The following is a letter from a professor at Xanadu college to the college’s president.
“The development of an extensive computer-based long-distance learning program will enhance the reputation of Xanadu College. This program would allow more students to enroll in our courses, thereby increasing our income from student tution. Traditional courses can easily be adapted for distance learners, as was shown by the adaption of two traditional courses for our distance learning trial project last year. Also, by using computer programs and taped lectures, faculty will have fewer classroom obligations and more time to engage in extensive research, thereby enhancing the reputation of Xanadu.”
The argument presented by the professor of Xanadu College to the college’s president concludes that the development of an extensive computer-based long-distance learning program will increase the reputation of the college and will also involve many students across the globe to enroll in the courses provided by the college. However, the argument is quite fallacious as it is based on questionable assumptions and evidences.
Firstly, the argument states that the development of a computer-based course will enhance the reputation of the College. This is quite illogical as the reputation of the college comes from quality education that the college provides with extensive inclusion of practical and analytical knowledge on the subject. Clearly, through computer-based long-distance courses students cannot learn practically and end up with only theoretical learning which is not quite useful for this generation. And skills such as communication, leadership come from classroom learning when the students start interacting among themselves. So, the development of a computer-based long-distance course does not lead to high reputation of the college.
Secondly, the argument mentions about the adaption of two traditional courses for their distance learning trial project which is conducted last year. This is another flaw because they have only tested on the traditional courses which are quite theoretical and are trying to implement long-distance learning for all the available courses. Each course has it’s own requirements and is different in the way they teach. So, we cannot generalise all the subjects based on two traditional subjects.
Moreover, the argument states that more time provided to the faculty will lead to spending more time in extensive research which results in the reputation of the college. It is true that the reputation increases with good results in research but we have to keep in mind that research doesn’t always guarantee in efficient results. It can take more that 10 years to show a small progress in a topic or maybe more. So, replying on research for the reputation of the college isn’t always an option.
After all the observations, we can conclude that it might be hard for the college to rely on computer-based long-distance learning program. The conclusion is a very loosely drawn one as it ignores very important aspects. So the argument is quite weak and fallacious.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 3 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 379 350
No. of Characters: 2001 1500
No. of Different Words: 179 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.412 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.28 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.071 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 149 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 132 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 97 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 63 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.056 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.101 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.354 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.354 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.102 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 107, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to trial'
Suggestion: to trial
...nal courses for their distance learning trial project which is conducted last year. T...
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Line 3, column 354, Rule ID: IT_IS[13]
Message: Did you mean 'its' (possessive pronoun) instead of 'it's' (=it is)?
Suggestion: its
... the available courses. Each course has it’s own requirements and is different in th...
^^^^
Line 4, column 371, Rule ID: A_UNCOUNTABLE[3]
Message: Uncountable nouns are usually not used with an indefinite article. Use simply 'small progress'.
Suggestion: small progress
... It can take more that 10 years to show a small progress in a topic or maybe more. So, replying ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, after all, such as, it is true
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => OK
Nominalization: 28.0 16.3942115768 171% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2049.0 2260.96107784 91% => OK
No of words: 377.0 441.139720559 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.4350132626 5.12650576532 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4064143971 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.12731308058 2.78398813304 112% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 204.123752495 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.480106100796 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 632.7 705.55239521 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.0110709457 57.8364921388 109% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.833333333 119.503703932 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.9444444444 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.94444444444 5.70786347227 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => 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: 0.397963434628 0.218282227539 182% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.114155775582 0.0743258471296 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.127782194697 0.0701772020484 182% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.230837539193 0.128457276422 180% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.14618111541 0.0628817314937 232% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.3550499002 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.27 12.5979740519 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 98.500998004 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 12.3882235529 125% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => 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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