While the Department of Education in the state of Attra recommends that high school students be assigned homework every day, the data from a recent statewide survey of high school math and science teachers give us reason to question the usefulness of daily homework. In the district of Sanlee, 86 percent of the teachers reported assigning homework three to five times a week, whereas in the district of Marlee, less than 25 percent of the teachers reported assigning homework three to five times a week. Yet the students in Marlee earn better grades overall and are less likely to be required to repeat a year of school than are the students in Sanlee. Therefore, all teachers in our high schools should assign homework no more than twice a week.
In this argument, the author recommends that our high school should assign homework no more than twice a week. To justify the recommendation, the author cites some survey result conducted in two districts recently. Although this recommendation may seem convincing at first glance, scrutinizing the reason on which the author depends on debunk the recommendation.
First and foremost, the author needs to answer the question whether the results of the survey are credible to prove the usefulness of homework. The survey that author cites was conducted in statewide. It is possible that the result of nationwide survey of high school is different. Moreover, the survey was only managed by math and science teachers. this means that the survey results may not be similar when the other subjects are included. even if the daily homework of math and science is useless, everyday homework of english could be effective. Therefore, the author cannot rashly conclude the usefulness of homework.
Second, do two districts, sanlee and Merlee, have the same condition? The author assumes that the reason of the better grade of student in marlee is the less homework while the other factors are identical. Nevertheless, students’ success were due to other factors such as the better teaching methods, more learning facilities, or even high educated teachers. Before answering this possible difference between two districts, the author cannot justifiably conclude that teachers should assign less students’ homework in a week.
Lastly, another question that needs to be answered is whether the other subject teachers between sanlee and marlee agree about the result. As mentioned above, some subjects, such as english and Spanish, need repetition and daily practice. if this is the case, teachers of english in marlee may assign daily homework. Accordingly, without considering the other subjects, the author’s recommendation aiming to our all high school teachers is not plausible.
In summary, the author’s recommendation is not persuasive. In order to bolster the recommendation, the author should provide clear information that nationwide reflects of our school and all effective factors in students’ success in marlee.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- not OK. Need to argue against the conclusion always. For this topic it is:
Therefore, all teachers in our high schools should assign homework no more than twice a week.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 342 350
No. of Characters: 1819 1500
No. of Different Words: 156 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.3 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.319 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.718 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 159 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 110 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 79 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 37 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.118 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.791 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.647 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.368 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.587 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.101 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...epends on debunk the recommendation. First and foremost, the author needs to ...
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...conclude the usefulness of homework. Second, do two districts, sanlee and Mer...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, first, if, lastly, may, moreover, nevertheless, second, so, therefore, while, in summary, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 55.5748502994 70% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1910.0 2260.96107784 84% => OK
No of words: 342.0 441.139720559 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.58479532164 5.12650576532 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30037696126 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.01422706331 2.78398813304 108% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 204.123752495 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.46783625731 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 571.5 705.55239521 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.1226966517 57.8364921388 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.5 119.503703932 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1 23.324526521 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5 5.70786347227 96% => 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 : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.256227748894 0.218282227539 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0839779881893 0.0743258471296 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0538250128269 0.0701772020484 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.143593379726 0.128457276422 112% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0509624757912 0.0628817314937 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.3799401198 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.79 12.5979740519 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 98.500998004 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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