The following is part of a memorandum from the president of Humana University.
"Last year the number of students who enrolled in online degree programs offered by nearby Omni University increased by 50 percent. During the same year, Omni showed a significant decrease from prior years in expenditures for dormitory and classroom space, most likely because online instruction takes place via the Internet. In contrast, over the past three years, enrollment at Humana University has failed to grow and the cost of maintaining buildings has increased. Thus, to increase enrollment and solve the problem of budget deficits at Humana University, we should initiate and actively promote online degree programs like those at Omni."
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 president of the Humana University might not be wrong in thinking that the advent of online education would mitigate the budget deficit problems of the University, but the specifications that he has provided for such a statement is filled with holes that could ultimately lead to the failure of the program and the University as a whole. Firstly, he assumes that the increase in the enrollment at Omni University is primarily due to the online education. The research seems incomplete and rushed and the president seems to have not given much thought to other minute details regarding the program.
The president of the Humana University(HU) assumes that the increase in the enrollment of students in the online degree programs offered by Omni University(OU) is solely because of the advent of online education. The president seems preposterous to make such a conclusion on such insufficient research. Various factors like the appointment of teaching staffs and the quality of education provided by the OU have not been taken into consideration. Moreover, the courses provided by OU, which ultimately, might have led to more enrollment in OU. For instance, the OU could have provided a number of courses but the enrollment in, say, Advanced Physics could be the maximum. The HU might not get sufficient enrollment if such data are not taken into consideration and ultimately may introduce a course which might not entice many students.
The president has stated that there is a 50 percent increase in the number of students enrolling in online education. However, has not taken into consideration enough information regarding the number of students prior to the increase. For instance, if there were 1000 students prior to the increase, then the number of students after increase, i.e. 1500, the president's argument seems justified; however, if there were only 50 students, then the increased number, i.e. 75 is not enough to warrant the introduction of online education in the HU. Hence, due to lack of sufficient research, it is impossible to say that the initiation and active promoting of online degree programs would increase the enrollment significantly.
Moreover, the president accepts that the HU has budget deficits and the introduction of online education degree programs would definitely mean that the budget for the same would have to be obtained in a some other manner. One of the solutions could be to decrease the budget allotted to other degree programs and utilize it for the online education - which ultimately means that there would be serious downgrading of quality in one of the other departments. Had the president acknowledged this fact and stated an acceptable solution, then the above plan might have worked.
While the plan made by the president of the HU could increase the number of enrollment in the university and could ultimately help placate the budget problems, the reasons he has given for such a plan seems preposterous. Had he included the different statistics such as the degree programs offered by the OU, the number of students prior to the increase and after the increase, then his plan would have much more impact when implemented.
- In any situation, progress requires discussion among people who have contrasting points of view. Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In de 58
- The following is part of a memorandum from the president of Humana University. "Last year the number of students who enrolled in online degree programs offered by nearby Omni University increased by 50 percent. During the same year, Omni showed a signific 66
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, may, moreover, regarding, so, then, while, for instance, of course, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 55.5748502994 122% => OK
Nominalization: 28.0 16.3942115768 171% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2669.0 2260.96107784 118% => OK
No of words: 518.0 441.139720559 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15250965251 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77070365392 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8850680663 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 200.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.3861003861 0.468620217663 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 846.9 705.55239521 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 28.0 22.8473053892 123% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.9533574764 57.8364921388 121% => OK
Chars per sentence: 148.277777778 119.503703932 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.7777777778 23.324526521 123% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.44444444444 5.70786347227 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.246152522867 0.218282227539 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0959198224888 0.0743258471296 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0875436863352 0.0701772020484 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151517323479 0.128457276422 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0470177781123 0.0628817314937 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.2 14.3799401198 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 48.3550499002 89% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.197005988 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.18 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.38 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 98.500998004 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 20.0 12.3882235529 161% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.1389221557 119% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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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