The man expresses his opinion about the change described in the article. Briefly summarize the change Then state his opinion about the change and explain the reasons he gives for holding that opinion.

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The man expresses his opinion about the change described in the article. Briefly summarize the change Then state his opinion about the change and explain the reasons he gives for holding that opinion.

University Makes Changes to Orientation Program

Madison University is making a change to the orientation program for first-year students. In the past, as part of orientation, new, incoming students could go on a two-day hiking and camping trip together with other incoming students on the weekend before classes begin. In order to encourage more students to take advantage of the opportunity to get to know one another in an informal setting, the university will now offer a choice of activities: students will be able to either go hiking or participate in organized group games on campus. Additionally, these activities will last one day only, not two, a change many students had requested.

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Average: 7.6 (1 vote)
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Comments

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

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 577.0 593.389002037 97% => OK
No of words: 147.0 154.784114053 95% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.92517006803 3.82920900774 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.48200454523 3.52088357496 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.93811899614 1.81998168104 106% => OK
Unique words: 95.0 93.7942973523 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.646258503401 0.608046397892 106% => OK
Syllable count: 181.8 185.724439919 98% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0190782023522 0.0833886788687 23% => 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 3.90020366599 77% => OK
Average paragraph length: 49.0 71.3690273242 69% => OK
STD paragraph length: 35.8608421541 24.1299301424 149% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 19.0733333333 26.8388033085 71% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 13.3742945816 8.89323425527 150% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 31.0 40.266802444 77% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.74193548387 4.20756893501 113% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.25247044504 3.23972648638 100% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.73838709677 1.51236819293 115% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.998938458417 1.0352206224 96% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 29.0 37.9022403259 77% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.13 7.22384928717 85% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.211379310345 0.193825474362 109% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.173319003036 0.16431695912 105% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 46.76 46.6644602851 100% => OK
Average word duration: 0.318095238095 0.304040633073 105% => OK
STD word duration: 0.185054995809 0.193491353168 96% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 16.0 8.88594704684 180% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 11.55 6.97134419552 166% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.49 3.21433808554 77% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 57.22 59.1375356415 97% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.953666666667 0.985625594026 97% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.506815798672 0.643888735843 79% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.56903180706 2.61565628039 98% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.66025865082 1.58604529434 105% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.03165098375 2.01333574461 101% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.367297639456 0.322651457988 114% => OK

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Rates: 76.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 23.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.