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 recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.
In today’s society, it is very common for college students to travel abroad during their collegiate years. Whether this reason is for experience, adventure, or purely amusement is usually varied. The prompt suggests that universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country. I moderately disagree with this suggestion due to the fact that there are many implications associated with requiring students to study abroad; however, there may be a benefit of this experience for some students.
To begin, there are numerous majors within every university, and a significant amount of them may be disadvantaged by this required plan. One example of this would be pre-med majors. Pre-med majors are required to take an extremely heavy class load on topics like anatomy, chemistry, and physics. It is very common for a pre-med class schedule to be loaded and they would not have time to finish an undergraduate degree within four years if a semester abroad was required. This mandatory semester would in fact be disadvantageous to this group of students because pre-med students need a strong foundation in these classes I mentioned before in order to succeeded and this is not commonly found when studying abroad. The above example illustrates not only why requiring a semester abroad would not be possible for some students but also why it could disadvantageous and detrimental to a student’s foundation.
Subsequently, it is known that study abroad programs are typically quite costly and not every student may be able to afford this requirement. For instance, in a collegiate study abroad program, students are required to pay their normal tuition plus numerous fees that include, airfare, healthcare, and lodging when traveling apart from the group. These fees can amount to tens of thousands of dollars above the standard tuition amount. It is known that the United States especially struggles with the issue of student debt. Currently many students are not able to receive this secondary education because they can’t afford the tuition and adding this required abroad semester would surely cause tuition prices to rise exponentially. This point illustrates why requiring a semester abroad is not feasible in the financial aspect for many students and may cause a decrease in university enrolment.
However, study abroad programs are also referred to as “the best of experience of one’s life” by many students. There is countless study abroad options that not only are the experience of a lifetime but also excel knowledge of students. For example, it is highly recommended when learning a secondary language to travel to that country and immerse yourself in their culture. According to most language teachers this is the best way to become fluent in the language. In these cases, study abroad can be very beneficial to students and it should be recommended but cannot be required.
In conclusion, the topic of mandatory study abroad is very complex and can be seen as advantageous and disadvantageous. Numerous students may benefit from the experiences earned in their study abroad program; however, universities enforcing an abroad semester as a requirement would not bode well for the institution and could affect many students negatively.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, second, so, well, apart from, at least, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.5258426966 164% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 33.0505617978 124% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 63.0 58.6224719101 107% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2795.0 2235.4752809 125% => OK
No of words: 526.0 442.535393258 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31368821293 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.78901763229 4.55969084622 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88650259608 2.79657885939 103% => OK
Unique words: 239.0 215.323595506 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.454372623574 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 880.2 704.065955056 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 3.10617977528 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.2284859516 60.3974514979 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.52173913 118.986275619 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8695652174 23.4991977007 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.13043478261 5.21951772744 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.209134763393 0.243740707755 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0761704003781 0.0831039109588 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0759094624331 0.0758088955206 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148436049612 0.150359130593 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0768011398448 0.0667264976115 115% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.1392134831 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.8420337079 83% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.1743820225 108% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.1639044944 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 133.0 100.480337079 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.8971910112 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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