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."
The statement within the Dean’s newsletter makes assumptions about the success of the community service requirement that are questionable.
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First, the statement assumes that students will have enough time to both finish the project and perform well in their studies. Second, the argument assumes that local charities will benefit from the work done by the volunteers. Finally, the argument assumes that there are enough local charities to accommodate the students.
The argument assumes that undergraduate and graduate students will have enough time to finish the project and perform well in their studies.
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The objective of a university, first and foremost, is to educate its students. If students are having difficulty with their coursework and truly need to dedicate their time exclusively to studying, then the community service requirement may cause them to perform poorly in classes. Furthermore, some students have jobs and may need to earn money to pay for their education. They simply cannot afford to spend the 8 hours per month necessary to fulfill the requirement and work to pay for their education.
Local charities may be in need of volunteers, but those volunteers should be eager to work for the charity. Some students may be eager to volunteer their services, while others will only be completing the volunteer work because it is mandated.
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Therefore, the local charities may not receive the benefit of productive workers. In fact, the students may be unproductive to the charity’s work and their work environment.
If the Dean is going to require students to do community service, then there should be enough local charities to support the project. Unfortunately, the dean makes the assumption that there are enough charities to support the school’s proposed requirement. Given the number of students that must complete the project, there may not be enough charities in the area. Therefore, some students may not get the opportunity to complete the requirement or they may be delayed in their graduation from the University of Wabash.
The argument presented in the Dean’s newsletter makes assumptions that should not be overlooked. Students and local charities may suffer from this project, as opposed to benefiting from it. Students may not have the time to complete the project; local charities may not be able to accommodate such a large number of students; and local charities may not necessarily benefit from the student’s work.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 8 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 3 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 394 350
No. of Characters: 2021 1500
No. of Different Words: 158 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.455 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.129 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.738 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 148 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 123 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 88 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 59 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.13 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.264 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.696 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.322 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.607 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.118 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 8 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 15, column 299, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
...ies may not be able to accommodate such a large number of students; and local charities may not n...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, if, look, may, second, so, then, therefore, well, while, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 25.0 12.9520958084 193% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2097.0 2260.96107784 93% => OK
No of words: 394.0 441.139720559 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.32233502538 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.45527027702 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87741263389 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 204.123752495 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.41116751269 0.468620217663 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 637.2 705.55239521 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 34.706591593 57.8364921388 60% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.85 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7 23.324526521 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.9 5.70786347227 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 8.0 5.15768463074 155% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
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: 0.138581183217 0.218282227539 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0548956389114 0.0743258471296 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0471423638518 0.0701772020484 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0818781875499 0.128457276422 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0529788379369 0.0628817314937 84% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.3799401198 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.5979740519 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.91 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 98.500998004 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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