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 instruction in the online programs 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 along with our budget deficit. To address these problems, Humana University will begin immediately to create and actively promote online degree programs like those at Omni. We predict that instituting these online degree programs will help Humana both increase its total enrollment and solve its budget problems."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the prediction and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the prediction.
In the memonrandum, the president of Humana University suggests to promote online degree programs and predicts that the measures will help Humana both increase its total enrollment and solve its financial deficit. The author's recommendation is primarily based on the case of the nearby Omni University which has adopted online degree programs. While the president's recommendation may be beneficial to some extent, the reasoning of this argument is unconvincing due to neglecting of several critical questions that, if proven unfavorable, will seriously challenge the author's argument.
To start with, although the author provides the information that students enrolling in online degree programs in Omni University have increased by fifty percent, we also need to know about the overall enrollment of Omni University during past years. It is possible that the dramatic increase in students taking online courses is a result of students who originally take courses on site changing their way of attending lectures. If this is the case, then the overall enrollment will remain the same for Omni University and we have reasons to doubt the president's prediction that instituting online degree programs will help Humana University to increase its total enrollment. On the contrary, if overall enrollment do increase in Omni University, then we are inclined to believe the president's prediction.
In addition, I would also like to raise a series of questions concening the expenditures for dormitory and classroom space in Omni University. Fisrt, is the decrease in expenditure a result of more online programs enrollment? If the decrease in expenditure is achieved through cutting budgets on furniture or closing unnecessary facilities, then there is no point to link the decrease to online programs. Second, even if the decrease in expenditure a direct result of opening online programs, how is the expenditure saving compared with the investment of instituting online programs? If the investment in online programs is so big that cannot be offset by the expenditure decrease in dormitory and classroom space, then the budget deficit problems won't be solved as the president expects.
Finally, we are not informed of the situation of Humana University. Or more specifically, does Humana University have enough teachers, IT abilities and other resources in developing online programs? That online programs have worked out in Omni Univeristy does not guarantee that they will also work out in Humana University.
To draw a conclusion, while I sympathize with the president's intention of increasing enrollment and saving expenditure, whether the recommendation is viable depends heavily on the answers to the aforementioned questions. Only after adequately address the questions can we better assess the president's suggestion and prediction.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 435 350
No. of Characters: 2371 1500
No. of Different Words: 202 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.567 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.451 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.019 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 199 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 153 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 128 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 83 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.588 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.541 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.647 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.377 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.626 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.2 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 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 promoting'.
Suggestion: suggests promoting
...dum, the president of Humana University suggests to promote online degree programs and predicts tha...
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Line 1, column 219, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...nt and solve its financial deficit. The authors recommendation is primarily based on th...
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Line 1, column 355, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'presidents'' or 'president's'?
Suggestion: presidents'; president's
...opted online degree programs. While the presidents recommendation may be beneficial to som...
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Line 1, column 568, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...favorable, will seriously challenge the authors argument. To start with, although ...
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Line 5, column 552, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'presidents'' or 'president's'?
Suggestion: presidents'; president's
...ersity and we have reasons to doubt the presidents prediction that instituting online degr...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'presidents'' or 'president's'?
Suggestion: presidents'; president's
...ty, then we are inclined to believe the presidents prediction. In addition, I would a...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'programs'' or 'program's'?
Suggestion: programs'; program's
... in expenditure a result of more online programs enrollment? If the decrease in expendit...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'presidents'' or 'president's'?
Suggestion: presidents'; president's
...conclusion, while I sympathize with the presidents intention of increasing enrollment and ...
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Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'presidents'' or 'president's'?
Suggestion: presidents'; president's
... the questions can we better assess the presidents suggestion and prediction.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, if, may, second, so, then, while, in addition, on the contrary, to start with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 55.5748502994 108% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 16.3942115768 134% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2422.0 2260.96107784 107% => OK
No of words: 434.0 441.139720559 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.58064516129 5.12650576532 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56428161445 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.08639843431 2.78398813304 111% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 204.123752495 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.483870967742 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 786.6 705.55239521 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 2.70958083832 332% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.5656038587 57.8364921388 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.470588235 119.503703932 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.5294117647 23.324526521 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.41176470588 5.70786347227 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.25449101796 171% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.316867720298 0.218282227539 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109430539438 0.0743258471296 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0730003092899 0.0701772020484 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17076212112 0.128457276422 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0948962536816 0.0628817314937 151% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.6 14.3799401198 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 29.18 48.3550499002 60% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.197005988 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.38 12.5979740519 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.02 8.32208582834 108% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 98.500998004 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 12.3882235529 121% => 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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