The following appeared as part of the Dean’s newsletter:
"The University of Wabash is considering a community service requirement for all undergraduate and graduate students. We believe that the objective of any university is to produce well-rounded and charitable members of society. The proposed graduation requirement would be to complete at least 8 hours of unpaid community service per month for a total of 9 months. The Dean’s office will maintain a list of approved local charities on its website with contact information. This is a fantastic opportunity for students to give back to the community and gain real-world working experience. Most importantly, local charities in need will receive the help that they need to continue their efforts."
The University of Wabash has done a commendable job of even "considering" making community service mandatory for all graduate and undegraduate students. In today's world of competition and avarice, this is a humble attempt at instilling humility and helpfulness among the younger generation.
The initiative being considered by the university to involve students in charitable works would be a great platform for exposure of the students to the realities of the world around them. It could provide a deeper understanding and retrospection of what life entails beyond success and money. The monthly connects with charities in need is great chance to interact and understand the real life problems in our society. On a broader perspective, it could be a source of learning of life lessons if I may add.
However, the main objective of this practice to create 'well-rounded and charitable' students is debatable. Making the community service a compulsory requirement for all, sounds more like a punishment that what one would rather do out of genuine interest. Considering one hates to do it, he or she would simply be completing the task mechanically or find means to skip it. A genuine feeling to 'give' would not be present.
On a brighter note, irrespective of whether the university is able to nurture every student to becoming a more well-rounded individual, it would definitely have achieved its motive through one individual, if not all, and that is an achievement nonetheless.
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- The following appeared as part of the Dean s newsletter The University of Wabash is considering a community service requirement for all undergraduate and graduate students We believe that the objective of any university is to produce well rounded and char 42
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Comments
e-rater score report
No. of Words: 239 350
Minimum 250 words wanted
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 11 15
No. of Words: 239 350
No. of Characters: 1215 1500
No. of Different Words: 148 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.932 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.084 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.098 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 93 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 79 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 56 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.727 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.864 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.273 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.336 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.598 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.071 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, may, nonetheless, so, still, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.6327345309 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 2.0 13.6137724551 15% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 28.8173652695 52% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 55.5748502994 63% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1258.0 2260.96107784 56% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 239.0 441.139720559 54% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26359832636 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.93187294222 4.56307096286 86% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.33117464224 2.78398813304 120% => OK
Unique words: 146.0 204.123752495 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.610878661088 0.468620217663 130% => OK
syllable_count: 406.8 705.55239521 58% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 19.7664670659 56% => 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: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.6446060433 57.8364921388 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.363636364 119.503703932 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7272727273 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.18181818182 5.70786347227 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.222507242434 0.218282227539 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0716567067614 0.0743258471296 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0809280483239 0.0701772020484 115% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.126650016709 0.128457276422 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0373650480649 0.0628817314937 59% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.3550499002 86% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.43 8.32208582834 113% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 98.500998004 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 33.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 2.0 Out of 6
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