The College of Arts and Sciences has announced that it will require students to write a senior thesis to qualify for graduation, beginning with students who enter the university this coming fall. The senior thesis is currently an option in all departments

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The College of Arts and Sciences has announced that it will require students to write a senior thesis to qualify for graduation, beginning with students who enter the university this coming fall. The senior thesis is currently an option in all departments. Specific criteria have not yet been released by the dean, but they are expected to define the thesis as a year-long research project, undertaken with the guidance of a faculty advisor, that results in a paper of at least 50 pages or the equivalent.

Submitted by bishoy on Wed, 10/02/2019 - 00:24
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Average: 9 (1 vote)
Speaking category
Q3

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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 695.0 593.389002037 117% => OK
No of words: 177.0 154.784114053 114% => OK
Chars per words: 3.92655367232 3.82920900774 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.64748333727 3.52088357496 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.92228265578 1.81998168104 106% => OK
Unique words: 112.0 93.7942973523 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.632768361582 0.608046397892 104% => OK
Syllable count: 219.6 185.724439919 118% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK

Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0706939430229 0.0833886788687 85% => OK

Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 7.0 3.90020366599 179% => OK
Average paragraph length: 25.2857142857 71.3690273242 35% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 17.1690276429 24.1299301424 71% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 8.28285714286 26.8388033085 31% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 5.47708920162 8.89323425527 62% => OK

Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 26.0 40.266802444 65% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.80769230769 4.20756893501 162% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.24281501953 3.23972648638 131% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 2.10884615385 1.51236819293 139% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.12554030418 1.0352206224 109% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 24.0 37.9022403259 63% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.25 7.22384928717 59% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.177083333333 0.193825474362 91% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.156510893302 0.16431695912 95% => OK

Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 49.12 46.6644602851 105% => OK
Average word duration: 0.277514124294 0.304040633073 91% => OK
STD word duration: 0.160174802371 0.193491353168 83% => OK

Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 9.0 8.88594704684 101% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.13 6.97134419552 88% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.52 3.21433808554 78% => OK

Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 57.98 59.1375356415 98% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.966333333333 0.985625594026 98% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.413935839945 0.643888735843 64% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.05277681959 2.61565628039 117% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.93170058641 1.58604529434 122% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.28013029316 2.01333574461 113% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.364091158192 0.322651457988 113% => 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.