Advisor Meetings Should No Longer Be RequiredAt present, students are required to meet with their academic advisors before the beginning of every semester. The advisors help students select courses and advise them on graduation requirements. However, I do

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Advisor Meetings Should No Longer Be Required

At present, students are required to meet with their academic advisors before the beginning of every semester. The advisors help students select courses and advise them on graduation requirements. However, I don’t see the point of required meetings, since the necessary information about the courses is already available on the university’s website, which all students have access to. In addition, eliminating meetings with advisors would ease the difficulty that students often have in finding a time to schedule a meeting when both they and their advisors are free.

Sincerely,

Amy Williams

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Average: 5 (1 vote)
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 763.0 444.711560045 172% => OK
No of words: 194.0 116.580246914 166% => Need less no. of words.
Chars per words: 3.93298969072 3.81502700369 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.73207559907 3.28032121604 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.91053625815 1.8723322822 102% => OK
Unique words: 115.0 76.076318743 151% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.592783505155 0.655143326166 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 242.1 141.574747475 171% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0104416290968 0.0738818816272 14% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 194.0 60.3232687746 322% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 79.57 22.9064221017 347% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 42.0 31.1548821549 135% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.61904761905 4.0588447711 114% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.92763336564 3.18357895611 123% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.865 1.46810986539 127% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.31870833268 1.01537252472 130% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 44.0 28.6644219978 154% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 8.98 5.28593714927 170% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.204090909091 0.187982170178 109% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.194074940795 0.154715141812 125% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 67.26 35.408047138 190% => Less content wanted.
Average word duration: 0.346701030928 0.306236595465 113% => OK
STD word duration: 0.197951996938 0.198589292138 100% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 22.0 6.3164983165 348% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 16.2 5.14435465769 315% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.93 2.80480359147 33% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 79.57 45.0716498316 177% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.76822222222 1.00159221848 177% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.552972225713 0.637764685501 87% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.43810481337 2.58495923209 94% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.4452683172 1.68816559523 86% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.70978293191 2.15290372801 79% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.378537938144 0.343871460585 110% => OK

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The speech is either too short or too long. It should be in 45 seconds.

Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.