Several charitable organizations in Pleasantville provide opportunities for teenagers to engage in community service. These organizations have a great need for volunteers, but in recent years, the number of teenage volunteers has significantly declined.The Pleasantville School Board should take measures to increase the number of volunteers. Teachers, parents, and other community members agree that it is important for young people to learn the value of community service. Requiring high school students to engage in community service would provide much-needed assistance to worthy local charities and would also help young people understand the importance of giving back to their community. For this reason, the Pleasantville School Board should institute a program requiring students of Pleasantville High School to complete 40 hours of community service prior to graduation.Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on the assumptions and what the implications are if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
In the argument, the author recommends that the Pleasantville Board School should start a program requiring the school students to complete 40 hours of mandatory community service. They reach the conclusion based on values that the students would gain and the assistance provided to the local charities. However, the author makes some unwarranted assumptions, which if proved incorrect would seriously undermine the argument.
First, the argument prematurely assumes that making the community service mandatory will help the charitable organisations. Community service is something which should not be mandated or forced, a person should try and give back to the society of their own accord not due to compulsion. It is possible that the students who are not interested will find malicious ways to get out of the voluntary work. Thus, making the recommendation seem flawed.
Second, the argument fails to consider the undue burden it will be putting on the students. It assumes that every student will be able to donate 40 hours of community service, and it won't have any impact on their academic performance. A possibility is that the decline in number of students over the years has been because of children not being able to handle both the things at once. Perhaps a few of them also do chores or other menial jobs in their free time. Not everyone will be of the same financial stature, so community service might not be a viable option for them. If either of these scenarios has merit, the argument holds no water.
Finally, it is posited that making high school children volunteer for the charities will help in alleviating their needs. It is possible that some children fail to perform the duties assigned to them properly, considering their age and experience. This might add to the woes of the local charities. Maybe asking only students who are genuinely interested, or more experienced adults who might be better at handling the tasks.
All things considered, the argument, as it stands now, fails to provide a reasonable explanation because of its reliance on fallacious assumptions. If the author is able to provide validation of the assumptions stated, then it will be possible to fully assess the recommendation of the author.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 1 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 369 350
No. of Characters: 1836 1500
No. of Different Words: 195 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.383 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.976 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.728 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 137 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 98 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 76 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.421 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.976 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.474 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.295 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.295 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.07 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 367, Rule ID: IF_IS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'is'?
Suggestion: is
...kes some unwarranted assumptions, which if proved incorrect would seriously underm...
^^
Line 2, column 211, Rule ID: TRY_AND[1]
Message: "Try and" is common in colloquial speech, but "'try to'" is recommended for writing.
Suggestion: try to
... be mandated or forced, a person should try and give back to the society of their own a...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, may, second, so, then, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1877.0 2260.96107784 83% => OK
No of words: 368.0 441.139720559 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10054347826 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37987740619 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82203801718 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.54347826087 0.468620217663 116% => OK
syllable_count: 581.4 705.55239521 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => 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: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 35.6176214597 57.8364921388 62% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.7894736842 119.503703932 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3684210526 23.324526521 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.26315789474 5.70786347227 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.104759834928 0.218282227539 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0305906710085 0.0743258471296 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0338853385763 0.0701772020484 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0544437636777 0.128457276422 42% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0210713871381 0.0628817314937 34% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.3799401198 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.3 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 98.500998004 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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