The table below shows the primary funding sources of international students in the US during the years 2003/04 and 2013/14. Write a 150-word report for a university lecturer describing the data and make comparisons where relevant.
The table compares major financial supports received by international students in the USA between two periods 2003/04 and 2013/14
Overall, the number of students in total was seen with a sharp increase over the given years. Also, an upward trend was witnessed in all types of funding, except for other sources
In 2003/04, out of total of 572 509 overseas students, 67% of them were supported by themselves or their families. Funding from US college or university was received by 134 015 students which comprised only 23% of the total. Foreign government or university, current employer and other sources supported no more than 30 000 students each, which were not over 5% of the total
In 2013/14, personal and family still remained as the main financial source with 574 129 students, accounting for 65% of the total 886052 students. Remarkably, while there was an increase of 390% in students supported by the current employer, an only decrease of 14% was seen in the figure of other sources. With exceptions of Foreign Government or university and current employer, the remaining funding sources were witnessed with 2-4% declines in their proportions of total
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, so, still, while, except for
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 7.0 114% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 6.8 118% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 3.15609756098 63% => OK
Pronoun: 5.0 5.60731707317 89% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 33.7804878049 101% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 3.97073170732 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 978.0 965.302439024 101% => OK
No of words: 191.0 196.424390244 97% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12041884817 4.92477711251 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.71756304063 3.73543355544 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68193685338 2.65546596893 101% => OK
Unique words: 110.0 106.607317073 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.575916230366 0.547539520022 105% => OK
syllable_count: 274.5 283.868780488 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.45097560976 96% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 1.53170731707 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.33902439024 115% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 3.36585365854 149% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 6.0 8.94146341463 67% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 31.0 22.4926829268 138% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 59.0734006696 43.030603864 137% => OK
Chars per sentence: 163.0 112.824112599 144% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.8333333333 22.9334400587 139% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.66666666667 5.23603664747 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 3.70975609756 108% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 1.13902439024 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.09268292683 49% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.171135260151 0.215688989381 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0930100511561 0.103423049105 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0379086209999 0.0843802449381 45% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.118894655872 0.15604864568 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0520025225415 0.0819641961636 63% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.6 13.2329268293 141% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.93 61.2550243902 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.51609756098 48% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 10.3012195122 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.01 11.4140731707 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.73 8.06136585366 108% => OK
difficult_words: 43.0 40.7170731707 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.4329268293 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 10.9970731707 131% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.0658536585 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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