The table below shows the primary funding sources of international students in the US during the years 2003/04 and 2013/14. Write a 150-word report for a university lecturer describing the data and make comparisons where relevant.
The table compares different funds for international students in the United States in the years 2003/04 and 2013/14. Overall, personal and family funding was more popular than any other sources during the period. Also, the most noticeable change in percentage from 2003 to 2013 went for the current employer category.
In the 2003-2004 term, personal and family and US college or university were the largest sources, accounting for 67% and 23%, respectively. After 10 years, these percentages decreased by 2% each, while the number of students using these funds saw an upward trend. To be more specific, the figure for personal and family funds rose from 385543 students in 2003 to 574129 students in 2013, and the figure for US college or university climbed to 171218 students.
In 2003, from around 10000 to 30000 students received funds from foreign governments or universities, current employers, or other sources. In 2013, the number of students funded by foreign governments or universities increased dramatically, which made up 383% and 390% change in 10 years, correspondingly. In contrast, the quantity of students funded by other sources dropped by approximately 4000 at the end of the period.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 307, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, so, while, in contrast
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 7.0 43% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 6.8 191% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 3.15609756098 32% => OK
Pronoun: 4.0 5.60731707317 71% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 33.7804878049 95% => OK
Nominalization: 0.0 3.97073170732 0% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1022.0 965.302439024 106% => OK
No of words: 192.0 196.424390244 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.32291666667 4.92477711251 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.72241943641 3.73543355544 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88221844414 2.65546596893 109% => OK
Unique words: 108.0 106.607317073 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5625 0.547539520022 103% => OK
syllable_count: 284.4 283.868780488 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.45097560976 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 1.53170731707 65% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.33902439024 115% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.07073170732 187% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.482926829268 414% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 3.36585365854 208% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 8.94146341463 101% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.4926829268 93% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.668955384 43.030603864 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.555555556 112.824112599 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3333333333 22.9334400587 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.55555555556 5.23603664747 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 3.83414634146 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 1.69756097561 59% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 3.70975609756 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 1.13902439024 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.09268292683 98% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.283233862343 0.215688989381 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.125322391032 0.103423049105 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0875265309954 0.0843802449381 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.202185438524 0.15604864568 130% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0628276118514 0.0819641961636 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 13.2329268293 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 61.2550243902 96% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 10.3012195122 100% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 11.4140731707 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.13 8.06136585366 101% => OK
difficult_words: 42.0 40.7170731707 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.4329268293 74% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.9970731707 95% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.0658536585 81% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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