Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country.
Studying abroad brings a lot of new experiences to students. Being part of another culture learn students to think and act in another way than they used to. However, to require all of the students to study abroad is not factual. So, I partly agree with the statement that all students are required to study at least one semester abroad.
First of all, a positive part of studying abroad, is the fact that you have to reorganize your life in another country. Things which seems to be simple back home could lead to problems in a foreign country. Because students are going to encounter this problem they are triggered to find new and unusual solutions. An example is dealing with social issues. How do people say hello to each other or what is supposed to do if someone gives you a present? Students learn a lot when they face those questions and they feel that there are different expectations from foreign people.
Another argument is the ability to improve certain speaking and reading skills in another language. When students have to work together with students which are speaking other languages they have to find a way to communicate with each other. Nowadays, students will communicate in English mostly. Reading, listening and speaking skills will develop quickly if students have to talk in another language.
On the other hand, requiring students to study abroad is not a real option. First of all, students could get seriously financial problems if they have to study abroad mandatory. Studying abroad will cost a lot of money. It would be very rude if universities and colleges require this. Secondly, most of the students have jobs or recreational activities besides their school activities. Require a student to quit with these activities for a semester disproportionally. Universities do have the power to control what student have to do to pass exams, but having the power to control their entire life for a semester goes too far. Students could get in trouble with their work, family, friends or sports team if they are required to go abroad.
In the end, studying abroad brings a lot of positive experiences to a student. The students who study abroad will develop certain skills which are not developing in regular university or college programs. However, to mandatory students goes to far. There are a lot of personal reasons why students are unable to go abroad. To conclude, universities and colleges should do their best to promote going abroad, but the choice to go should be made by the students themselves.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, at least, first of all, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.5258426966 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 33.0505617978 73% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 58.6224719101 109% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 12.9106741573 15% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2119.0 2235.4752809 95% => OK
No of words: 428.0 442.535393258 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95093457944 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.548423998 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65520396355 2.79657885939 95% => OK
Unique words: 199.0 215.323595506 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.464953271028 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 650.7 704.065955056 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 6.24550561798 32% => OK
Interrogative: 2.0 0.740449438202 270% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 23.0359550562 65% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 31.1481701678 60.3974514979 52% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 78.4814814815 118.986275619 66% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.8518518519 23.4991977007 67% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.59259259259 5.21951772744 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 14.0 4.83258426966 290% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.328998539084 0.243740707755 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0951906382022 0.0831039109588 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0735693058965 0.0758088955206 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.183776910295 0.150359130593 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0815582002755 0.0667264976115 122% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.8 14.1392134831 69% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 48.8420337079 132% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 12.1743820225 66% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.13 12.1639044944 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.41 8.38706741573 88% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 100.480337079 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 11.2143820225 71% => 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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