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 claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
Student life is the phase where one gets complete independence to explore different avenues of life, enabling them to choose and follow a particular life and career path in the future. There are no work commitments for college and university students, allowing them to pursue and try whatever they want. I mostly agree with the claim presented in the prompt that students in colleges and universities must spend at least a semester studying in any foreign country. My stance on the same is due to the reasons stated further.
Firstly, each country has a government-mandated prescribed curriculum which the teachers and professors adhere to in their lectures. This restraint, coupled with other constraints, often limits the knowledge imparted to the students. Studying for some time in a foreign country would help the students overcome this limitation and experience the teachings of professors from other countries and universities. This also would give them the chance to interact with the global community of students in their respective fields and expose them to their research and development facilities, which the student’s home university might be lacking. For example, a student from any Tier-3 college in a developing country would not be acquainted with a lot of things due to a lack of resources and infrastructure, but this gap can be well filled if he or she gets a chance to spend a semester abroad in Germany, the country whose universities are known to have the best research facilities in the world. Thus, the student’s lack of resources in the home country would be fulfilled by this mandate of a semester abroad.
Secondly, student life is not all about academics and what happens inside the classroom. What happens outside the classroom among peers is equally essential for holistic growth and development. When one interacts with their classmates, he or she gets to exchange ideas with people from different streams and backgrounds, but since everyone is from the same country, culturally, it is more or less the same. But, if a student gets to spend some semesters studying abroad, they would get an opportunity to mingle with people from a plethora of different cultures and values, learn about their ways of life, and get a broad perspective on every idea. This would open new doors for the student community regarding global collaboration and employment opportunities. For example, great European scholars spent a considerable amount of time in the Nalanda University during emperor Ashoka’s reign to share knowledge with the Indian scholars and to learn about the Indian ways of life. Their findings go a long way in establishing a powerful position for Indian scholars in history. If this helped the historians thousands of years ago, it would greatly benefit the present-day students as well.
Although, some would argue that shifting to a new country only for one semester would be a very tedious task for the students. It would take a lot of their time to adapt to the new place, which they could’ve very well spent in the classroom had they been continuing in the same university back home. But isn’t this one of the main teachings of student life - to learn to adapt as quickly as possible? The teenage and twenties are the years when one can afford such rapid transitions in life, and overcoming the challenges in these would help a long way in life. For example, when the COVID-19 pandemic struck the world in early 2020, everyone was forced to a completely new way of life irrespective of their age group. But, a student who has moved to a foreign university for one semester as a mandate would easily adapt to this change without getting affected much. In this way, this also teaches them some important life skills.
In conclusion, asking students to spend one semester abroad as a compulsory requirement has a lot of advantages for the students. It would expose them to lectures from a different breed of professors, allow them to interact with the global community of students, and teach them a lot of important life skills. Hence, the claim given in the prompt is well justified.
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Essay evaluations by e-grader
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, if, regarding, second, secondly, so, thus, well, as for, at least, for example, in conclusion, more or less
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 27.0 14.8657303371 182% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 33.0505617978 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 100.0 58.6224719101 171% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3455.0 2235.4752809 155% => OK
No of words: 689.0 442.535393258 156% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0145137881 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.12335920045 4.55969084622 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82810815868 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 308.0 215.323595506 143% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.44702467344 0.4932671777 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1054.8 704.065955056 150% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 6.24550561798 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.2248477859 60.3974514979 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.392857143 118.986275619 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6071428571 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.03571428571 5.21951772744 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.221698791592 0.243740707755 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0670843051581 0.0831039109588 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0665882249946 0.0758088955206 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140269423997 0.150359130593 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0495045908946 0.0667264976115 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 14.1392134831 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 145.0 100.480337079 144% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
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, first, firstly, hence, if, regarding, second, secondly, so, thus, well, as for, at least, for example, in conclusion, more or less
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 27.0 14.8657303371 182% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 33.0505617978 133% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 100.0 58.6224719101 171% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3455.0 2235.4752809 155% => OK
No of words: 689.0 442.535393258 156% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0145137881 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.12335920045 4.55969084622 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82810815868 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 308.0 215.323595506 143% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.44702467344 0.4932671777 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1054.8 704.065955056 150% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 6.24550561798 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.2248477859 60.3974514979 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.392857143 118.986275619 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6071428571 23.4991977007 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.03571428571 5.21951772744 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 10.2758426966 175% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.221698791592 0.243740707755 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0670843051581 0.0831039109588 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0665882249946 0.0758088955206 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140269423997 0.150359130593 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0495045908946 0.0667264976115 74% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 14.1392134831 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 145.0 100.480337079 144% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
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.