Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
Colleges and universities are grounds for students to learn and develop, both academic knowledge and social skills. A typical college life involves, in addition to all the academic works, involvement in student clubs, work in student governing bodies, organization of cultural and technical festivals, and participation in competitive events. The hectic life of a college student is deeply integrated with the institution itself. Thus, the compulsory requirement of studying a semester abroad would serve to hinder students' development.
No two students are same. A college, thus, should mold its policies in such a way that they put less restrictions on students and be accommodating for different life goals of students. An imposition of compulsory semester at a foreign place puts a restriction which is quite unnecessary. Some students are elected for positions in student governing bodies, a full six-months absence from the institution would lead them to lose significant learning opportunities which they have while presiding over such positions of responsibilities. There are many other activates, which a typical college student takes part in, which a student needs to be involved in throughout the college life in order to take maximum benefit. However, a student not involved in such activates should be free to participate in such programs involving other universities.
To live in a foreign place is always a risky business. There always are uncertainties over the friendliness of environment, food or even people towards a person from different place. In addition, learning foreign language can be a daunting task. Thus, all such adjustments can take significant time, taking up most of the six months period of a semester; it can render the objectives of a foreign university program void. To make such program compulsory, essentially, is to gamble with the odds; such programs would definitely be failure for some students.
A person in favor of such policies would argue the benefits of learning in a foreign university for a certain period: exposure to new ideas, culture and way of living; development of new methods of learning; and creation of international contacts among other things. However, the language barrier involved would devalue most of the aforementioned benefits. Add on to that the money needed for travelling abroad, time needed for adjustments, and other uncertainties, it is much more beneficial to adopt other programmers. Alternatives include: collaboration over internet, organization of international competitions, conduction of foreign tours, etc.
Colleges should not make students to be at some place which they may not want to, as seen from arguments presented above, it can be equivalent to punishment for some students. They should also take into account the kind of academic program a student is enrolled in. So if a program is on basic sciences, it doesn't serve much purpose for a student to be exposed to foreign culture. However, if a program is on humanities, the same may serve to be of enormous benefits.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 516, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...a semester abroad would serve to hinder students development. No two students are s...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... serve to hinder students development. No two students are same. A college, thu...
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Line 2, column 100, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun restrictions is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...ts policies in such a way that they put less restrictions on students and be accommo...
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Line 2, column 550, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun other seems to be countable; consider using: 'many others'.
Suggestion: many others
...ositions of responsibilities. There are many other activates, which a typical college stud...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rograms involving other universities. To live in a foreign place is always a r...
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Message: The adverb 'always' is usually put after the verb 'are'.
Suggestion: are always
...place is always a risky business. There always are uncertainties over the friendliness of ...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...finitely be failure for some students. A person in favor of such policies would...
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Suggestion:
...tions, conduction of foreign tours, etc. Colleges should not make students to be ...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...o if a program is on basic sciences, it doesnt serve much purpose for a student to be ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'so', 'thus', 'while', 'in addition', 'kind of']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.259191176471 0.240241500013 108% => OK
Verbs: 0.137867647059 0.157235817809 88% => OK
Adjectives: 0.108455882353 0.0880659088768 123% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0422794117647 0.0497285424764 85% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0202205882353 0.0444667217837 45% => OK
Prepositions: 0.128676470588 0.12292977631 105% => OK
Participles: 0.0386029411765 0.0406280797675 95% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.15713877718 2.79330140395 113% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0349264705882 0.030933414821 113% => OK
Particles: 0.00183823529412 0.0016655270985 110% => OK
Determiners: 0.0882352941176 0.0997080785238 88% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0275735294118 0.0249443105267 111% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00919117647059 0.0148568991511 62% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3077.0 2732.02544248 113% => OK
No of words: 483.0 452.878318584 107% => OK
Chars per words: 6.37060041408 6.0361032391 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.68799114503 4.58838876751 102% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.414078674948 0.366273622748 113% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.356107660455 0.280924506359 127% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.252587991718 0.200843997647 126% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.163561076605 0.132149295362 124% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.15713877718 2.79330140395 113% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 219.290929204 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.492753623188 0.48968727796 101% => OK
Word variations: 56.997899986 55.4138127331 103% => OK
How many sentences: 23.0 20.6194690265 112% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.380412469 90% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.0169307033 59.4972553346 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.782608696 141.124799967 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0 23.380412469 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.391304347826 0.674092028746 58% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.21349557522 173% => OK
Readability: 56.6107660455 51.4728631049 110% => OK
Elegance: 2.12844036697 1.64882698954 129% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.323130395809 0.391690518653 82% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.108352988006 0.123202303941 88% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0867031816324 0.077325440228 112% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.474441448768 0.547984918172 87% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.142115131606 0.149214159877 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.118976217119 0.161403998019 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0573791646821 0.0892212321368 64% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.341695217512 0.385218514788 89% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0620974929461 0.0692045440612 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.224934348024 0.275328986314 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0662060948388 0.0653680567796 101% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.4325221239 96% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.30420353982 113% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88274336283 143% => OK
Positive topic words: 10.0 7.22455752212 138% => OK
Negative topic words: 4.0 3.66592920354 109% => OK
Neutral topic words: 6.0 2.70907079646 221% => OK
Total topic words: 20.0 13.5995575221 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 79.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.75 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.