More and more students are choosing to study at colleges and universities in a foreign country Do the benefits of studying abroad outweigh the drawbacks

Nowadays, it is popular to go to colleges and universities abroad, which is a highly controversial issue among students and their parents. There is no doubt that choosing to study abroad is extremely beneficial and its advantages outweigh its drawbacks.

On the one hand, there are a plenty of advantages of choosing to study overseas. Firstly, students become more familiar with the new cultures, which is crucial in the modern global world and has a huge impact on being a global person. For instance, when students come to Turkey, they can get familiar with the Turkish cuisine and taste the local foods, which would be a breathtaking experience. These types of changes may enlarge their knowledge about the kitchen and perspective of food. Secondly, being abroad can offer the expansion of social and professional networks, which is vital in a professional career via international contacts. For example, people can get job offers more easily when they have an international background and a network of social connections.

On the other hand, studying abroad may bring about some difficulties, which can be harmful and destructive. One problem is the cost of going abroad to study can be too high for the average citizen. For instance, in some country accommodation and tuition fee may be as high as the minimum wage of that country. Another drawback is associated with that students may experience culture shock and adaptation issues, which is quite common among newbies. The culture and the conditions of the country where they study may be different to their own culture or life styles and these differences may cause students to feel alienated.

In conclusion, while studying abroad brings about some disadvantages in terms of high cost of education and culture shock, it proves to be beneficial for students since it enables students to become more familiar with new cultures and expand their social and professional networks.

Votes
Average: 7.3 (1 vote)

Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, no doubt, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 13.1623246493 137% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 7.85571142285 153% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 10.4138276553 163% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 7.30460921844 164% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 24.0651302605 71% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 41.998997996 93% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1630.0 1615.20841683 101% => OK
No of words: 315.0 315.596192385 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.1746031746 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21286593061 4.20363070211 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85586567574 2.80592935109 102% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 176.041082164 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.514285714286 0.561755894193 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 501.3 506.74238477 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.60771543086 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 5.43587174349 74% => OK
Article: 1.0 2.52805611222 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.10420841683 95% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.809619238477 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 16.0721442886 87% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 20.2975951904 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.3742320511 49.4020404114 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.428571429 106.682146367 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5 20.7667163134 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.78571428571 7.06120827912 124% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.9879759519 100% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.240088661887 0.244688304435 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0864388203279 0.084324248473 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0534225444079 0.0667982634062 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.163448545711 0.151304729494 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0436466819003 0.056905535591 77% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 13.0946893788 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 50.2224549098 98% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 11.3001002004 105% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.4159519038 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.89 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 78.4519038076 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 9.78957915832 112% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.1190380762 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 10.7795591182 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 73.0337078652 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 6.5 Out of 9
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