Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country.
Understanding many cultures of different countries is very important for young people. Thus, I agree with the statement that colleges should require students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country.
Students can broaden their vision by studying in a foreign country. For example, when I was an undergraduate, I liked to travel to many different countries. Therefore, when the college offered some chances of exchanging programs, I chose to study an exchange student program in Germany. In my exchange student program, I studied in TUM, which was top-notch university in Germany, and there were many different events held by German students. I attend an event named “Welcome to Munich”, in which many German students lead us to visit many German historic sites, such as the city hall of Munich, which had an eight-hundred-year history. Furthermore, we also visited lots of relics of World War two, with these historical remains, we could experience the cruelty of war and understand how much German had paid for these terrible wars. Other than visiting these historic sites, I also enjoyed lots of delicious German food, such as German sausage, and attended German Beer Festival. In this festival, I could drank the most pure German beer that I had never tasted. With these precious memories, I could profoundly understand German culture. By contrast, if I had not chosen to study an exchange student program, I might have not been able to visited these German historic sites and understand German culture.
Students can improve their ability of English by studying in a foreign country. For example, when I was an undergraduate, most of my classmates are foreign students, and we always had to communicate in English. Thus, I totally understood the importance of English. In the second year of my college life, I chose to study an exchange program in England because I thought studying in the United Kingdom would be the best choice to improve my capability of English. During the exchanging program, I chose many British history courses to study. On one hand, I could discuss the course material with my classmates in English. On the other hand, I could also understand the British culture more profound. Besides, I often went to many different types of Bars and talked a variety of issues, such as politics or history, with local people. Thus, my ability of English improved by leaps and bounds, and when I went back to Taiwan, I could already got 990 points in TOEIC exam. In contrast, if I had not chosen to study an exchange student program in the UK, I might have not been able to improve my English ability.
Some people may argue that studying in a foreign country will spend an astronomical amount of money. However, many colleges will offer subsidies to their students to study abroad, and students will only need to pay for a small part of entire fees. Also, lots of foreign universities will also provide exchange students with free dormitories. As a result, students will not be restricted by budgets.
To sum up, studying in a foreign country for a semester will bring lots of great benefits. Therefore, I agree with the statement that colleges and universities should require their students to spend as least one semester studying in a foreign country.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: many
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Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
...h university in Germany, and there were many different events held by German students. I atten...
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Message: The verb 'could' requires the base form of the verb: 'drink'
Suggestion: drink
...eer Festival. In this festival, I could drank the most pure German beer that I had ne...
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Message: Use simply 'many'.
Suggestion: many
...more profound. Besides, I often went to many different types of Bars and talked a variety of i...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, furthermore, however, if, may, second, so, therefore, thus, as to, at least, for example, in contrast, such as, as a result, to sum up, on the other hand
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: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 33.0505617978 151% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 78.0 58.6224719101 133% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 12.9106741573 31% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2754.0 2235.4752809 123% => OK
No of words: 552.0 442.535393258 125% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98913043478 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84713113593 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74756914579 2.79657885939 98% => OK
Unique words: 239.0 215.323595506 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.432971014493 0.4932671777 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 847.8 704.065955056 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 21.0 6.24550561798 336% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 0.0 4.99550561798 0% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 13.0 4.38483146067 296% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 42.5873052849 60.3974514979 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.3571428571 118.986275619 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7142857143 23.4991977007 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.0 5.21951772744 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 10.2758426966 185% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.327590255654 0.243740707755 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.105721368577 0.0831039109588 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.15811944545 0.0758088955206 209% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.302441294773 0.150359130593 201% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.202884977025 0.0667264976115 304% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 14.1392134831 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.8420337079 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.78 8.38706741573 93% => OK
difficult_words: 112.0 100.480337079 111% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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