The main aim of colleges and universities is to transform students into flexible and responsible memebers of the society. Requiring students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country has a lot of benifits but because of the variability in terms of course structures and the students themselves, making the requirement compulsory may not be a good idea.
Each country has a unique mind set and the way it functions. Even the way people behave with each other or the way they eat also has a lot of varaibility. By requiring students to study in a foreign country, colleges and universities can help in broadening the spectrum of the students expirience and thus help in learning. On spending a semester away from home, a student can learn how to be independent and how to adapt to changes, all of which is not possible if the students stays in his or her home country, in his or her comfort zone. This situation of having only the new faces around, the students can learn how to be self-relient citizens without needing anyone’s assistance. Moreover, the completely different environment facilitates learning of new things and giving new prespectives. Assume a student in Canada, studying British Architecture. If it happens that he is given a chance to spend one semester in England, would not that be extremely benificial for him? He would be able to actually see things in real life which he had just seen in his text books till now. Getting a real life perspective might give him a new angle or make him more appreciative of the subject and thus help in him in his further studies.
As we grow old, the power of adaptibility decreases and it just becomes more difficult to adapt to the changing circumstances. When we are still in school, we are too small to live independenly and responsibily. Hence, getting exposed to variety of expiriences which are out our comfort zone is idea during our time at college. Also, it might get monotonous if a student spends all his time at one place. Spending a semester in a new place would break the monotony and re-ignite its interest in studies.
But there are some factors which need to considered before making this requirement mandatory. What if the student does not have sufficient funds to spend a semester in a foreign country? Or what if the student’s familiy needs him at home? Also, consider a student studying British Architecture in England. Asking him to spend one semester outside England might not be a good idea.
Spending a semester in a foreign country has its own merits. But, making it madotory would be going a bit too far.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, hence, if, may, moreover, so, still, thus, at least, of course
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 11.3162921348 62% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 58.6224719101 109% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2177.0 2235.4752809 97% => OK
No of words: 453.0 442.535393258 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.80573951435 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61343653406 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88835542473 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 226.0 215.323595506 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.498896247241 0.4932671777 101% => OK
syllable_count: 684.9 704.065955056 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 20.2370786517 119% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 48.8395900429 60.3974514979 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.7083333333 118.986275619 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.875 23.4991977007 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.45833333333 5.21951772744 66% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.83258426966 228% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.256383852784 0.243740707755 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0726321022882 0.0831039109588 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0617581123331 0.0758088955206 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156163454638 0.150359130593 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0667346494695 0.0667264976115 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 14.1392134831 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.8420337079 126% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.1743820225 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.62 12.1639044944 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.81 8.38706741573 93% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 100.480337079 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
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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