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.
In today's fast globalizing world there is a trend of studying in a foreign country, for instance, students taking exams like TOFEL and IELTS to pursue their graduate education in foreign countries. This flux of students immigrating from one country to another country creates diversity in education as well as employment in various professions thereby adding value to that particular country. One can easily say the same regarding students required to spend at least one semester in a foreign country would have the same effect. However, such a claim is very short-sighted and has failed to take into consideration various aspects of foreign education.
Requiring one to study in a foreign country means there should be some sort of student's exchange program established in all the universities. Such a program requires a lot of back working and most of the universities especially in third world countries do not have resources to support the same. For example, during my undergraduate two of batchmates wanted to study in our sister college located in a different state. However due to lack of an exchange programme and the difference in the curriculum they were not allowed to do so. One more difficulty in requiring students to study abroad would be of language. For example, a native German person studying in the German language if has to go abroad would require to learn another language. Investing time to learn another language for just six months of study in a different country would prove counterproductive, his time would be better invested he has decided that he is going to going to continue staying in his home country.
Spending a semester abroad has costs associated with it. Requiring students to bear those expenses without their will seems inappropriate. Another question we need to ask is studying in a foreign country is going to contribute the individual growth in the way he wants. To give an example, Humanities students and students studying a foreign language would profit from travelling to a foreign country of their study. These students would be exposed to numerous things which would benefit them to get a better grasp of their course. However, students studying local architecture and building construction techniques would not be benefited from such foreign travels.
As stated in the first paragraph studying abroad has its strong points. However, it is necessary to take into consideration the various aspects associated with such a requirement. In my opening, universities should promote spending one semester in a foreign country as opposed to requiring it.
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 715, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'learning'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'require' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: learning
...guage if has to go abroad would require to learn another language. Investing time to lea...
^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 926, Rule ID: PHRASE_REPETITION[1]
Message: This phrase is duplicated. You should probably leave only 'going to'.
Suggestion: going to
...tter invested he has decided that he is going to going to continue staying in his home country. ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 665, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...be benefited from such foreign travels. As stated in the first paragraph studying ...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, regarding, so, third, well, as to, at least, for example, for instance, sort of, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 14.8657303371 40% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 3.0 11.3162921348 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 33.0505617978 73% => OK
Preposition: 70.0 58.6224719101 119% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2179.0 2235.4752809 97% => OK
No of words: 421.0 442.535393258 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1757719715 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52971130743 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92950289942 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 215.323595506 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.491686460808 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 677.7 704.065955056 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.898834483 60.3974514979 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.95 118.986275619 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.05 23.4991977007 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.8 5.21951772744 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => 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: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.296765183748 0.243740707755 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0972796878242 0.0831039109588 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0662693877366 0.0758088955206 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.190420167603 0.150359130593 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0307145216617 0.0667264976115 46% => 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: 13.5 14.1392134831 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 12.1639044944 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 100.480337079 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 715, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'learning'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'require' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: learning
...guage if has to go abroad would require to learn another language. Investing time to lea...
^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 926, Rule ID: PHRASE_REPETITION[1]
Message: This phrase is duplicated. You should probably leave only 'going to'.
Suggestion: going to
...tter invested he has decided that he is going to going to continue staying in his home country. ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 665, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...be benefited from such foreign travels. As stated in the first paragraph studying ...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, regarding, so, third, well, as to, at least, for example, for instance, sort of, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.5258426966 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 14.8657303371 40% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 3.0 11.3162921348 27% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 33.0505617978 73% => OK
Preposition: 70.0 58.6224719101 119% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2179.0 2235.4752809 97% => OK
No of words: 421.0 442.535393258 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1757719715 5.05705443957 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52971130743 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92950289942 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 215.323595506 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.491686460808 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 677.7 704.065955056 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 6.24550561798 64% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.898834483 60.3974514979 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.95 118.986275619 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.05 23.4991977007 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.8 5.21951772744 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => 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: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.296765183748 0.243740707755 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0972796878242 0.0831039109588 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0662693877366 0.0758088955206 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.190420167603 0.150359130593 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0307145216617 0.0667264976115 46% => 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: 13.5 14.1392134831 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 12.1639044944 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.38706741573 97% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 100.480337079 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.