74. 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 article, the director of the alumnae association of Grove College recommends that the college should keep its century-old tradition of all-female education. Although the recommendation may seem convincing at first, the lack of answers leads me to conclude that the argument is invalid on many grounds.
First, the director should answer whether the identity of the college could be changed over time or not. The director assumes that its essential identity could not be changed and because all-female education is its fundamental identity, the director recommends that the college shou...
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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: 29 15
No. of Words: 579 350
No. of Characters: 3004 1500
No. of Different Words: 215 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.905 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.188 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.723 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 248 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 187 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 125 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 76 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.966 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.783 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.586 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.342 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.497 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.108 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
In this article, the director of the alu...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... argument is invalid on many grounds. First, the director should answer whethe...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
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... not mean the threat for its identity. Second, the director contends that the a...
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Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
...ool begins admitting men, there will be a large number of students enrolling the college. Even it...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...r colleges have to adopt coeducation. Lastly, the director also needs to answe...
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... reason to keep the college tradition. In conclusion, the director's recom...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, first, however, if, lastly, may, second, so, then, therefore, thus, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 34.0 19.6327345309 173% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.9520958084 154% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 28.8173652695 135% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 27.0 16.3942115768 165% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3110.0 2260.96107784 138% => OK
No of words: 579.0 441.139720559 131% => OK
Chars per words: 5.3713298791 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.90534594407 4.56307096286 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92639053997 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 204.123752495 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.388601036269 0.468620217663 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 988.2 705.55239521 140% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 20.0 8.76447105788 228% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 9.0 2.70958083832 332% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 19.7664670659 147% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 52.6980495209 57.8364921388 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.24137931 119.503703932 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9655172414 23.324526521 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.48275862069 5.70786347227 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 15.0 4.67664670659 321% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.422575901078 0.218282227539 194% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.122595036761 0.0743258471296 165% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.113822906412 0.0701772020484 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.234821561177 0.128457276422 183% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.09632125724 0.0628817314937 153% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.3799401198 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.3550499002 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.87 12.5979740519 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.85 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 120.0 98.500998004 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 12.3882235529 101% => 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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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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