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 author of the argument purportedly asserts that building new dormitories in order to fulfill students' needs will attract majorities of students in near future at Buckingham. However, the premises upon which he puts his claim are fallacious. For the support of which more well-established evidence should be given.
First, the author of the argument contends that the registration at Buckingham is on the rise and will be twice in next 50 years. However, it does not lend credence to the argument since, there is no sufficient evidence to support if students are really interested in continue their education at Buckingham. One point that should be considered is that maybe prospective students prefer to reach tertiary education in other universities or perhaps enrollment experience a fluctuation in near future. In this case, building too many dormitories will be sheer waste of money. It's also important to say that there is no statistics or information to show that in what extent students' population increase in next 50 years.
The author also attributes that students are not able to rent an apartment in off-campus due to the fact that rent of the houses has increased in recent years. Although it might seem tenable at face, it has some detects since due to the paucity of evidence to show if all apartment in the town has risen their rent. One of the main, if not the only, problem with the premise is that there are majorities of apartment in different forms and shapes or even luxury houses in every city, which located in especial part of the town and students could not afford to rent them due to the fact that they might be in a tight budget. In fact, there might be an apartments with lower price in various part of the city that students could rent off-campus. Alongside that, there is not information to show to the extent the rent of the houses has increased. Maybe it is inconsiderable to take it into consideration.
Finally, as set forth by the author Buckingham College should build new dormitories in order to fulfill students' housing needs. Nevertheless, the rationale behind this premise could be challenged owing to inadequate evidence to support if building new apartment on-campus is beneficial for students. One point that should not go unnoticed is that there are crowds of items in a university that need to be updated such as laboratory. Indeed, maybe one or two apartment complex serve students' housing needs and building more houses might be sheer waste of money. Moreover, the author does not mentioned any information about population of students in Buckingham to show that whether they need more dormitories or not.
Having scrutinized the premises, a logical conclusion that can be drawn is that there is some evidence while the presence of which could add to the logic of each premise.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 649, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'an apartment' or simply 'apartments'?
Suggestion: an apartment; apartments
...a tight budget. In fact, there might be an apartments with lower price in various part of the...
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Line 7, column 592, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'mention'
Suggestion: mention
...of money. Moreover, the author does not mentioned any information about population of stu...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'finally', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'moreover', 'nevertheless', 'really', 'so', 'well', 'while', 'in fact', 'such as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.24171539961 0.25644967241 94% => OK
Verbs: 0.153996101365 0.15541462614 99% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0818713450292 0.0836205057962 98% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0526315789474 0.0520304965353 101% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0253411306043 0.0272364105082 93% => OK
Prepositions: 0.148148148148 0.125424944231 118% => OK
Participles: 0.0331384015595 0.0416121511921 80% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.79567274901 2.79052419416 100% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0409356725146 0.026700313972 153% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0916179337232 0.113004496875 81% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0311890838207 0.0255425247493 122% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0175438596491 0.0127820249294 137% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2839.0 2731.13054187 104% => OK
No of words: 477.0 446.07635468 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.95178197065 6.12365571057 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67336384929 4.57801047555 102% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.331236897275 0.378187486979 88% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.259958071279 0.287650121315 90% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.205450733753 0.208842608468 98% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.129979035639 0.135150697306 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79567274901 2.79052419416 100% => OK
Unique words: 213.0 207.018472906 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.446540880503 0.469332199767 95% => OK
Word variations: 50.201370579 52.1807786196 96% => OK
How many sentences: 20.0 20.039408867 100% => OK
Sentence length: 23.85 23.2022227129 103% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.7460272531 57.7814097925 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.95 141.986410481 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.85 23.2022227129 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.75 0.724660767414 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 3.58251231527 56% => OK
Readability: 49.8458071279 51.9672348444 96% => OK
Elegance: 1.82352941176 1.8405768891 99% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.40856386362 0.441005458295 93% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.121673837086 0.135418324435 90% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0914381721324 0.0829849096947 110% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.560179806001 0.58762219726 95% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.174074577936 0.147661913831 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.175685546667 0.193483328276 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0942629406369 0.0970749176394 97% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.418882817275 0.42659136922 98% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0900181676592 0.0774707102158 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.293773119252 0.312017818177 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0459536480659 0.0698173142475 66% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.33743842365 120% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.87684729064 58% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.82512315271 124% => OK
Positive topic words: 9.0 6.46551724138 139% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 5.36822660099 56% => OK
Neutral topic words: 5.0 2.82389162562 177% => OK
Total topic words: 17.0 14.657635468 116% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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