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.
It has been proposed in the Dean's Newsletter of University of Wabash to sanction 8 hours of unpaid community service per month to certain local charities as a requirement of graduation. The purpose of this proposal is to enlighten the students with some experience of the real world working environment. Although the correlations stated in the prompt for making this proposal a successful one are well documented, there are still some unanswered questions and assumptions which are to be cleared of before making any decision.
To begin, it is said in the prompt that the part time service of the students to the local communities will be an unpaid one. But in the real world there are hardly any services which are of free of costs. Then how it can be assumed that the students will get a feel of the real world working environment. If giving a taste of real world working environment is the priority then the university should provide the students with a certain amount of honourary for their efforts and time.
Another thing is presumed that a total of 72 hours of service by a student will be enough to inoculate him to the real world environment. The time aforementioned come to as one of the minimum requirements to be graduated. But what if the students failed to complete this internship? Nevertheless, as a student it is not one's prime duty to work before their graduation, but it is always good. But the time limit for an individual should not be certained. There might be diffculties with different students. Some students might suffer from heavy workloads, some from huge study loads and the list goes on. In those cases, the internship programme will be nothing but a burden to them.
Thirdly, it is emphasized that the local charities will get their works done by the students who will do the part time work there. But is is assumed that the students will be efficient enough in their jobs of the local charities. What if it is found out later that the students doing internships there are not worth enough for these kind of works?
So looking all the assumptions and statements uttered above it wont be a wise decision to come to a conclusion before getting clear answers of the questions.
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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: 7 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 385 350
No. of Characters: 1792 1500
No. of Different Words: 180 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.43 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.655 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.664 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 113 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 89 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 65 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.263 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.354 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.684 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.318 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.528 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.088 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 45, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: part-time
...egin, it is said in the prompt that the part time service of the students to the local co...
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Line 5, column 321, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...p? Nevertheless, as a student it is not ones prime duty to work before their graduat...
^^^^
Line 7, column 110, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: part-time
...ks done by the students who will do the part time work there. But is is assumed that the ...
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Line 7, column 136, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: is
...o will do the part time work there. But is is assumed that the students will be effic...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 328, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this kind' or 'these kinds'?
Suggestion: this kind; these kinds
...ernships there are not worth enough for these kind of works? So looking all the assumpt...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, look, nevertheless, so, still, then, third, thirdly, well, another thing, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1832.0 2260.96107784 81% => OK
No of words: 385.0 441.139720559 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.75844155844 5.12650576532 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4296068528 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74649257306 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 204.123752495 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.467532467532 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 565.2 705.55239521 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.4513491097 57.8364921388 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.4210526316 119.503703932 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2631578947 23.324526521 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.73684210526 5.70786347227 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.161091737432 0.218282227539 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0529703624555 0.0743258471296 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0496214609268 0.0701772020484 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0927642814358 0.128457276422 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0544267901834 0.0628817314937 87% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.1 14.3799401198 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.33 12.5979740519 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.75 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 98.500998004 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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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