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Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country.

The author proposes that every college or university must mandate students to spend a semester in a foreign country. While the proposition of spending time in a seminary abroad has myriad advantages; making it a compulsion for every student will have its own implications. Therefore, both the rewards and consequences of the recommendation must be weighed before any conclusions can be made.

Admittedly, studying in a foreign country has multiple benefits. It broadens the students’ perspective about culture, creed and religion thus inculcating tolerance and respect for others. Students from developed countries develop empathy and learn the harsh realities of life with the realization of their own privileges while visiting under developed nations. On the other hand, students from third world countries when visiting a developed country gain world class research and learning experience in the state-of-art laboratories and pedagogy. They get the opportunity to develop friendships and networks that might widen their job prospects. They can adopt and learn the best practices from a foreign civilization and its education, health and other systems. In addition, learning a foreign language always stimulates brain and enhances intelligence according to the psychologists. The educational institutes also stand to benefit from the enriched cultural and academic experience of their students.

However, the author’s assertion has ramifications due to its inflexibility in enforcing such a policy for every student. Firstly, studying in foreign country has an astronomical costs associated with it. Travel costs, tuition fees and living expenses can prove to be an unnecessary financial burden especially for students from low income countries. This is further exacerbated by the fact that tuition fees for international students are three to four times more than the domestic ones in many countries. This may force students to engage in part-time irrelevant jobs as it has been a common observation in countries such as UK, US, Canada, etc. Not only this compromises a student’s academic performance but may also prove to be too exhausting and engaging for them to derive the other benefits mentioned above. Further, this struggle might prompt students to seek permanent settlement in that for better financial security which is by far a bigger loss for their native country’s economy.

Moreover, not every student can adapt to the drastic change in their living environment that relocation to a foreign country brings with it. The foremost issue that students might fail to cope with is the accompanying ‘cultural shock’. For example, a student coming from a conservative or religious country to the west might find it extremely inconvenient being surrounded by pubs and night clubs. Or he or she may get completely distracted from studies due to excitement of new luxuries and freedom. Failing to quickly learn a new language for essential communication might give them an alienating experience. Inability to learn and obey the laws of a new land may entangle them in legal troubles. Similarly, falling in bad company is always a possibility for vulnerable students. Such scenarios may jeopardize their whole career.

In conclusion, any inflexible requirement for students to spend time abroad will be detrimental in many respects. A viable way would be to encourage students rather than mandating it so that students despising foreign mobility are not forced. Furthermore, universities and colleges might offer scholarships to underprivileged students and extensive pre-departure training to vulnerable ones.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 490, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to experience'
Suggestion: to experience
... gain world class research and learning experience in the state-of-art laboratories and pe...
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Line 5, column 179, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'cost'?
Suggestion: cost
... in foreign country has an astronomical costs associated with it. Travel costs, tuiti...
^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, may, moreover, similarly, so, therefore, third, thus, while, for example, in addition, in conclusion, such as, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.4196629213 161% => OK
Conjunction : 24.0 14.8657303371 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 11.3162921348 80% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 65.0 58.6224719101 111% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 12.9106741573 170% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3087.0 2235.4752809 138% => OK
No of words: 554.0 442.535393258 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.57220216606 5.05705443957 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.85151570047 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.11959577151 2.79657885939 112% => OK
Unique words: 306.0 215.323595506 142% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.552346570397 0.4932671777 112% => OK
syllable_count: 953.1 704.065955056 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 20.2370786517 143% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 33.3910993716 60.3974514979 55% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 106.448275862 118.986275619 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1034482759 23.4991977007 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.24137931034 5.21951772744 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.273917614699 0.243740707755 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0738333347788 0.0831039109588 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0651036520082 0.0758088955206 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.158578668093 0.150359130593 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0290066780182 0.0667264976115 43% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 14.1392134831 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.03 12.1639044944 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.62 8.38706741573 115% => OK
difficult_words: 177.0 100.480337079 176% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments