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.
The world is advancing and globalising at an unprecedented rate. The author suggests that colleges and universities should require their students to study abroad for at least one semester. However, he has failed to realise many important factors which can be an hinderance to the suggested policy. Hence, I firmly disagree with the author and I believe such a scheme would be not justified.
When a person moves to a new country, it takes him a certain amount of time to adapt to that place. The person has to adjust to an entirely new culture, weather conditions, cuisine, language etc. Apart from this, he or she might even find it difficult to interact and make new friends. Often it requires a significant amount of time, typically one to two months, to overcome such problems. Since, the fact that a semester is just four months, half of it would be required to adjust to new conditions. To illustrate my view point, consider a student studying in a regional college in south India. He is proficient to the local language of his state, has his food preferences sorted and is accustomed to the hot and humid weather conditions of the southern India. If he is sent to Norway or a similar colder country, various problems, such as the communication problems, surviving cold Norwegian temperature, and adjusting to a completely different type of cuisine, would arise for him. By the time, he overcomes such problems, he would already have been halfway into the semester. Therefore, owing to the above explanation, I believe, it is not reasonable or justifiable that universities and college should require their students to spend at least one semester abroad.
Another important issue that author did not take into consideration is enormous amount of wealth it requires to study in a foreign country. Unless a scholarship is provided, studying in an expensive country such as Singapore or the United States could cost up to 12-15000 USD. Looking at the issue from perspective of a student in a relatively poor nation such as India or Brazil, it could be extremely arduous for the student to accrue so much money. Hence, I stand on contrast with the author and I believe such a policy could cause a great deal of trouble.
Moreover, it is known that the teaching methods vary greatly over the world. A student is inured to teaching method of the country he has been studying in, since his birth. Further, when a student moves to a foreign land with different tutoring methods, it can be really difficult for him or her to grasp the concepts. This can cause the grades of the student to decline and would produce a result contradictory to what was expected of the student.
However, the world is becoming a global village. Global village here signifies that people are working in various countries and are engaging with people belonging to an entirely different cultures. In a society which is moving towards globalisation, it can be an upper hand for a student to have an international exposure. Hence, if a student wants to move abroad to study for a semester or two, he should be encouraged. However, such a policy should not be mandated.
Therefore, I hold my viewpoint that mandating students to study in a foreign country for at least a semester is unreasonable and the cons could easily outweigh the pros of a semester abroad program.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
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Line 5, column 110, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'studying'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'require' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: studying
...s enormous amount of wealth it requires to study in a foreign country. Unless a scholars...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
hence, however, if, look, moreover, really, so, therefore, apart from, as to, at least, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.5258426966 133% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 11.3162921348 106% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 33.0505617978 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 74.0 58.6224719101 126% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2790.0 2235.4752809 125% => OK
No of words: 572.0 442.535393258 129% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87762237762 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89045207381 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8160032531 2.79657885939 101% => OK
Unique words: 271.0 215.323595506 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.473776223776 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 880.2 704.065955056 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 17.0 6.24550561798 272% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.1898043588 60.3974514979 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.6428571429 118.986275619 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4285714286 23.4991977007 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.39285714286 5.21951772744 65% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.83258426966 228% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.221935355524 0.243740707755 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0614142346111 0.0831039109588 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0738832733348 0.0758088955206 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130701656502 0.150359130593 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0444543823465 0.0667264976115 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 14.1392134831 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.8420337079 122% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.1743820225 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.02 12.1639044944 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.33 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 134.0 100.480337079 133% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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