University students are increasingly studying abroad as part of their studies. Do the advantages of studying abroad outweigh the disadvantages?

Many university students routinely study in other institutions around the world's part of their degrees. Although students often struggle with cultural and linguistic challenges while abroad, they also gain significant life experiences that will reward them in their careers. In my opinion, students are far better off having studied in a different country despite the challenges that they will inevitably face.

The greatest benefit of studying abroad is that students will have life experiences that will improve themselves as people that have seen otherwise impossible if they have studied in their own countries. Being in another country requires to push themselves beyond the norm into unusually difficult experiences. For example, when I studied in Indonesia as a twenty-year-old, I was continually pushed out of my comfort zone into psychological states that were unique and novel and that I had to adapt to no matter what. These ultra-challenging experiences are paradoxically the main advantage of studying overseas because they make you grow as a person.

The main challenges that students will face while overseas will usually stem from cultural and linguistic differences. These differences can pose massive obstacles for people because they require one to move beyond the familiar into the unknown which can often be awkward and quite scary. For instance, while studying in Indonesia I had to frequently make a fool myself in order to communicate with the local people in their language. Oftentimes, I felt embarrassed and I longed to speak English and be in the familiarity of my own culture.

In conclusion, studying overseas has become incredibly common.while students will no doubt experience social and language barriers, it is, in fact, these barriers that lead to the main advantage if studying abroad which is personal growth. As a contradiction if sorts, it is the hardship that ultimately makes the experience of studying abroad more advantageous than disadvantageous.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'pushing'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'require' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: pushing
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, so, while, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, no doubt, in my opinion

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 10.5418719212 104% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 6.10837438424 147% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 8.36945812808 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 5.94088669951 219% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 38.0 20.9802955665 181% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 31.9359605911 119% => OK
Nominalization: 4.0 5.75862068966 69% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1690.0 1207.87684729 140% => OK
No of words: 310.0 242.827586207 128% => OK
Chars per words: 5.45161290323 5.00649968141 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19604776685 3.92707691288 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.09481793049 2.71678728327 114% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 139.433497537 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.554838709677 0.580463131201 96% => OK
syllable_count: 526.5 379.143842365 139% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.6157635468 173% => OK
Article: 2.0 1.56157635468 128% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 1.71428571429 292% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.931034482759 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 3.65517241379 82% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 12.6551724138 103% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 20.5024630542 112% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.4737387502 50.4703680194 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.0 104.977214359 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8461538462 20.9669160288 114% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.30769230769 7.25397266985 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.33497536946 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 6.9802955665 86% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 2.75862068966 217% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 2.91625615764 34% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.286175977706 0.242375264174 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107696024417 0.0925447433944 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0885339816707 0.071462118173 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.195988930188 0.151781067708 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0858492559883 0.0609392437508 141% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 12.6369458128 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 53.1260098522 75% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.54236453202 171% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 10.9458128079 122% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.63 11.5310837438 127% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.65 8.32886699507 104% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 55.0591133005 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.94827586207 116% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.3980295567 108% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.5123152709 114% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 80.5555555556 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 72.5 Out of 90
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