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 argument makes a number of unwarranted assumptions regarding building new dormitories for the increasing number of students in the Buckingham college. Taken as a whole, these unwarranted assumptions render argument highly suspect. Indeed, if the unstated assumptions do not hold true, the argument falls apart.
The director of the student housing at Buckingham college makes a pivotal logical error that the attractive new dormitories would make prospective students more likely to enroll at Buckingham. The enrollments of the students in the college may depend on the dormitories but the cardinal reason for enrollment depend on factors like teaching and its present rank among all colleges.
The argument asserts that Buckingham college enrollment is growing and, based on the present trends, it would be doubled in next fifty years. Buckingham college may have an increasing number of enrollments. But that does not mean that all students matriculating in Buckingham are choosing to reside in Buckingham dormitories. Some students might be coming to be college daily from home. Unless the director of student housing provides the number of students opting dormitories and number of students coming from home, the construction of new dormitories might not be useful as the director thinks.
The argument assumes that since the average rent for an apartment in the town has risen, it would be difficult for the students to afford off-campus housing. The average rent may have risen in the town but a group of students might be sharing a single apartment thereby reducing the rent per head.
In this way, the rent for an apartment paid by a single student might be less than the fee for the dormitory. Moreover, the director did not clarify about the fee for the dormitory. Unless the director provides the fee for the dormitory, it can not be decided which option might be economical for the students.
The argument makes a number of unstated assumptions that seriously undermine its validity. Unless these assumptions are addressed the argument falls apart, and the conclusion that the attractive new dormitories would make prospective students more likely to enroll at Buckingham could be flawed.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 352 350
No. of Characters: 1820 1500
No. of Different Words: 144 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.331 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.17 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.797 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 142 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 111 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 83 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.706 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.737 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.412 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.375 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.613 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.152 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, 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.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, may, moreover, regarding, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 28.8173652695 52% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 55.5748502994 70% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1870.0 2260.96107784 83% => OK
No of words: 352.0 441.139720559 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.3125 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33147354134 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84844455162 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 204.123752495 74% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.431818181818 0.468620217663 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 569.7 705.55239521 81% => 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: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.915363668 57.8364921388 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.0 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7058823529 23.324526521 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.17647058824 5.70786347227 38% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.356882155678 0.218282227539 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.131373018798 0.0743258471296 177% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.119673083448 0.0701772020484 171% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.196649059912 0.128457276422 153% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.154340423788 0.0628817314937 245% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.5979740519 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.9 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 98.500998004 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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