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 claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
I tend to disagree with the claim that colleges and universities require at least one semester studying in a foreign country because the claim fails to answer some pertinent questions as explained subsequently.
First, what is the educational background of the foreign country in which a student must require to spend a semester studying?. If the foreign country in consideration is educationally inferior to the one in which the student is studying, then the student wouldn't benefit from spending a semester studying because he/she will learn better if he studies is his/her own country which has better resources and methods of teaching. Moreover, it is not necessary that every program that is offered in a student's university is offered by a foreign country which provides a better education in that field.In this case not each student would choose to study abroad. Studying in a foreign country where the language spoken is different from the one spoken in the student's country also requires him/her to learn that language ,which itself requires a lot of time ,distracting the student from the focus of studying his/her field of study.
Second, would the cost of studying and living in a foreign country would be bore by the college or the student?. Studying and livng in foreign country requires more money than the normal routine of life. If it is the college which takes care of the expenses, it would do so by increasing the tution fee or some added fee which has to be bore by the student. Either way it would be the student who has to take up all the expenses. Some students are burdened with the everyday responsibilities of life. It would be unfair to assume that every student has that kind of money to spare. He/she may or may not have a job or has to support his/her family in which scenario the requirement of the college/university to study abroad even for one semester would be a burden to the student.
Third,what is the duration of the semester which the college/university is expecting the student to study abroad?. If the duration of the semester is too short, say two-three months then even if the foreign country is educationally more advanced than the student's country, he/she won't be able to benefit or learn a lot . In other words it wouldn't be worth as compared to the expenses incurred.The main role of a college/university is to deliver education on it's premise to the student. So, if the duration of the semester is too long , say a year then this would very well defy the role of the educational institution in which the student is studying.
Thus,even though the experience of the studying abroad might be good in some situations, it shouldn't be forced on the student as it might be advantageous to some students while disadvantageous to others. Hence , keeping in mind the above pertinent questions and there consequences if the claim is enforced, I strongly disagree with the idea that colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, hence, if, may, moreover, second, so, then, third, thus, well, while, as to, at least, kind of, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 20.0 11.3162921348 177% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 33.0505617978 115% => OK
Preposition: 71.0 58.6224719101 121% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2532.0 2235.4752809 113% => OK
No of words: 517.0 442.535393258 117% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89748549323 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.76839952204 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92154818324 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 215.323595506 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.404255319149 0.4932671777 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 783.9 704.065955056 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 20.2370786517 89% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 23.0359550562 122% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 68.9861544527 60.3974514979 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.666666667 118.986275619 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.7222222222 23.4991977007 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.83333333333 5.21951772744 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 16.0 7.80617977528 205% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.359199842015 0.243740707755 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.143506300526 0.0831039109588 173% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0956179529509 0.0758088955206 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.237427163546 0.150359130593 158% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0448789534203 0.0667264976115 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.0 14.1392134831 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.52 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.1743820225 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.73 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.77 8.38706741573 93% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 100.480337079 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 11.8971910112 155% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.2143820225 118% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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