"We recommend that Grove College preserve its century-old tradition of all-female education rather than admit men into its programs. It is true that a majority of faculty members voted in favor of coeducation, arguing that it would encourage more students to apply to Grove. But 80 percent of the students responding to a survey conducted by the student government wanted the school to remain all female, and over half of the alumnae who answered a separate survey also opposed coeducation. Keeping the college all female will improve morale among students and convince alumnae to keep supporting the college financially."
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.
In the memo, the president of Groove College concludes that the school should retain its all-female student body because it will enhance morale and persuade alumnae to continue their financial supports. However, while the president's assertion might hold water, it rests on some unwarranted assumptions that, if not substantiated, dramatically weakens the persuasiveness of the president's argument. Thus the following three questions need to be answered.
First, was the survey on the students conducted scientifically? It is possible that the survey was completed with a non-representative sample of the student body. Perhaps, the survey organizers asked the students in a feminine empowerment class, thus skewing the result of the survey. It is also possible that the survey was conducted online and only the ardent supporters of the female-only education took the survey. If any of these scenarios is true, then the assertion of the president is significantly hampered.
Second, did the alumnae who voted in the survey regarding co-education contribute significant fund to the university? there is the potential that who those alumnae who supported all-female education are the least to contribute to Groove College. Perhaps, most of the funds come from a few select individuals who donate in millions and the vast majority of the graduates do not provide any funding to the school. If this is the case, then the president should conduct a survey on the alumane who contributes the most in school funding, not all the alumnae in general. That would substantially increase the credibility of the argument.
Finally, if the school remains all-female, will some of the faculties in favor of coeducation become disillusioned with the university and look for other jobs? It is possible that the current stock of professors will begin to look for other employment opportunities at other universities if the policy is not changed. If this occurs, the school might lose many of its qualified professors, suffer in the ranking, have fewer students to apply, and thus be considerably hampered in terms of both reputation and funding. If this is true that, the professors fell passionately about the topic, then ignoring their majority vote might not be in the best interest of the university.
In conclusion, while the president may have come to a sound conclusion regarding the make-up of the student body, more data is needed before a firm conclusion is reached. If the president answers the above-mentioned questions, then the argument will be easy to evaluate.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 407 350
No. of Characters: 2105 1500
No. of Different Words: 194 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.492 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.172 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.025 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 154 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 122 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 91 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 68 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.611 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.407 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.778 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.33 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.578 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.083 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...tinue their financial supports. However, while the presidents assertion might hol...
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Line 1, column 224, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'presidents'' or 'president's'?
Suggestion: presidents'; president's
...financial supports. However, while the presidents assertion might hold water, it rests on...
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Line 1, column 379, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'presidents'' or 'president's'?
Suggestion: presidents'; president's
...cally weakens the persuasiveness of the presidents argument. Thus the following three ques...
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Suggestion: Thus,
...suasiveness of the presidents argument. Thus the following three questions need to b...
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Suggestion:
...ive sample of the student body. Perhaps, the survey organizers asked the students...
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...ute significant fund to the university? there is the potential that who those alumnae...
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.... Perhaps, most of the funds come from a few select individuals who donate in mil...
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...ding to the school. If this is the case, then the president should conduct a surv...
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Suggestion: some
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, look, may, regarding, second, so, then, thus, while, in conclusion, in general
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 55.5748502994 92% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2182.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 407.0 441.139720559 92% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.36117936118 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49157444576 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.09264295927 2.78398813304 111% => OK
Unique words: 206.0 204.123752495 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.506142506143 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 677.7 705.55239521 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 2.70958083832 332% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.3292891052 57.8364921388 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.842105263 119.503703932 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4210526316 23.324526521 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.21052631579 5.70786347227 109% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 9.0 5.25449101796 171% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.101637384503 0.218282227539 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0302718007488 0.0743258471296 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0300256386521 0.0701772020484 43% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0512738607123 0.128457276422 40% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0251889880484 0.0628817314937 40% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 14.3799401198 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.3550499002 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.5979740519 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.22 8.32208582834 111% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 98.500998004 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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