The following appeared in a letter from the faculty committee to the president of Seatown University:
A study conducted at nearby Oceania University showed that faculty retention is higher when professors are offered free tuition at the university for their own college-aged children. Therefore, Seatown should institute a free-tuition policy for its professors for the purpose of enhancing morale among the faculty and luring new professors.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The faculty committee's concern for enhancing the morale among the faculty is appreciated. The points mentioned in the letter are however not substantiated by sufficient evidence for implementing the policy mentioned.
The letter talks about a study conducted at a nearby university, which showed that faculty retention was higher when professors were offered free tuition at the university for their own college-aged children. We are not told anywhere about which kind of a study was it. Who conducted this study? Which group of audience did it target? Did it include only those professors who had college-aged children or did it include all the professors? If we would have known answers to all these questions we could have validated the conclusions of this study. But here, in the absence of all these answers, its difficult to formulate a position. What if only few professors were interrogated and those professors who didn't have college-aged children were not included in the study at all? How would providing free tuition at the university for the children, would benefit these professors who weren't included in the study.
Even if we assume that results of the study were accurate and indeed faculty retention proved to be higher when professors were offered free tuition for their own college-aged children, we have no evidence in the letter to help us understand, why the same policy would work at this university as well. Both the universities were different, and it might be the case that one policy would work at a particular university and the same would have no effect on the other one. Let us assume, University of Seatown had majority professors who were yet to be married or had small kids and university of Oceania had majority of professors who had college-aged kinds. In such a case we cannot form a bridge to strengthen that a free tuition policy would help to enhance morale of faculty at the Seatown university. If we had known these details about professors at both the universities, we could have formed a link to say that the policy would be effective and Seatown should institute such a policy.
Thus, as the argument rests on several unwarranted assumptions, it fails to make a convincing case.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not OK
argument 2 -- OK
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minimum 3 arguments wanted.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 374 350
No. of Characters: 1822 1500
No. of Different Words: 160 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.398 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.872 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.8 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 123 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 97 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 69 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 53 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.267 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.471 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.35 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.54 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.192 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1, 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.
...r implementing the policy mentioned. The letter talks about a study conducted at...
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Line 3, column 247, Rule ID: KIND_OF_A[1]
Message: Don't include 'a' after a classification term. Use simply 'kind of'.
Suggestion: kind of
...n. We are not told anywhere about which kind of a study was it. Who conducted this study?...
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Line 3, column 441, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...n or did it include all the professors? If we would have known answers to all thes...
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Line 3, column 447, Rule ID: IF_WOULD_HAVE_VBN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'had known'?
Suggestion: had known
...id it include all the professors? If we would have known answers to all these questions we could...
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Line 3, column 707, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...e interrogated and those professors who didnt have college-aged children were not inc...
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Line 3, column 789, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'would' requires the base form of the verb: 'provide'
Suggestion: provide
...included in the study at all? How would providing free tuition at the university for the ...
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Line 3, column 883, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: weren't
...ren, would benefit these professors who werent included in the study. Even if we as...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, so, then, thus, well, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 28.8173652695 115% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 55.5748502994 70% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1861.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 372.0 441.139720559 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.00268817204 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.39173103935 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85334868878 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 204.123752495 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.44623655914 0.468620217663 95% => OK
syllable_count: 600.3 705.55239521 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.8339633217 57.8364921388 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.470588235 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8823529412 23.324526521 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.76470588235 5.70786347227 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.353245230482 0.218282227539 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.11857102777 0.0743258471296 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.131334926456 0.0701772020484 187% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.179894402542 0.128457276422 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.112841541034 0.0628817314937 179% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.3799401198 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.72 12.5979740519 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.78 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 98.500998004 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 12.3882235529 57% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.