University Should Allow Eating in Class
Currently, there is a university-wide policy that prohibits eating in the classroom. I disagree with this policy. I think students should be allowed to eat in class. This change would be good for two reasons. For one thing, if students were permitted to eat, they would be able to concentrate better, because students often get hungry during long classes, and hunger makes it difficult to concentrate. Also, if food were allowed in classrooms, it would be possible for us to have in-class parties on the last day of class—with snack foods and beverages—to celebrate the end of each semester.
1. Did you see this letter, Jim?
2. Yeah.
3. It'd be kinda nice to be able to do that, huh?
4. No, actually I don't think it's a good idea.
5. Why not?
6. Well, like the part about how it would help students concentrate.
7. I mean maybe a little snack will help the person who's eating it.
8. But the trouble is that it makes it hard for everyone else to concentrate coz they have to listen to someone munching on chips or biting into an apple or crinkling paper wrappers.
9. I guess is can be kind of disruptive.
10. Yeah, it would interfere with everyone's concentration.
11. You wouldn't be able to pay attention with all the noises going on.
12. Ok.I guess I have to agree with you on that.
13. But what about her other reason?
14. It would be nice to able to have some fun at the end of the semester, right?
15. No, there is a problem with that too.
16. Why?
17. Well, I don't think it appropriate to use class time for that kind of thing.
18. I mean, the last classes are usually pretty important.
19. That's when we will do a lot reviewing for final exams.
20. True.
21. If we use that time for that, we probably wouldn't have time to do as much reviewing, which means we wouldn't be as well prepared for exams.
22. Yeah, I hadn't thought of that.
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 492.0 593.389002037 83% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 132.0 154.784114053 85% => 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: 3.72727272727 3.82920900774 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.38956122427 3.52088357496 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.92310870921 1.81998168104 106% => OK
Unique words: 86.0 93.7942973523 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.651515151515 0.608046397892 107% => OK
Syllable count: 161.1 185.724439919 87% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0251290735407 0.0833886788687 30% => 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 3.90020366599 26% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 132.0 71.3690273242 185% => OK
STD paragraph length: 0.0 24.1299301424 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 44.57 26.8388033085 166% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 8.89323425527 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 21.0 40.266802444 52% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.28571428571 4.20756893501 149% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.09579176767 3.23972648638 126% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.08380952381 1.51236819293 138% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.20644095307 1.0352206224 117% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 22.0 37.9022403259 58% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.81 7.22384928717 67% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.218636363636 0.193825474362 113% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.107926551394 0.16431695912 66% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 37.68 46.6644602851 81% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.285454545455 0.304040633073 94% => OK
STD word duration: 0.160931773782 0.193491353168 83% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 8.88594704684 68% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.32 6.97134419552 62% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.53 3.21433808554 16% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 44.57 59.1375356415 75% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.742833333333 0.985625594026 75% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.493605564281 0.643888735843 77% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.96163338569 2.61565628039 113% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.92954902401 1.58604529434 122% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.28237791932 2.01333574461 113% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.322732386364 0.322651457988 100% => OK
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.