Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country

It is a recommendation to all college and university goers to take up a semester abroad for studies. Such, a system is unequivocally beneficial to students. Not only providing them with much needed social interaction with foreign cultures but also improves their flexibility to work in a different environment. Additionally, the knowledge and experience gained from a foreign university in the same disciple brings in a change of ideology and methodology to approaching domain related problems or concepts.

Slovakia's growth in the past years can be attributed to the universal rule necessitating students to take up at least one semester in foreign lands. Consequently, the exposure and knowledge gained from their semester abroad has helped in developing better social networks for students, to help collaborate on projects with likeminded people, take up on much sought after internships, and possibly landing a job. This created an atmosphere of innovation in Slovakia where each returning individual equipped with new skills and ideas launched various startups to not only help local businesses but also foreign entities. Thus, pursuing a semester abroad not only helped in gaining valuable knowledge but also potential clients or employment.

Concomitant, to the cliché is the meteoric explosion of the social networks of the engaged students. Entering an alien culture to gain knowledge is not only a test of flexibility to work in differing global environments but also an opportunity to build up new and potentially beneficial social cliques. Students usually make new social networks while visiting a foreign university primarily by pursuing routine academics with foreign students and further by collaborating on projects on areas of similar interest. Students in particular pursuing business studies benefit relatively more from spending a semester in foreign lands by not merely gaining friends but also potential business partners, investors, clients or lifelong gurus.

Irrefutably, taking a pause from studies in home country to pursue studies abroad does affect your studies. To name a few obstacles that may hinder your studies is the language barrier and time taken to adjust with your preferences to a foreign land. An equal opposing argument is presented that the entire motive of taking the opportunity to spend a semester abroad is to gain exposure and knowledge and that certainly cannot be done from the comforts of your home. No matter the initial obstacles, one has to face while taking up a semester abroad it is totally worth it.

In conclusion, we can say that the benefits of taking up a semester abroad outweighs the challenges presented by it. Unquestionably providing much needed social interactions, enhancing flexibility to work in foreign cultures, granting the essential exposure and knowledge, presenting with much sought after opportunities for employment and business, getting the much-needed secondary opinion on current practices and meeting lifelong mentors.

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Average: 8.3 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, if, may, second, so, thus, while, as to, at least, in conclusion, in particular

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.5258426966 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.4196629213 32% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.3162921348 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 33.0505617978 51% => OK
Preposition: 75.0 58.6224719101 128% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 12.9106741573 62% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2556.0 2235.4752809 114% => OK
No of words: 462.0 442.535393258 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.53246753247 5.05705443957 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63618218583 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.05203094665 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 233.0 215.323595506 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.504329004329 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 806.4 704.065955056 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.2830630285 60.3974514979 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.0 118.986275619 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.6666666667 23.4991977007 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.77777777778 5.21951772744 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
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: 0.235447832226 0.243740707755 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.074910434032 0.0831039109588 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0682976025271 0.0758088955206 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.127315178665 0.150359130593 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0455964950804 0.0667264976115 68% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.5 14.1392134831 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 48.8420337079 77% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.09 12.1639044944 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.52 8.38706741573 114% => OK
difficult_words: 136.0 100.480337079 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 11.8971910112 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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