The following appeared as part of the Dean’s newsletter:
"The University of Wabash is considering a community service requirement for all undergraduate and graduate students. We believe that the objective of any university is to produce well-rounded and charitable members of society. The proposed graduation requirement would be to complete at least 8 hours of unpaid community service per month for a total of 9 months. The Dean’s office will maintain a list of approved local charities on its website with contact information. This is a fantastic opportunity for students to give back to the community and gain real-world working experience. Most importantly, local charities in need will receive the help that they need to continue their efforts."
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.
The newsletter of the Dean of University of Wabash is ladden with a lot of assumptions, upon which it is believed that the imposition of compulsory community service prerequisite on undergraduate and graduate students of the university will make such students well-rounded and charitable members of the society. Before the core message the newsletter tries to pass across can be believed to achieve its aim, there needs to be further probing and answering of vital questions.
For one, while the fact that the Dean's proposition of a community service requirement may be a laudable move, it is ...
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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: 21 15
No. of Words: 695 350
No. of Characters: 3356 1500
No. of Different Words: 282 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.134 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.829 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.712 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 229 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 196 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 137 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 92 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 33.095 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.229 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.714 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.337 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.562 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.108 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 786, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...zens who can fund such needs. Thus, the students involvement would be more appreciated o...
^^^^^^^^
Line 13, column 706, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'schools'' or 'school's'?
Suggestion: schools'; school's
...chool can decide to include this in the schools curriculum. The buy in of all parties i...
^^^^^^^
Line 17, column 78, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'schools'' or 'school's'?
Suggestion: schools'; school's
...t of approved local charities is on the schools website. However, it was not stated how...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, may, really, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, well, while, at least, for instance, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 29.0 12.9520958084 224% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 21.0 11.1786427146 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 28.8173652695 160% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 100.0 55.5748502994 180% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3443.0 2260.96107784 152% => OK
No of words: 695.0 441.139720559 158% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.95395683453 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.13447686263 4.56307096286 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79851212276 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 295.0 204.123752495 145% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.424460431655 0.468620217663 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1077.3 705.55239521 153% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 2.70958083832 332% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 33.0 22.8473053892 144% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 74.7318410891 57.8364921388 129% => OK
Chars per sentence: 163.952380952 119.503703932 137% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.0952380952 23.324526521 142% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.61904761905 5.70786347227 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.217243925004 0.218282227539 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.074911145422 0.0743258471296 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0679117706829 0.0701772020484 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.13407888854 0.128457276422 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0459140994715 0.0628817314937 73% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.4 14.3799401198 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.98 48.3550499002 79% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.2 12.197005988 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.57 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 145.0 98.500998004 147% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 21.0 12.3882235529 170% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.2 11.1389221557 136% => 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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