Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country.
The statement claims that studying abroad is highly recommended for colleges and universities students. Indeed, traveling to different countries or receiving information from the opposite of the world seems to be more and more commonplace nowadays. However, whether or not the benefit of spending a semester studying in a foreign country overweigh the drawbacks should be seriously considered.
Through studying abroad, students tend to get the opportunities absorbing themselves in an unfamiliar world. Sometimes, students may find it hard to get involved at the first place. Nevertheless, visiting a foreign country nearly always broaden people’s horizons. Since being immersed in a different culture, we learned to appreciate and respect by acknowledging histories and stories behind each tradition. For that living in a foreign country, we learned to speak foreign language not only in class but also throughout daily life, such as shopping, chatting or even watching TV at home. Studying abroad also offers students chances to make friends from around the world and may open a door for future cross-country collaboration. From these aspects, we can expect lots of advantages from student’s experiences of studying abroad.
On the other hand, disagreement with the statement may be expressed in the view that studying in a foreign country takes big amount of money and time than receiving education in hometown. For some economically disadvantaged students, they are likely to find this requirement implausible and unfair. They may need to work a part-time job in order to pay for the tuition fee. For some students who already spend much focusing on their compulsory lessons, they may result in poor performances because of striving to meet the requirement to study abroad in the limited time.
Detractors of the statement may also contend it is merely enough for students to learn different cultures through media and websites now since that the access of information has become quite easy and cost-effective than before. Likewise, they can make friends with the foreign students introduced to the class. Practicing foreign language with a foreigner whenever and wherever we want is possible as long as we log on to the internet. Due to above reasons, making studying abroad a requirement seems to be impractical and costly at certain point.
In the final analysis, although the benefits of studying in a foreign country for students are well-recognized, it is better for school to offer abundant chances instead of making it a compulsory regulation since the benefits do not hold true in every student.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 259, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...and more commonplace nowadays. However, whether or not the benefit of spending a semester stud...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, likewise, may, nevertheless, so, well, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.5258426966 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.3162921348 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 33.0505617978 64% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 58.6224719101 114% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 12.9106741573 108% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2215.0 2235.4752809 99% => OK
No of words: 413.0 442.535393258 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.36319612591 5.05705443957 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50803742585 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01080022747 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 229.0 215.323595506 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.554479418886 0.4932671777 112% => OK
syllable_count: 670.5 704.065955056 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.4077718129 60.3974514979 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.578947368 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7368421053 23.4991977007 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.05263157895 5.21951772744 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.308005981664 0.243740707755 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0916328677713 0.0831039109588 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0615533780255 0.0758088955206 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169616058155 0.150359130593 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0440686992109 0.0667264976115 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.1392134831 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.1639044944 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.81 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 100.480337079 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 11.8971910112 59% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => 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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