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: 666.0 444.711560045 150% => OK
No of words: 189.0 116.580246914 162% => Need less no. of words.
Chars per words: 3.52380952381 3.81502700369 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.70779275107 3.28032121604 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.59553420611 1.8723322822 85% => OK
Unique words: 112.0 76.076318743 147% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.592592592593 0.655143326166 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 211.5 141.574747475 149% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.21358024691 91% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0 0.0738818816272 0% => 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: 3.0 3.20202020202 94% => OK
Average paragraph length: 63.0 60.3232687746 104% => OK
STD paragraph length: 73.9909904425 17.3634065801 426% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 21.7233333333 22.9064221017 95% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 24.8557241339 6.49597621602 383% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 42.0 31.1548821549 135% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.5 4.0588447711 111% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.49319065503 3.18357895611 110% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.53547619048 1.46810986539 105% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.936478211124 1.01537252472 92% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 39.0 28.6644219978 136% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.56 5.28593714927 124% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.168205128205 0.187982170178 89% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.14354257467 0.154715141812 93% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 55.6 35.408047138 157% => Less content wanted.
Average word duration: 0.29417989418 0.306236595465 96% => OK
STD word duration: 0.167325647765 0.198589292138 84% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 13.0 6.3164983165 206% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 9.2 5.14435465769 179% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.68 2.80480359147 24% => Good job. The lower, the better.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 65.17 45.0716498316 145% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.44822222222 1.00159221848 145% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.598434862667 0.637764685501 94% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.90010741139 2.58495923209 112% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.71858216971 1.68816559523 102% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.01438848921 2.15290372801 94% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.330771148148 0.343871460585 96% => 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.