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 memorandum from the president of Humana University suggests to initiate and actively promote online degree programs to increase enrollment and solve the problem of budget deficiencies. This conclusion is reached by looking at the success online degree programs offered by Omni University, both in terms of increase in number of enrollments, as well as in decreasing the expenditures for dormitory and classroom. However, this evidence is based on assumptions that might distort the conclusion.
To begin with, it is assumed in the memorandum that Omni University's significant decrease in expenditure for dormitory and classroom spaces from prior years is most likely due to introduction of online degree program, as they take place via Internet. However, it might be possible that Omni University had spent a huge amount of money on dormitory and classroom prior to their online degree initiative and hence, the following years showed decrease in expenditure. It might be possible that the expenditure is still huge but only relatively less. Also, since the expectancy of the newly purchased or furnished equipments gets higher as the technology improves, hence it need less maintenance, hence leading to less expenditure. If this examples prove to be true, then it does not guarantee, as mentioned in memorandum, that the expenditure of the University will decrease.
Secondly, it is also assumed that introducing a online degree program will increase the enrollment at the Univeristy. While it is true that an online program is more accessible than offline program, simply introducing the program does not guarantee more participation to the program. Considering a huge amount of online degree programs to choose from, it is has a low chance of getting traction than say a well known
Thus, this assumptions are not well thought out and it needs more thorough and careful evidence to reach to a solid conclusion.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 12 15
No. of Words: 305 350
No. of Characters: 1584 1500
No. of Different Words: 150 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.179 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.193 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.924 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 120 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 95 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 73 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 51 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.417 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.077 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.917 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.373 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.617 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.113 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 56, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'suggests initiating'.
Suggestion: suggests initiating
...from the president of Humana University suggests to initiate and actively promote online degree prog...
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Line 1, column 346, Rule ID: BOTH_AS_WELL_AS[1]
Message: Probable usage error. Use 'and' after 'both'.
Suggestion: and
...s of increase in number of enrollments, as well as in decreasing the expenditures for dor...
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Line 1, column 359, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... in number of enrollments, as well as in decreasing the expenditures for dormitor...
^^
Line 9, column 47, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...ly, it is also assumed that introducing a online degree program will increase the...
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Line 9, column 417, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...f getting traction than say a well known Thus, this assumptions are not well thou...
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Line 13, column 7, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...ction than say a well known Thus, this assumptions are not well thought out an...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, look, second, secondly, so, still, then, thus, well, while, as well as, it is true, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 55.5748502994 74% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1632.0 2260.96107784 72% => OK
No of words: 305.0 441.139720559 69% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.35081967213 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17902490978 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01349468698 2.78398813304 108% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 204.123752495 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.52131147541 0.468620217663 111% => OK
syllable_count: 523.8 705.55239521 74% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
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: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.5502318618 57.8364921388 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 148.363636364 119.503703932 124% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.7272727273 23.324526521 119% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.6363636364 5.70786347227 204% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.289439336827 0.218282227539 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.108701567931 0.0743258471296 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0893638423035 0.0701772020484 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.155276034488 0.128457276422 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.100465162669 0.0628817314937 160% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.6 14.3799401198 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.61 48.3550499002 74% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.197005988 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.05 12.5979740519 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.96 8.32208582834 108% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 98.500998004 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 12.3882235529 125% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => 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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