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 your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider the possible consequences of implementing the policy and explain how these consequences shape your position.
The globalization becomes a trend, many colleges and universities now provide various choices for students interested in studying other countries for one semester. However, the policy says colleges and universities should require all students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country. In my opinion, it’s not necessarily to make this regulation for the following reasons.
Most of the graduated students in Taiwan often complain their professional skills aren’t capable of dealing with problems when going to work. When forced to be an exchange student, students usually take 12 credits as the maximum, much lower than in Taiwan by 8 to 13. In addition, after staying at foreign countries for a semester, those students often have to prolong their schedule of graduating owing to dearth of minimum credits for graduation. It’s obvious that one can absorb knowledge more efficiently as lesson is lectured in his tongue language. Once colleges require all students to study in a foreign country, it’s likely that they may get lower credits and grade owing to language barrier, even unable to get enough skills.
Tuition is much higher if the student isn’t the citizen, so the cost including daily life may be a burden to most of the families in Taiwan. Take staying at Japan for example, tuition for a semester is approximately five thousand dollars let alone other expenses such as accommodation, airplane tickets, and so on. On the contrary, studying at national universities in Taiwan, students only need to pay one thousand dollars for a semester, included cost of dormitory. In other words, the tuition for staying at a foreign country can support a student study in Taiwan for 5 semesters astonishingly.
Some may argue that staying at other countries is an opportunity to strengthen language ability and get close to know other cultures. Regarding language, there are many solutions to this problem. Technology makes us communicate with foreign teachers through SKYPE, or provides us with many educational platforms especially for improving speaking, such as Tutor ABC. What’s more, there are many exchanged students from various schools studying at Taiwan’s colleges. Taking a same course and joining at the same club are both the great opportunities to make friends and communicate with them. After being friends, it’s possible to know their cultures and understand the difference between two countries.
To sum up, the colleges and universities don’t have to require students to study at least one semester staying at a foreign country.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 10, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'argues'.
Suggestion: argues
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, may, regarding, so, then, at least, for example, in addition, such as, in my opinion, in other words, on the contrary, to sum up
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: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.3162921348 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 33.0505617978 45% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2215.0 2235.4752809 99% => OK
No of words: 411.0 442.535393258 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.38929440389 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50256981431 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91080353432 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 221.0 215.323595506 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.537712895377 0.4932671777 109% => OK
syllable_count: 679.5 704.065955056 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 6.24550561798 16% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.632392827 60.3974514979 51% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 116.578947368 118.986275619 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6315789474 23.4991977007 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.42105263158 5.21951772744 142% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.2758426966 68% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.276127516041 0.243740707755 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0993795226607 0.0831039109588 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.104854419832 0.0758088955206 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.204482572326 0.150359130593 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0959442979458 0.0667264976115 144% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 14.1392134831 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.8420337079 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.98 12.1639044944 115% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.83 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 100.480337079 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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