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: 785.0 444.711560045 177% => OK
No of words: 187.0 116.580246914 160% => Need less no. of words.
Chars per words: 4.19786096257 3.81502700369 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.69794460899 3.28032121604 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.03404071437 1.8723322822 109% => OK
Unique words: 125.0 76.076318743 164% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.668449197861 0.655143326166 102% => OK
Syllable count: 243.0 141.574747475 172% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0416391152633 0.0738818816272 56% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.20202020202 94% => OK
Average paragraph length: 62.3333333333 60.3232687746 103% => OK
STD paragraph length: 57.3720799305 17.3634065801 330% => Paragraph length changes often.
Average paragraph duration: 26.9633333333 22.9064221017 118% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 25.3316459964 6.49597621602 390% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs changes often.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 60.0 31.1548821549 193% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.11666666667 4.0588447711 77% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.82896722419 3.18357895611 89% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.3305 1.46810986539 91% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.907117090935 1.01537252472 89% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 58.0 28.6644219978 202% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 9.35 5.28593714927 177% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.161206896552 0.187982170178 86% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.146500295236 0.154715141812 95% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 67.73 35.408047138 191% => Less content wanted.
Average word duration: 0.362192513369 0.306236595465 118% => OK
STD word duration: 0.224801767334 0.198589292138 113% => 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: 17.93 5.14435465769 349% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.32 2.80480359147 47% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 80.89 45.0716498316 179% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.79755555556 1.00159221848 179% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.717023117814 0.637764685501 112% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.31178143157 2.58495923209 89% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.54530844357 1.68816559523 92% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.84556326591 2.15290372801 86% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.344015026738 0.343871460585 100% => 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.