Some people believe it is important for universities to provide funding for student entertainment, such as movies or concerts on campus. Others believe that university money should only be used for academic purposes. Which view do you agree with? Explain

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Some people believe it is important for universities to provide funding for student entertainment, such as movies or concerts on campus. Others believe that university money should only be used for academic purposes. Which view do you agree with? Explain why.

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Average: 6.6 (1 vote)
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 509.0 444.711560045 114% => OK
No of words: 127.0 116.580246914 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.00787401575 3.81502700369 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.35699682299 3.28032121604 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.14988028596 1.8723322822 115% => OK
Unique words: 82.0 76.076318743 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.645669291339 0.655143326166 99% => OK
Syllable count: 164.7 141.574747475 116% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0935995364065 0.0738818816272 127% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 127.0 60.3232687746 211% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 50.13 22.9064221017 219% => 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: 19.0 31.1548821549 61% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.68421052632 4.0588447711 165% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.20174698973 3.18357895611 163% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.60526315789 1.46810986539 177% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.82140595903 1.01537252472 179% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 19.0 28.6644219978 66% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 3.97 5.28593714927 75% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.208947368421 0.187982170178 111% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.275526190117 0.154715141812 178% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 42.97 35.408047138 121% => OK
Average word duration: 0.338346456693 0.306236595465 110% => OK
STD word duration: 0.204480381515 0.198589292138 103% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 14.0 6.3164983165 222% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 10.95 5.14435465769 213% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.72 2.80480359147 61% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 50.13 45.0716498316 111% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.114 1.00159221848 111% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.379014562138 0.637764685501 59% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.53341312587 2.58495923209 98% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.63574705765 1.68816559523 97% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.90830812195 2.15290372801 89% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.32264019685 0.343871460585 94% => OK

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Maybe the speech is too long. It should be in 45 seconds.

Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.