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."
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 these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The given information states that unpaid community service will be made compulsory for undergraduate and graduate students for nine months. While the decision of the dean might hold water, it rests on several unfounded assumptions that, if unsubstantiated, will weaken the persuasiveness of the argument. Thus, the following three questions must be addressed.
First, will the mandatory community service transform the students into being more charitable and all-rounders? It is possible that the students may take the community service tasks as a burden and complete them as a mundane task without developing a sense of charity within them. On the contrary, this may lead to the development of bitter feelings among students towards community service. Thus, making community service as a requirement may not surely lead to changing the mindset of the students and making them more sympathetic towards their community.
Second, will the time spent on doing community service have no impact on the academics of the students? It is possible that the students may suffer in their academics if they are made to spend 8 hours of every month on a non-academic activity. Moreover, the students may not be able to devote their time to specific projects and skill development programs because of being overburdened by the community service. Since the community service does not carry any weightage in academics, the students may feel overburdened by it and consider it a wastage of their precious time.
Finally, will the time spent on unpaid community service have any effect on the financial condition of the students? Since the community service is unpaid, it may have a negative impact on the economic state of the students. The students may prefer to do paid work in those 8 hours to earn money for their tuition fees and other expenses rather than unpaid work at charitable organizations. Hence, mandatory community service can have a deleterious effect on the financial condition of the students.
In conclusion, the dean may have come to a sound conclusion regarding the mandatory community service, but more information is needed before a firm decision is reached. Thus, the above questions must be addressed to evaluate the validity of the conclusion.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 501, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...he financial condition of the students. In conclusion, the dean may have come to...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, hence, if, may, moreover, regarding, second, so, thus, while, in conclusion, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.6327345309 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 13.6137724551 29% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1903.0 2260.96107784 84% => OK
No of words: 362.0 441.139720559 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.25690607735 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36191444098 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93795017567 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 204.123752495 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.477900552486 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 607.5 705.55239521 86% => OK
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: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.6779989378 57.8364921388 58% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 111.941176471 119.503703932 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2941176471 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.64705882353 5.70786347227 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.192028113266 0.218282227539 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0722905362117 0.0743258471296 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0466610693498 0.0701772020484 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110137015379 0.128457276422 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0388567343232 0.0628817314937 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.3799401198 97% => 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: 8.04 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 98.500998004 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 501, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...he financial condition of the students. In conclusion, the dean may have come to...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, hence, if, may, moreover, regarding, second, so, thus, while, in conclusion, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.6327345309 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 13.6137724551 29% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1903.0 2260.96107784 84% => OK
No of words: 362.0 441.139720559 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.25690607735 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36191444098 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93795017567 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 173.0 204.123752495 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.477900552486 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 607.5 705.55239521 86% => OK
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: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.6779989378 57.8364921388 58% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 111.941176471 119.503703932 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2941176471 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.64705882353 5.70786347227 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.192028113266 0.218282227539 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0722905362117 0.0743258471296 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0466610693498 0.0701772020484 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110137015379 0.128457276422 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0388567343232 0.0628817314937 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.3799401198 97% => 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: 8.04 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 98.500998004 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => 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.