The following appeared in a memo from the director of student housing at Buckingham College.
"To serve the housing needs of our students, Buckingham College should build a number of new dormitories. Buckingham's enrollment is growing and, based on current trends, will double over the next 50 years, thus making existing dormitory space inadequate. Moreover, the average rent for an apartment in our town has risen in recent years. Consequently, students will find it increasingly difficult to afford off-campus housing. Finally, attractive new dormitories would make prospective students more likely to enroll at Buckingham."
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 topic was about the director of student housing at Buckingham College claimed that to serve housing needs of students college is going to build new dormitories because enrollment is growing and outside campus, rent is also burgeoned and it is hard to afford off-campus housing. The following argument based on unwarranted reasons and flawed for the following reasons.
First of all, the author claimed that Buckingham College should build new dormitories because based on current trends the need for housing will be doubled. Though the author does not provide any information about the trends and actual number about students admissions. It might be possible that enrollment is at peak only for the current year and need will be less in the future. Before making conclusion author must have conducted a survey on students if they need more dormitory or not.
The author also claimed that average rent for an apartment in town also increased and it is difficult to afford off-campus housing. The author again does not provide any actual number or the amount the rent increased in off-campus housing. It might be true that off-campus housings are more affordable than college housing even after the increment. It also might be possible that the rent increase according to regulations and which is a trifle.
The last claim the author made was that students likely to enroll at Buckingham because of attractive new dormitories. The author believed that dormitories play a vital role than education quality and overall college infrastructure. It might be possible that majority students stay in off-campus housing and dormitories remained empty, which might cause lost for college management.
at the end of the topic the argument is flawed and made several unwarranted assumptions and the author fails to provide any convincing argument which can bolster the author's position.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not OK
argument 2 -- not OK
argument 3 -- OK
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samples:
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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: 14 15
No. of Words: 302 350
No. of Characters: 1556 1500
No. of Different Words: 137 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.169 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.152 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.641 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 123 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 94 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 58 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.571 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.926 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.357 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.388 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.625 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.078 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 185, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...which can bolster the authors position.
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, so, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 28.8173652695 56% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 55.5748502994 61% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1581.0 2260.96107784 70% => OK
No of words: 302.0 441.139720559 68% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23509933775 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1687104957 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68961629009 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 138.0 204.123752495 68% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.456953642384 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 485.1 705.55239521 69% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 72.2589852319 57.8364921388 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.615384615 119.503703932 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2307692308 23.324526521 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.53846153846 5.70786347227 44% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.252168507771 0.218282227539 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0990785340899 0.0743258471296 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.103386306479 0.0701772020484 147% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.159613683059 0.128457276422 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.119700361286 0.0628817314937 190% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.41 12.5979740519 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.07 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 98.500998004 64% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.