Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country.
The speaker holds that colleges and universities should require their students to study in a foreign country for at least one term. While I agree that studying oversea could bring a lot of benefits, I am not in favor of the idea that it should be compulsory.
Living in an era of globalization when connections among countries have never been tighter, to study and live in a foreign country for a period of time helps ones expand their horizons and acquire a global view of thinking and thus benefits their future career where global cooperation or competition would be commonplace. This is because students can gain a better understanding of the habits, ways of thinking, preferences, and so on of people living in another country by spending time studying and communicating with them; and mutual understanding is the prerequisite of cooperation.
In addition, students are exposed to numerous uncertainties and challenges, for example, cultural shock, language difficulties, and the like, when living in another country. As they will be living away from home with no acquaintances around, they have no choice but to face them and overcome them by themselves, which hones their important skills of living and solving problems independently as well as strengthens their willpower.
However, the fact cannot be ignored that capabilities vary among students and some of them may not have the ability to study in a foreign country. It is possible that some students cannot speak a foreign language at all or that their knowledge of the language is not sufficient for them to live in a foreign country. There is also possibility that some students’ independent living skills are so terrible that they could not live without someone helping them. Also, studying in a foreign country may require a large sum of money and some students may not be able to afford it. And some students may be so xenophobic that they do not want to study outside of their own country. These students are not prepared for studying oversea and forcing them to do so will be counterproductive.
To sum up, I completely agree that studying in a foreign country can benefit a student in many perspective, but I think schools should not require everyone to do that. What schools should do is to encourage their students, prepare them for future opportunities, and provide resources to support them. The choice of whether or not to study abroad should be made by students themselves base on their own preferences and their own goals.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 138, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...udy and live in a foreign country for a period of time helps ones expand their horizons and ac...
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Line 9, column 91, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun perspective seems to be countable; consider using: 'many perspectives'.
Suggestion: many perspectives
...oreign country can benefit a student in many perspective, but I think schools should not require...
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Line 9, column 316, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
...esources to support them. The choice of whether or not to study abroad should be made by stude...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, so, then, thus, well, while, at least, for example, i think, in addition, as well as, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.5258426966 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 33.0505617978 136% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 58.0 58.6224719101 99% => 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: 2101.0 2235.4752809 94% => OK
No of words: 419.0 442.535393258 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.01431980907 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52432199235 4.55969084622 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95780038433 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 215.323595506 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.472553699284 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 648.0 704.065955056 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.2370786517 74% => 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: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.6207633297 60.3974514979 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.066666667 118.986275619 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.9333333333 23.4991977007 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.26666666667 5.21951772744 158% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.364765287877 0.243740707755 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.145571233669 0.0831039109588 175% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.129100346924 0.0758088955206 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.223079798377 0.150359130593 148% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.126488990687 0.0667264976115 190% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 14.1392134831 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 48.8420337079 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 12.1743820225 103% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.1639044944 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.29 8.38706741573 99% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 100.480337079 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 11.8971910112 155% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => 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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