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 recommendation and explain your reasoning for the

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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 recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.

There have been debates on whether universities should require their students to join international exchange programs. Some people claim that studying in foreign countries is an amazing and rewarding experience that every student must give it a try during their university life. While others argue that it may cause a heavy financial burden for some students. Although I tend to agree with the former argument more, I do agree both statements have their points. 

Primarily, exchange programs make students developed fast in many aspects by letting them interact with people whose backgrounds are very different. Take myself as an example. I study in Hong Kong, and I got a chance to study in San Jose during last summer. During my exchange period, I attend many meetups and hackathons in Silicon Valley; while these activities are not very popular in Hong Kong. Different people I met in these event taught me different skills and brought me to think in different ways that I had never imagine. This experience truly broadens my horizon and make me be aware of how big this world is. 

Although exchange programs lead to many advantages, not every student is able to afford it. The living expenses, flight tickets, housing and tuition fees may become a heavy financial burden. As far as I know, some of my university peers even take a loan in order to attend university. If university requires every to join the program, it is totally unfair for them. Thus, in this case, adopting the proposed recommendation would not be as advantageous as we expect. 

In conclusion, although exchange programs are rewarding and worthy chances that schools should actively encourage their students to participate, universities should not include this into the graduation requirement since it is unfair for students with financial barriers.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, may, so, thus, while, in conclusion

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: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 14.8657303371 47% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 58.6224719101 55% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalization wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1544.0 2235.4752809 69% => OK
No of words: 298.0 442.535393258 67% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.18120805369 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15483772266 4.55969084622 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7558079988 2.79657885939 99% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 215.323595506 82% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.590604026846 0.4932671777 120% => OK
syllable_count: 485.1 704.065955056 69% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.740449438202 0% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 20.2370786517 64% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 87.2810193075 60.3974514979 145% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.769230769 118.986275619 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.9230769231 23.4991977007 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.0 5.21951772744 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => 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: 0.161256233124 0.243740707755 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0549973591903 0.0831039109588 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0539314060869 0.0758088955206 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112518716268 0.150359130593 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0620563333158 0.0667264976115 93% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 14.1392134831 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.8420337079 101% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.06 12.1639044944 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.65 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 100.480337079 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.


Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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