Some people believe that university students should be required to attend classes. Others believe that going to classes should be optional for students. Which point of view do you agree with? Use specific reasons and details to explain your answer.

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Some people believe that university students should be required to attend classes. Others believe that going to classes should be optional for students. Which point of view do you agree with? Use specific reasons and details to explain your answer.

Submitted by TakeAway on Mon, 11/27/2017 - 02:43
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 492.0 444.711560045 111% => OK
No of words: 132.0 116.580246914 113% => OK
Chars per words: 3.72727272727 3.81502700369 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.38956122427 3.28032121604 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.92310870921 1.8723322822 103% => OK
Unique words: 86.0 76.076318743 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.651515151515 0.655143326166 99% => OK
Syllable count: 161.1 141.574747475 114% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.117203939856 0.0738818816272 159% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 3.20202020202 31% => OK
Average paragraph length: 132.0 60.3232687746 219% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 17.3634065801 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 44.57 22.9064221017 195% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 6.49597621602 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 21.0 31.1548821549 67% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.28571428571 4.0588447711 155% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.09579176767 3.18357895611 129% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.08380952381 1.46810986539 142% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.20644095307 1.01537252472 119% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 22.0 28.6644219978 77% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.81 5.28593714927 91% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.218636363636 0.187982170178 116% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.107926551394 0.154715141812 70% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 37.68 35.408047138 106% => OK
Average word duration: 0.285454545455 0.306236595465 93% => OK
STD word duration: 0.160931773782 0.198589292138 81% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 6.0 6.3164983165 95% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.32 5.14435465769 84% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 0.53 2.80480359147 19% => Good job. The lower, the better.

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 44.57 45.0716498316 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.990444444444 1.00159221848 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.493605564281 0.637764685501 77% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.96163338569 2.58495923209 115% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.92954902401 1.68816559523 114% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.28237791932 2.15290372801 106% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.322732386364 0.343871460585 94% => OK

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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.