Several charitable organizations in Pleasantville provide opportunities for teenagers to engage in community service. These organizations have a great need for volunteers, but in recent years, the number of teenage volunteers has significantly declined.
The Pleasantville School Board should take measures to increase the number of volunteers. Teachers, parents, and other community members agree that it is important for young people to learn the value of community service. Requiring high school students to engage in community service would provide much-needed assistance to worthy local charities and would also help young people understand the importance of giving back to their community. For this reason, the Pleasantville School Board should institute a program requiring students of Pleasantville High School to complete 40 hours of community service prior to graduation.
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 the assumptions and what the implications are if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The given argument provides information about the reduced number of teenage volunteers participating in charitable events in Pleasantville. The author of the argument has used some assumptions to make his point and has claimed a possible corrective action on the issue. It is suggested, school board institute should implement a program which makes compulsory for students to complete 40 hours of community service prior to graduation. The assumptions author has made need to be evaluated further in order to come to a more solid conclusion about the corrective action.
At first, it is stated in the argument that their are opportunities available for teenagers to volunteer in charitable services, and in recent years the number of young students attending these services is declining. There are few gaps in this statement, for example exactly how many years of data is used to make this statement.It is not made clear, that for how many years, such charity events have been providing chance for young generation to take part in their events. It is possible that, few years back, young generation was not expected to attend charity services but they were doing it anyway. And increasing number of student volunteers made people think that it is good for students themselves and they should do it more frequently. After such increased expectation, young people attendance might have started decreasing. There can be various reasons behind the decline, which author needs to state clearly in order to further evaluate the argument.
Furthermore, it is also mentioned that teachers and parents agree, that it is important for young people to learn the value of community services. Though, there is a possibility that these people have their own ways to teach community values in their children and do not expect it from them to attend available charity services. There can be different reasons for parents and teachers to think that way. It is also possible that during recent years, the educational curriculum in schools have changed and effectively made students more busy, so that they do not find time to attend charity events.
Additionally, author's suggestion says schools should make high school students 40 hours of community service compulsory. It may or may not be possible for school boards to accommodate those 40 hours in student's schedule. It would have helped the author to bolster his suggestion, if he would have mentioned possible ways to make it feasible for students.
It can be concluded from above discussion that the assumptions and evidences author has used to support his suggestion, needs to have more supportive information in order to be acceptable.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 434 350
No. of Characters: 2205 1500
No. of Different Words: 195 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.564 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.081 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.724 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 161 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 122 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 94 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 64 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.111 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.239 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.389 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.326 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.548 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.071 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
The given argument provides information ...
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Line 1, column 573, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...conclusion about the corrective action. At first, it is stated in the argument...
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Line 3, column 47, Rule ID: THEIR_IS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'there'?
Suggestion: there
...irst, it is stated in the argument that their are opportunities available for teenage...
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Line 3, column 332, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: It
... of data is used to make this statement.It is not made clear, that for how many ye...
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Line 4, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rder to further evaluate the argument. Furthermore, it is also mentioned that...
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Line 6, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...t find time to attend charity events. Additionally, authors suggestion says ...
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Line 7, column 289, Rule ID: IF_WOULD_HAVE_VBN[1]
Message: Did you mean 'had mentioned'?
Suggestion: had mentioned
...author to bolster his suggestion, if he would have mentioned possible ways to make it feasible for s...
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Line 7, column 358, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... ways to make it feasible for students. It can be concluded from above discuss...
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Line 9, column 3, 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.
...make it feasible for students. It can be concluded from above discussion ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, anyway, but, first, furthermore, if, may, so, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 44.0 28.8173652695 153% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2256.0 2260.96107784 100% => OK
No of words: 433.0 441.139720559 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21016166282 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56165014514 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82107264986 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.464203233256 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 697.5 705.55239521 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 4.96107784431 222% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => 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: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.3148457693 57.8364921388 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.333333333 119.503703932 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0555555556 23.324526521 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.5 5.70786347227 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.25449101796 171% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => 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: 0.204092813061 0.218282227539 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0687327836347 0.0743258471296 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0606222482836 0.0701772020484 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.108842157448 0.128457276422 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0515576035389 0.0628817314937 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.3799401198 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.25 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 98.500998004 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.