The president of Grove College has recommended that the college abandon its century-old tradition of all-female education and begin admitting men. Pointing to other all-female colleges that experienced an increase in applications after adopting coeducation, the president argues that coeducation would lead to a significant increase in applications and enrollment. However, the director of the alumnae association opposes the plan. Arguing that all-female education is essential to the very identity of the college, the director cites annual surveys of incoming students in which these students say that the school's all-female status was the primary reason they selected Grove. The director also points to a survey of Grove alumnae in which a majority of respondents strongly favored keeping the college all female.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation 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 recommendation.
The given passage portrays the views of the president and the administrative staff of Grove College regarding the prospective implementation of coeducational system in the college. Although the writer presents certain data to support his views, he fails to make his intentions more cogent by neglecting certain issues. Primarily, the author fails to educate the reader why the change is intended in the college. The author presents statistics regarding the surveys conducted among the faculty, the students and the alumni to present their views but the reader is in obscurity why the committee has proposed the change. Thus the author would be more informative if he includes the reason for it. The writer implies in his statements that although a majority of the faculty voted for the
New system of education, they must not be paid heed. Thus the decision of the faculty is disregarded in the process. The author fails to deal with the consequences of such a situation, since the faculty usually form the most important section of any academic institution and it would be unwise to challenge their ideas and incur their wrath. The writer is primarily concerned about the alumni members' opinion for the change, with their financial assistance in consideration. However, the economic dependency of the college on the alumni is not made evident in the passage. The novel education scheme in the college could as well do away with the monetary obligations of the alumni.
Thus evidence that the alumni funds are mandatory for the administration of the college would make the governing committee take notice of the president's voice. The writer presumes that the all-female system of education would boost the morale’s of the students. However the writer fails to explain his statements. Coeducational studies could bring in broader thinking and exchange of values among the students. The writer makes a statement about the system that the college has not experienced so far and hence is being presumptuous.
Finally, the writer does not intend to disclose the implementation of his ideas to the new scheme. The writer fails to address the situation faced by the currently studying females in the college, whether the system would be applicable only to the new recruits or will be introduced to existing classes. The position of the students thus hangs in peril. The writer, though intends to convince the committee to revoke its plans of implementing the coeducational scheme, and fails to address certain issues that seem dubious. Hence, only if the author clarifies the aforesaid arguments, does he make himself cogent.
Time : 35min
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Sentence: The given passage portrays the views of the president and the administrative staff of Grove College regarding the prospective implementation of coeducational system in the college.
Error: coeducational Suggestion: No alternate word
Sentence: The writer presumes that the all-female system of education would boost the morale's of the students.
Error: all-female Suggestion: all female
argument 1 -- not OK
argument 2 -- not OK
argument 3 -- not OK
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