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.
First of all, it cannot be inferred that current trends will be the same over the next 50 years. Societies change a lot over time, so does the interest in enrolment in some colleges. For example, if this university was one of the best in the world during these years, but did nothing to maintain or improve its success, it is highly probable that other universities surpassed it in terms of teaching quality, investigation and fame amongst students. Thus, as it is not established if there is a development plan for keeping constant the fame of the university, it cannot be directly inferred that enrolment will go up in the next years. A more fact-based prognostic of the future should be done in order to establish if this trend might be long-lasting.
Secondly, further information about the future evolution of house rent near that college might be needed to determine if prices will bust, fall or remain approximately constant. If a market study is conducted, and it is determined that housing prices will decrease in the next years, it can be inferred that the built of new dormitories may not be necessary.
Thirdly, there is no evidence in the paragraph that the existence of an appealing place to live in is a factor that has an important influence in the selection of a college to study. It is plausible that the teaching quality, as well as the main facilities that are held by that university, are more, or at least equal, tempting parameters that make people decide to engage there. In order to establish the most valuable characteristics that made students select that university among others, a survey on that may be extremely useful.
In conclusion, to estimate the possible advantage on enrolment that the construction of new dormitories would bring, a prognostic of future enrolment in the university, an economic study on the evolution of rents, and a survey on the main parameters that a student finds valuable in deciding which university he wants to be enrolled, are found necessary.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 11 15
No. of Words: 341 350
No. of Characters: 1628 1500
No. of Different Words: 177 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.297 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.774 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.837 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 112 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 88 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 73 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 31 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.529 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 1 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.363 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.601 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.086 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, may, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, thus, well, at least, for example, in conclusion, as well as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1676.0 2260.96107784 74% => OK
No of words: 341.0 441.139720559 77% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.91495601173 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29722995808 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92104193067 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 204.123752495 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.524926686217 0.468620217663 112% => OK
syllable_count: 540.0 705.55239521 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => 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: 31.0 22.8473053892 136% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 73.1765667229 57.8364921388 127% => OK
Chars per sentence: 152.363636364 119.503703932 127% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.0 23.324526521 133% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.0909090909 5.70786347227 212% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0825659514524 0.218282227539 38% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0320621166959 0.0743258471296 43% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0221616178443 0.0701772020484 32% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.05342101163 0.128457276422 42% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0204224406025 0.0628817314937 32% => 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: 17.2 14.3799401198 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.01 48.3550499002 83% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.197005988 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.79 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 98.500998004 74% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.4 11.1389221557 129% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.