Colleges and universities should require their students to spend at least one semester studying in a foreign country.
Requiring students to spend a semester studying abroad may seem appealing at first. But at a closer look, the idea raises a few important questions, which at the outset render it problematic, if not completely irrelevant.
For one thing, the implementation of the idea is likely to be costly and cumbersome. Instead of allocating both money and time resources to promote scientific research and finance specialized educational programs, the university would have to pay for costly flights, for accommodation and for any other expenses, and to constantly deal with various bureaucratic and petty technical issues that such a program entails. When dwelling into the details, it appears not to be cost-effective.
But even if the university is able to commit to finance the program, it does not yet mean that it should do so. The primary role of the high education system is to equip students with specific instrumental capacities and theoretical knowledge, so they could later join the working force. The implied presumption of proposed idea is that is should also take care of the students' moral and intellectual character, enriching them with new experiences and providing them an opportunity to see the world. The presumption is unwarranted, though, if not totally pretentious.
The proponents of such an idea may claim that spending some time abroad may enrich students, providing them a golden opportunity to meet new people, acquaint themselves with new cultures and learn something new. The claim, however, does not seem very realistic. While abroad, students will most likely spend their nights drinking and partying, then recovering in the days. Like children in the kinder-garden and pupils in primary schools, if one is willing to oblige students to study hard, it is best to keep them close.
There are many good ways to improve the high education system. Paying higher tuition to attract qualified professors and developing new, advanced materials to better prepare the students are just two of them. With its limited resources, the university should be very prudent in deciding which programs to finance and which to reject. The one semester abroad program is not a successful one, and should thus belong to the latter group.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, look, may, so, then, thus, well, while, for one thing
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 14.8657303371 121% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.3162921348 71% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 33.0505617978 54% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 58.6224719101 70% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1891.0 2235.4752809 85% => OK
No of words: 361.0 442.535393258 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23822714681 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35889894354 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90438160526 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 215.323595506 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.581717451524 0.4932671777 118% => OK
syllable_count: 571.5 704.065955056 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 20.2370786517 84% => 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: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.2676469964 60.3974514979 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.235294118 118.986275619 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2352941176 23.4991977007 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.94117647059 5.21951772744 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.22685125093 0.243740707755 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.069066895214 0.0831039109588 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0796845024174 0.0758088955206 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12482734397 0.150359130593 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0699274262591 0.0667264976115 105% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.1392134831 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 12.1639044944 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.23 8.38706741573 110% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 100.480337079 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 11.8971910112 126% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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