The following appeared in a letter from the faculty committee to the president of Seatown University:
A study conducted at nearby Oceania University showed that faculty retention is higher when professors are offered free tuition at the university for their own college-aged children. Therefore, Seatown should institute a free-tuition policy for its professors for the purpose of enhancing morale among the faculty and luring new professors.
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.
This argument needs to be supported by many major evidences. Primarily, it assumes that the condition Oceania university completely equivalent to the Seatown university.
The argument firstly fails to define the category of faculty that has higher retention at Oceania university. The evidence that needs to be provided is either the faculty members who have college-aged children retain higher or there are majority of the faculty members who have none of the college-aged children. Subsequently, it fails to compare the faculty member retention with that of Seatown university's faculty retention. It might be the case that on average the Seatown university's faculty service for more time despite not getting the free education for their own college-aged children.
Secondly, the argument suggests, to lure the new professors, the Seatown university should introduce free-tuition for their professors. Is it the same case with Oceania university? Has that university proved to attract more professors because of introducing this free-tuition policy? Is it only possible alternative to fascinate new professors? If there are other possible alternatives that prove to be cheaper than providing free-tuition for professors then it is not viable to introduce that policy.
By above argument, if it can be assumed that free-tuition policy proves to be positive for Oceania university, however is it feasible for Seatown to provide such benefit? It might be the case that Seatown has very limited budget and it might be non profit university providing education. In such cases, it would be much difficult for it to bear expenses by providing free tuition to the professors.
The argument suggests that unlike Oceania that provide free tuition for college-aged children, Seatown university should provide free tuition for its professors. This points needs strong attention, is it necessary that education for professors cost same as for child-aged children? There can be huge difference in such expenses so that needs to be addressed.
Finally, on higher level, what proves the validity of this study? Is it study published/verified by any renowned organization. It might be the case that the faculty retention calculated by the study may be false. However, if the study is true and it is feasible for Seatown to provide free tuition to enhance its reputition, it is worth it to offer such benefit.
It can be concluded that the argument needs clear verification of study conducted to suggest this benefit to Seatown university.
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Essay evaluation report
flaws:
need to argue according to the topic, like:
Seatown should institute a free-tuition policy for its professors for the purpose of enhancing morale among the faculty and luring new professors.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 397 350
No. of Characters: 2086 1500
No. of Different Words: 163 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.464 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.254 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.865 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 164 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 143 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 92 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 64 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.045 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.792 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.409 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.33 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.596 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.089 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 7 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 237, Rule ID: THERE_RE_MANY[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'majorities'?
Suggestion: majorities
...ged children retain higher or there are majority of the faculty members who have none of...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, as for
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 11.1786427146 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 28.8173652695 153% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 55.5748502994 74% => OK
Nominalization: 29.0 16.3942115768 177% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2133.0 2260.96107784 94% => OK
No of words: 396.0 441.139720559 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.38636363636 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46091344257 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0304829492 2.78398813304 109% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 204.123752495 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.431818181818 0.468620217663 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 695.7 705.55239521 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 41.5579104065 57.8364921388 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.9545454545 119.503703932 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0 23.324526521 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.5 5.70786347227 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 5.15768463074 136% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.329583400992 0.218282227539 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.115023050951 0.0743258471296 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0702725084574 0.0701772020484 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.171924532549 0.128457276422 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0574337229636 0.0628817314937 91% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 36.28 48.3550499002 75% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.69 12.5979740519 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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