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
Although this argument looks slightly compelling, there are some serious logical flaws in the argument of the faculty committee. Many of the assumptions made in the argument are unwarranted and are absurd.
The Seatown University's faculty committee's argument is based on a study that was conducted in Oceania university. The study, however, does not provide any information about the wages of the teachers in Oceania university. The teacher wages in Oceania university might be lower than that of Seatown University. Hence, the Oceania university might have offered free tuition for children of faculty members, as an incentive. If a study that provides insightful information about the teacher wages and cost of living in the town - where Oceania university is located - was used, the faculty committee's argument would have been cogent.
The argument also makes an assumption that introducing free tuition policy might lure the new professors. Apparently, this assumption is baseless. The faculty committee is kind of predicting what might persuade the new professors to join the Seatown University. The Seatown university may not be a good place for beginners at all, it may not have that reputation that other good colleges in the town might have. In order to be more persuasive, the faculty committee can provide evidence from a survey, which can prove that the new professors are lured by such policies.
The argument is based on data from some other university. If the faculty committee can collect more relevant data then this argument can be made more compelling.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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... of the teachers in Oceania university. The teacher wages in Oceania university mig...
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Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...sed on data from some other university. If the faculty committee can collect more ...
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Message: Did you mean 'than'?
Suggestion: than
...ommittee can collect more relevant data then this argument can be made more compelli...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'apparently', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'look', 'may', 'so', 'then', 'kind of']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.292418772563 0.25644967241 114% => OK
Verbs: 0.151624548736 0.15541462614 98% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0794223826715 0.0836205057962 95% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0397111913357 0.0520304965353 76% => OK
Pronouns: 0.00361010830325 0.0272364105082 13% => Some pronouns wanted.
Prepositions: 0.119133574007 0.125424944231 95% => OK
Participles: 0.043321299639 0.0416121511921 104% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.81070748242 2.79052419416 101% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0072202166065 0.026700313972 27% => Some infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.140794223827 0.113004496875 125% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.043321299639 0.0255425247493 170% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0180505415162 0.0127820249294 141% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1578.0 2731.13054187 58% => OK
No of words: 253.0 446.07635468 57% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.2371541502 6.12365571057 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98822939669 4.57801047555 87% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.359683794466 0.378187486979 95% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.343873517787 0.287650121315 120% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.225296442688 0.208842608468 108% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.150197628458 0.135150697306 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81070748242 2.79052419416 101% => OK
Unique words: 123.0 207.018472906 59% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.486166007905 0.469332199767 104% => OK
Word variations: 45.1647092275 52.1807786196 87% => OK
How many sentences: 14.0 20.039408867 70% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0714285714 23.2022227129 78% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.6596751545 57.7814097925 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.714285714 141.986410481 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.0714285714 23.2022227129 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.714285714286 0.724660767414 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.14285714286 78% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 3.58251231527 84% => OK
Readability: 52.4587803501 51.9672348444 101% => OK
Elegance: 2.33333333333 1.8405768891 127% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.592305220085 0.441005458295 134% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.142946920043 0.135418324435 106% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.066372606561 0.0829849096947 80% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.624883519619 0.58762219726 106% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.164562833014 0.147661913831 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.26898408385 0.193483328276 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.103328789439 0.0970749176394 106% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.361558794514 0.42659136922 85% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0694630101584 0.0774707102158 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.376681561426 0.312017818177 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.128903211232 0.0698173142475 185% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.33743842365 36% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.87684729064 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.82512315271 62% => OK
Positive topic words: 3.0 6.46551724138 46% => OK
Negative topic words: 8.0 5.36822660099 149% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.82389162562 106% => OK
Total topic words: 14.0 14.657635468 96% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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More content wanted. For issue essays, around 450 words, for argument essays, around 400 words.
Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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