Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country.
The passage says that the students in colleges and universities should study abroad at least one semester. It is true that spending time to study in a foreign country has a few benefits, but such recommendation cannot be generalized to all students because of different circumstances of each student and the characteristic of the certain majors in a particular country.
Admittedly, it would beneficial for students to spend at least one semester studying abroad. There may not be a better way to experience culture and people of the foreign country for students than studying in that country. While studying abroad, the students have to interact with the people of the foreign country and adjust themselves to its customs and culture. For example, a student who majors in Chinese literature should go to China, spend the time to study modern Chinese, and see how the language differs in the various regions of China. In the process, the student has to speak Chinese daily basis and encounter Chinese people whether he or she likes it or not.
First of all, however, not every student can afford the cost of studying abroad. If the school requires students to study in a foreign country, there may be a number of students who decide to drop out of school. For instance, if an American student studying Chinese literature was required to study in China for at least one semester, he or she has to pay more than $2,000 for sole airfare. Also, there are other expenses, such as room and board. While you are studying in your own country, you can work and study at the same time when you face financial difficulties. However, there are countries, such as the United States, not allowing international students to work while they are studying. When the school set up the requirement of studying abroad, it should consider the financial circumstances of each student.
Moreover, in certain circumstances, studying in a foreign country may be nothing but waste time and resources because of the disparity of scholarly levels. If an American student studies Engineering in Caltech, does the student have to go to another country to study Engineering? I would say no because there is no guarantee that the student is provided the same level of education in other countries. Colleges and universities may insist that studying abroad is for the good of students because the diverse experience is required in modern society. However, this is not something that the schools can decide especially for those studying certain majors requiring profound research for years.
To sum up, I do not agree with the author’s statement that college students must study abroad for at least one semester. Spending a semester or more to study may be a dazzling and profitable experience for college students; however, it should remain as the decision of individual because everyone lives under different circumstance.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, moreover, so, while, as to, at least, for example, for instance, such as, first of all, it is true, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.5258426966 82% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 33.0505617978 82% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2427.0 2235.4752809 109% => OK
No of words: 480.0 442.535393258 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.05625 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68069463864 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81544521716 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 208.0 215.323595506 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.433333333333 0.4932671777 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 756.0 704.065955056 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.3595943451 60.3974514979 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.571428571 118.986275619 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8571428571 23.4991977007 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.90476190476 5.21951772744 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.449725632962 0.243740707755 185% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.154104453157 0.0831039109588 185% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.107257547843 0.0758088955206 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.303742568916 0.150359130593 202% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0665229637 0.0667264976115 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.1392134831 98% => 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: 12.36 12.1639044944 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.98 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 100.480337079 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => 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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