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 sup

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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.

It is undoubtedly appealing for students in colleges and universities to have an opportunity for an aboard learning semester. However, whether we should make such option as a compulsory course for them, greatly depends on how they treat for this opportunity. Will they consider it just a learning experience or they try to serve as a cultural ambassador between countries? Furthermore, for the sake of diminishing financial burden for colleges, perhaps some alternatives could be introduced as well.

To start off, while the experience learning aboard could expand both students' academic and life capacity, we should not force such activity as a mandatory option. Because not all of students fully utilize such chance with considering their own volition and language capacity. In order to stay in a country and really learn essence of relevant majors, the involving students should have sufficient language foundation, including abundant vocabulary, fluent communication skills and comprehensive knowledge to well adapt to the country's environment. Thus, if students lack of such prerequisite skills have to send out for further study, it's easy to lead to their frustration mood and even engender their courage to purse with the major. For instance, if one with years of English learning has been delivered to Japan, he/she would feel lost undoubtfully as language deficiency and lack of necessary country background. We can easily image that instead of accelerating his/her academic learning, he/she might become eager to beg for backing to home country as soon as possible.

Furthermore, putting forwards to let every student involve with study aboard, it will lead to several open questions and we should pore over them before taking action for follow-ups. First of all, while the nation could take the necessary cost of students, it will be still a huge expense to send out every student. Not every colleges and universities could afford such big challenge, which could put the original purpose in vain. Second, as mentioned above, only the language-adept students could be fully immersed with the foreign learning environment, we also need to consider whether they could play sufficiently as cultural ambassador role. As exchange students, they should fully understand their own national culture for the purpose of representing them efficiently. In the meanwhile, to adapt to communication purpose, they should accommodate with the foreign environment and be open enough to absorb the influxing foreign culture. For the case, if and only if the candidates own sufficiently open-mind and dexterous communication skills, our ultimate goal of culture bridge could be established as expected. Otherwise, such exchange student program could easily fail in practice and just leave as our wishful thinking.

Additionally, despite the fact that staying in foreign country could make benefit for students' learning, there might exist alternatives, such as a introduction of experienced foreign teachers into home country, which could also rival with the one alleged in the passage. Compared with the large cost of studying aboard, the introduction of foreign teachers to home country could let more students have opportunities with engagement for foreign culture. And the foreign teachers also could server as the cultural bridge as well. Most important, such approach decrease the financial burden greatly and could be adapted easily.

In summary, although the options brought about students outside is beneficial both from study and in life experience perspective, we still need to take a case-by-case approach. That is to say, instead of enacting it blindly for every student, the students' own wills for learning aboard and language ability should be considered seriously. Furthermore, the selected candidates should play a cultural bridge role between countries and facilitate the further effective communication. And of course, in case that another more economical solution emerge, it is wise to adapt it for giving more students with learning benefit and diverse teacher experience.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 70, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...ience learning aboard could expand both students academic and life capacity, we should n...
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Line 13, column 146, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...there might exist alternatives, such as a introduction of experienced foreign tea...
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Line 17, column 613, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to benefit'
Suggestion: to benefit
... for giving more students with learning benefit and diverse teacher experience.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, however, if, really, second, so, still, thus, well, while, for instance, in summary, of course, such as, first of all, that is to say

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.6327345309 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 31.0 12.9520958084 239% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 21.0 11.1786427146 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 40.0 28.8173652695 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 77.0 55.5748502994 139% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3474.0 2260.96107784 154% => OK
No of words: 630.0 441.139720559 143% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.51428571429 5.12650576532 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.00997013923 4.56307096286 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9252982095 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 307.0 204.123752495 150% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.487301587302 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 1074.6 705.55239521 152% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 4.96107784431 302% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 2.70958083832 332% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 19.7664670659 132% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.2509235475 57.8364921388 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.615384615 119.503703932 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.2307692308 23.324526521 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.11538461538 5.70786347227 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 19.0 8.20758483034 231% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.154398800832 0.218282227539 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0515525148974 0.0743258471296 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0314899046067 0.0701772020484 45% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.101093656335 0.128457276422 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00960860536271 0.0628817314937 15% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.6 14.3799401198 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 38.66 48.3550499002 80% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.97 12.5979740519 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.96 8.32208582834 108% => OK
difficult_words: 165.0 98.500998004 168% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 12.3882235529 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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