The College of Arts and Sciences has announced that it will require students to write a senior thesis to qualify for graduation, beginning with students who enter the university this coming fall. The senior thesis is currently an option in all departments

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The College of Arts and Sciences has announced that it will require students to write a senior thesis to qualify for graduation, beginning with students who enter the university this coming fall. The senior thesis is currently an option in all departments. Specific criteria have not yet been released by the dean, but they are expected to define the thesis as a year-long research project, undertaken with the guidance of a faculty advisor, that results in a paper of at least 50 pages or the equivalent.

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Average: 8.3 (1 vote)
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 644.0 592.248995984 109% => OK
No of words: 166.0 155.574297189 107% => OK
Chars per words: 3.87951807229 3.80514564318 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.58944267634 3.525876923 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.89099062686 1.79077849142 106% => OK
Unique words: 98.0 93.7148594378 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.590361445783 0.604071249207 98% => OK
Syllable count: 196.2 185.844578313 106% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.19417670683 100% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0881544076281 0.0650381309087 136% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 5.0 4.35341365462 115% => OK
Average paragraph length: 33.2 68.503853103 48% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 10.6282642045 21.3332995233 50% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 10.66 25.9943957902 41% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 4.19178720834 7.84667146824 53% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 24.0 42.0642570281 57% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.91666666667 4.02192344571 172% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 5.76567910619 3.1217529195 185% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.11333333333 1.45093177766 146% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.51445718182 0.99851816184 152% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 23.0 39.0421686747 59% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.98 7.12997991968 70% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.21652173913 0.185688545393 117% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.150956621919 0.155154303396 97% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 44.18 47.1480722892 94% => OK
Average word duration: 0.266144578313 0.305395592593 87% => OK
STD word duration: 0.139972728198 0.189427763521 74% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 3.0 7.94979919679 38% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 1.92 6.2937751004 31% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.19 3.39508032129 65% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 53.3 59.7592369478 89% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.888333333333 0.995987282463 89% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.431519699812 0.656000678711 66% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.11444652908 2.60215298798 120% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.83864915572 1.56821927147 117% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.21819827976 1.99336655568 111% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.385026861446 0.317803793328 121% => OK

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It may have duplicated content. Need to use the words more efficiently.

Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.