Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country.
It is believed that college life is one of most memorable part of one’s life. The opportunities encountered during college time shape personality and values to a great extent. It is period of exploration, and development. However, another significant aspect of student life is assignments, classes and modules to study. This imperative part of college helps form opinions, knowledge base and prepares for future employment prospects. An interesting twist to this journey over the past few years has been addition of abroad programs. Such interventions allow students to study while living in a foreign country, opening doors for several fortuitous prospects. The prompt therefore, suggests that all universities and colleges should mandate their students to at least one semester abroad.
To begin, students studying abroad will be exposed to different culture, language and societal working. Thus, allowing students to broaden their horizons by opening their minds of assimilation of a disparate society. Moreover, navigate a new surrounding to develop personally and professionally. Such programs will hence, aid in personality development of students as they explore and understand novel concepts. For instance, a student living in monolithic society when enters a different one will gain cognizance of other perspectives, thus, breaking his tunnel vision. A direct result will be broadening of perspectives, development of open mindedness and dispelling of ignorance. Moreover, such an experience will help in promoting independent mind and personality. Students will have to think for themselves more analytically and critically.
However, there are several factors one needs to examine in order to consider these benefits. First and foremost, not every student will be able to afford such an expensive education program. For instance, in India statistics indicate that parents on an average spend more than 10 lakh rupees on their ward’s education. This figure in background of lower purchasing parity power of Indian population raises several issues with the mandate of compulsory abroad education. Furthermore, not every child is educated in India, and it is beyond the scope of government to spend at least 2 lakh rupees on every student’s foreign semester.
Another issues that raises its head is extra work that educating abroad entails such as visa acquiring process. It is both long and tedious. Hence, a student already burdened by class and assignments cannot really be expected to work hard for visa as well. It also important to realize that there can be unplanned emergencies which will hamstring the process.
Students will also face adjustment difficulties in a new unknown country which can impact their academic standing. Several personal characteristics such as upbringing, parenting styles, personality, and attitude will also play a salient role in the abroad program.
Therefore, I think a partial stance should be taken. Not every student has the similar standing and capacities in terms of finance and personal circumstances.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, moreover, really, so, therefore, thus, well, while, at least, for instance, i think, such as, to a great extent
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 58.6224719101 97% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 12.9106741573 147% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2600.0 2235.4752809 116% => OK
No of words: 467.0 442.535393258 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.56745182013 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64867537961 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02591793642 2.79657885939 108% => OK
Unique words: 268.0 215.323595506 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.573875802998 0.4932671777 116% => OK
syllable_count: 815.4 704.065955056 116% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.7293814946 60.3974514979 51% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 89.6551724138 118.986275619 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.1034482759 23.4991977007 69% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.41379310345 5.21951772744 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.83258426966 248% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.270723485715 0.243740707755 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0612868349344 0.0831039109588 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0881341884948 0.0758088955206 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119344959196 0.150359130593 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0890205855552 0.0667264976115 133% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 46.78 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.73 12.1639044944 121% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.54 8.38706741573 114% => OK
difficult_words: 151.0 100.480337079 150% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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