The memorandum from the president of Humana University stated that the school will immediately create and promote online degree programs in order to increase enrollment in the school and solve its budget problems. To support the argument, the president assumes that mimicking Omni university whose online degree programs have increased by 50% and has had a significant decrease in expenditures will bring about the desired results. The argument is not persuasive and thus needs to answer three questions to help determine if the prediction is reasonable.
The first question to be answered is, what is people's impression about Humana University? The answer to this question will help us determine if the president's prediction will work. Perhaps, students and parents are not interested in the programs offered by Humana University, or their facilities are not attractive enough to people, or the administration of the University is poor. The answer to this question will help us determine if people will enroll in the Humana online degrees. Otherwise, the cost invested into setting up the programs will be a waste.
Secondly, does Human University have enough funds to set up the online degrees? If Human University does not have enough to fund this project, it is unlikely that they will be able to succeed in doing this. Perhaps, Omni University has been using the funds meant for dormitory and classroom space to ensure smooth running of the online degree programs. Thus, if Humana University do not have enough to set up and keep running the online programs, they might not be able to solve their budget problems as this will only lead to an increase in their expenditure.
Lastly, for how many years has the school existed? If Humana University has just been established five years ago and its growth is being compared to Omni University which had probably been in existence for over 20 years, then the prediction is logically unsound as it might not give the expected return. Perhaps, Omni University has had its share of what Humana University is experiencing presently but have only overcome and is getting results due to its years of experience.
The evidence in support of the conclusion does little to prove the conclusion since it does not address the questions raised. To help strengthen the argument presented by the president of Human University, the questions earlier raised needs to be answered to help us determine if people will enroll in their online degree programs, if they have enough fund to set up and keep running the program and ultimately if taking this step will solve their budget problem and contribute to the school growth.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 7 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 439 350
No. of Characters: 2182 1500
No. of Different Words: 177 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.577 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.97 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.635 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 165 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 115 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 88 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 58 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.824 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.192 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.647 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.359 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.601 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.119 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 91, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...les impression about Humana University? The answer to this question will help us de...
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Line 3, column 149, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'presidents'' or 'president's'?
Suggestion: presidents'; president's
... question will help us determine if the presidents prediction will work. Perhaps, students...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, then, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2232.0 2260.96107784 99% => OK
No of words: 439.0 441.139720559 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08428246014 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57737117129 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69741193625 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.425968109339 0.468620217663 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 703.8 705.55239521 100% => 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
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 79.276486083 57.8364921388 137% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.294117647 119.503703932 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.8235294118 23.324526521 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.29411764706 5.70786347227 58% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.271343245773 0.218282227539 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100000529523 0.0743258471296 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0740322654643 0.0701772020484 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.165564030949 0.128457276422 129% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0792754590448 0.0628817314937 126% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 14.3799401198 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.04 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 98.500998004 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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