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 recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
The statement claims that colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country. It is true that studying abroad is academically and personally beneficial to college students. However, it should not become a requirement to students. Therefore, I disagree with the statement.
To begin with, studying in a foreign is expensive and it burdens students’ financial situation. For example, the American college tuition is typically 5 times higher than colleges in most Asian countries such as Taiwan or Japan. Moreover, in the US, food, transportation fee as well as rental are more expensive than their Asian counterparts. If students are required to spend extra money to study abroad, their financial situation is exacerbated and they may not be able to focus on academic performance as they may choose to find a part-time job nearby instead of sitting in a library to study. Consequently, forcing students to study abroad seems to be meaningless if they cannot achieve academically.
In addition to financial issue, learning a second language is also a problem. It takes numerous time of practicing to master a language. If students spend too much time on learning a new language, they are unable to strike a balance between it and their majors. Take Japanese, for example. Japanese is considered one of the most complex language for its variable conjugation, strict grammar rules, complicated writing and so on. If a computer science student spends too much time learning Japanese, it certainly doesn’t help to sharpen his or her programming skill, instead, it only burdens student’s school live because Japanese colleges anticipate foreign students to show proficiency in Japanese. Therefore, learning another language is a critical issue.
Admittedly, studying in a foreign country does help students strengthen their mentality. Through studying abroad, students are exposed to a total unfamiliar environment. Therefore, they need to learn to be independent. For example, learning cooking, doing the laundry and handle every trivia issues by themselves.
To sum up, the statement assert that colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country. However, as mentioned above. I firmly disagree with the statement.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 28, Rule ID: DT_JJ_NO_NOUN[2]
Message: Probably a noun is missing in this part of the sentence.
...tatement. To begin with, studying in a foreign is expensive and it burdens students&ap...
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Line 7, column 242, Rule ID: AFFORD_VBG[1]
Message: This verb is used with infinitive: 'to cook'.
Suggestion: to cook
...o be independent. For example, learning cooking, doing the laundry and handle every tri...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, however, if, may, moreover, second, so, then, therefore, well, at least, for example, in addition, such as, as well as, it is true, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.5258426966 77% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 14.8657303371 67% => OK
Relative clauses : 3.0 11.3162921348 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 33.0505617978 85% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 58.6224719101 77% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2005.0 2235.4752809 90% => OK
No of words: 365.0 442.535393258 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.49315068493 5.05705443957 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37092360658 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.07000452016 2.79657885939 110% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 215.323595506 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.542465753425 0.4932671777 110% => OK
syllable_count: 623.7 704.065955056 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 23.0359550562 65% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 62.9563115538 60.3974514979 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.1739130435 118.986275619 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.8695652174 23.4991977007 68% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.65217391304 5.21951772744 147% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 10.2758426966 39% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
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: 0.295028393279 0.243740707755 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0886859607378 0.0831039109588 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.112593604171 0.0758088955206 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.210982403479 0.150359130593 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.121587362343 0.0667264976115 182% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 14.1392134831 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 47.79 48.8420337079 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.1743820225 85% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.27 12.1639044944 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.66 8.38706741573 103% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 100.480337079 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 11.2143820225 71% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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