The following appeared in a letter from the faculty committee to the president of Seatown University:
A study conducted at nearby Oceania University showed that faculty retention is higher when professors are offered free tuition at the university for their own college-aged children. Therefore, Seatown should institute a free-tuition policy for its professors for the purpose of enhancing morale among the faculty and luring new professors.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
College professors across most parts of the world if not all often do not get many benefits for their children's education. Providing tuition free education for children of the faculty would be a great way to lure professors children to stay in the university areas itself. However attributing this factor to greater retention of professors and developing a policy as such to retain more professors in Seatown University cannot completely be justified.
First and foremost two universities cannot and should not be directly compared and hence something which may have worked at one place may or may not directly work in the other university. Universities are generally compared on different criteria ranking, their location, overall funds they have, etc. The greater retention of professors at Oceania University could actually be related to many of these other factors than just tuition free education for the professors children.
Secondly tuition expenses are not the only expenses borne by parents in raising kids, and thus solving the tuition fees problem cannot be the only solution for retaining professors, it could just be one of the many defining factors in retaining professors.
The argument also states that providing free tuition could boost the morale of the professors. While this is true to some extent, this factor would again most likely be one of the many factors deciding the morale of the professors. Perhaps the ranking of the university, the kind of students taking admission in the university, the kind of facilities provided by the university to its professors to perform research and other activities would be more impactful towards boosting the morale of the professors than just free tuition.
The same above argument could be made about luring new professors. People thinking of becoming professors in Seatown University would consider the rank, students, facilities factors more strongly than their possibly worrying about their yet to be born college kids tuition fees.
In general, if the ranking of the Swatown University is not quite good such a policy might be looked down upon by professors as they might aspire to send their kids to better schools than in Seatown University. In such a scenario providing education related benefits for their children would be a better approach to take from the administration of Seatown University's point of view than providing free tuition at Seatown University. In addition all kids may not aspire to go to college and might have other dreams like becoming athletes or actors. In such a scenario again providing free tuition would not help the professors kids.
Thus in general the argument seems to be a bit vague as it considers providing tuition free education to be a very important factor in retaining their professors or luring new ones, that too from a study conducted in a nearby university. The argument does not exactly consider other important reasons as mentioned above in getting to it's conclusion. Thus it calls for a more sophisticated and detailed study on factors which decide how professors can be retained and to then take action accordingly.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 508 350
No. of Characters: 2594 1500
No. of Different Words: 214 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.748 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.106 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.704 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 196 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 163 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 115 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 71 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 28.222 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.575 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.378 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.665 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.118 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 7 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 274, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...to stay in the university areas itself. However attributing this factor to greater rete...
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Line 11, column 434, 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.
...ing free tuition at Seatown University. In addition all kids may not aspire to go ...
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Line 11, column 437, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[2]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: addition,
... free tuition at Seatown University. In addition all kids may not aspire to go to colleg...
^^^^^^^^
Line 11, column 549, 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.
...reams like becoming athletes or actors. In such a scenario again providing free tu...
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Line 13, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...would not help the professors kids. Thus in general the argument seems to be a b...
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Line 13, column 351, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...ned above in getting to its conclusion. Thus it calls for a more sophisticated and d...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, actually, also, but, first, hence, however, if, look, may, second, secondly, so, then, thus, while, in addition, in general, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 12.9520958084 170% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 13.6137724551 29% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 55.5748502994 124% => OK
Nominalization: 25.0 16.3942115768 152% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2645.0 2260.96107784 117% => OK
No of words: 508.0 441.139720559 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20669291339 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.74751043592 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76724537045 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 204.123752495 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.433070866142 0.468620217663 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 831.6 705.55239521 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.6723538093 57.8364921388 107% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.210526316 119.503703932 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.7368421053 23.324526521 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.63157894737 5.70786347227 134% => OK
Paragraphs: 7.0 5.15768463074 136% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.246177022768 0.218282227539 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0877719416108 0.0743258471296 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0708584081738 0.0701772020484 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130439314662 0.128457276422 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0584986202328 0.0628817314937 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 14.3799401198 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 98.500998004 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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