426966 186% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.359291525991 0.243740707755 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0919912702323 0.0831039109588 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.111443383367 0.0758088955206 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.192642410985 0.150359130593 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0910846847742 0.0667264976115 137% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.1392134831 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.87 12.1639044944 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.25 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 133.0 100.480337079 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => 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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