The president of Grove College has recommended that the college abandon its century-old tradition of all-female education and begin admitting men. Pointing to other all-female colleges that experienced an increase in applications after adopting coeducation, the president argues that coeducation would lead to a significant increase in applications and enrollment. However, the director of the alumnae association opposes the plan. Arguing that all-female education is essential to the very identity of the college, the director cites annual surveys of incoming students in which these students say that the school's all-female status was the primary reason they selected Grove. The director also points to a survey of Grove alumnae in which a majority of respondents strongly favored keeping the college all female.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
In this argument, the director of alumnae association contends that Grove College should keep the tradition of all-female education instead of coeducation. Though this argument underlie the fact that there are surveys showing preference for keeping all-female tradition among both the students and alumnae, these surveys have some unanswered questions to be clarified. The reasons are as follows.
In the first place, according to a survey of incoming students in Grove College, students prefer to the all-female education which is their major motivation to select the Grove College. However, can this survey show more advantages in all-female education? It is because of this all-female policy that only female students could be qualified as incoming students. Therefore, they would undoubtedly approve of the policy. However, even without this policy, there will be other more students such as male students and female students who don't care about this. Without showing more evidence to prove that coeducation policy would decrease the students' application, the director cannot convince us of not changing the tradition of all-female policy.
Then, in another survey, most of respondents support to keep the all-female policy. However, is it possible that the number of respondents are so small that it cannot represent the whole preference of the alumnae? For example, this survey might be conducted during internet and most of the alumnae might ignore this survey because of their busy career. Small amount of respondents in the survey won't be scientific enough to draw a conclusion. Meanwhile, these respondents might be someone who have spare time, so they might have a relaxed life with no extra money to financially support the Grove College. Therefore, their preference won't be necessary for the Grove College to make a decision. The director cannot conclude that school should not change their policy based on this survey, unless he or she provide enough evidence to answer the above question.
Finally, even if the above questions are answered by the director, is it possible that the changing the policy would be more beneficial compared with some disadvantages? For example, although most students in the Grove College now would disapprove of changing the policy, coeducation would attract more male students and other female students. Furthermore, the collaboration of male students and female students would make a difference during the education. For example, when they are learning physics and they need to finish some experiments. With the help of male students, female students could save energy and learn more knowledge during the process.
In sum, the director did not answer these questions, which is essential to prove the accuracy of this argument. To better assess the argument, the arguer should provide more scientific evidence about the disadvantages of coeducation and present more detailed information about these two surveys.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 537, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...s male students and female students who dont care about this. Without showing more e...
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Line 2, column 641, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...t coeducation policy would decrease the students application, the director cannot convin...
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Line 3, column 26, Rule ID: MOST_SOME_OF_NNS[1]
Message: After 'most of', you should use 'the' ('most of the respondents') or simply say ''most respondents''.
Suggestion: most of the respondents; most respondents
...male policy. Then, in another survey, most of respondents support to keep the all-female policy. ...
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Line 3, column 806, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[1]
Message: The pronoun 'she' must be used with a third-person verb: 'provides'.
Suggestion: provides
... based on this survey, unless he or she provide enough evidence to answer the above que...
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Discourse Markers used:
['finally', 'first', 'furthermore', 'however', 'if', 'so', 'then', 'therefore', 'while', 'for example', 'such as', 'in the first place']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.24171539961 0.25644967241 94% => OK
Verbs: 0.136452241715 0.15541462614 88% => OK
Adjectives: 0.103313840156 0.0836205057962 124% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0487329434698 0.0520304965353 94% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0292397660819 0.0272364105082 107% => OK
Prepositions: 0.122807017544 0.125424944231 98% => OK
Participles: 0.0292397660819 0.0416121511921 70% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.74100263829 2.79052419416 98% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0253411306043 0.026700313972 95% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.122807017544 0.113004496875 109% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0389863547758 0.0255425247493 153% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00974658869396 0.0127820249294 76% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2963.0 2731.13054187 108% => OK
No of words: 460.0 446.07635468 103% => OK
Chars per words: 6.44130434783 6.12365571057 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.6311565067 4.57801047555 101% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.432608695652 0.378187486979 114% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.341304347826 0.287650121315 119% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.265217391304 0.208842608468 127% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.145652173913 0.135150697306 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74100263829 2.79052419416 98% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 207.018472906 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.436956521739 0.469332199767 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 48.4061061746 52.1807786196 93% => OK
How many sentences: 23.0 20.039408867 115% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.2022227129 86% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.247608235 57.7814097925 82% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.826086957 141.986410481 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0 23.2022227129 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.521739130435 0.724660767414 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 3.58251231527 112% => OK
Readability: 54.1304347826 51.9672348444 104% => OK
Elegance: 1.83636363636 1.8405768891 100% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.383733515274 0.441005458295 87% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.129540935614 0.135418324435 96% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0816567089548 0.0829849096947 98% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.548284059483 0.58762219726 93% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.145546868005 0.147661913831 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.164781419917 0.193483328276 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0862258466381 0.0970749176394 89% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.392223917905 0.42659136922 92% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0484066251838 0.0774707102158 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.280600808931 0.312017818177 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0668235021826 0.0698173142475 96% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.33743842365 96% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.87684729064 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.82512315271 166% => OK
Positive topic words: 8.0 6.46551724138 124% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 5.36822660099 93% => OK
Neutral topic words: 6.0 2.82389162562 212% => OK
Total topic words: 19.0 14.657635468 130% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 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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