Fifteen years ago, Omega University implemented a new procedure that encouraged students to evaluate the teaching effectiveness of all their professors. Since that time, Omega professors have begun to assign higher grades in their classes, and overall student grade averages at Omega have risen by 30 percent. Potential employers, looking at this dramatic rise in grades, believe that grades at Omega are inflated and do not accurately reflect student achievement; as a result, Omega graduates have not been as successful at getting jobs as have graduates from nearby Alpha University. To enable its graduates to secure better jobs, Omega University should terminate student evaluation of 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.
The author concludes that the evaluation of professors by students must be rescinded in order to secure jobs of graduates from Omega University. He comes to this conclusion based on comparision of the grades of students at present with that of fifteen years ago and also the comparision with graduates of nearby Alpha University. The author's assertion might be true, but following three explanations must be considered to evatuate the credibilty of the argument.
First of all, the author assumes that the increase in grade of students is due to flattery by professors to have a better response from students. Perhaps the increase in grade be due to more dedication put by the professors, so they don' get bad credits. This enthusiastic involvement of lecturers have increased the quality of education consequently increasing grade of the students. Also, more number of intelligent and industrious students might increase in the university in recent years increasing the overall average of the grades. If any of these scenarios have merit, then the argument is significantly flawed.
Secondly, the author assumes that Omega graduates are less preferred by the employers compared to graduates from Alpha University. It might be possible that this observation is surfacial and there is no difference in the eyes of employers about the university of the graduates. It is also possible, that Omega graduates are rarely natives whereas, Alpha graduates are moslty locals. Omega graduates may return to their hometowm after completion of education so, Alpha graduates are more perspicious in the local area that lead to beief that Alpha graduates are more preffered. If any of these cases is true, then the conclusion of the argument does not hold water.
Finally, the author assumes that termination of professor's evaluation increases job security for the Omega graduates. It is possible that Omega University has less collaboration with the recruitment company that reduces job opportunity for the graduates. Also, the curriculum of the university might need to be revised with more attention towards practical approach to make students friendly to professional environment increasing their job chances. If these are the actual situations that have impacted on graduates job security rather than the procedure of evaluation of professor then the persuasiveness of the argument is hindered.
In conclusion, the argument, as it stands now is significantly flawed due to its reliance on unwarranted assumptions. If the author is able to provide evidence to these three claims (perhaps based on systematic study approach), then the viability of the argument can be fully determined.
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 335, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...aduates of nearby Alpha University. The authors assertion might be true, but following ...
^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 450, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
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.
...vironment increasing their job chances. If these are the actual situations that ha...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, finally, first, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, thus, whereas, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 55.5748502994 121% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 16.3942115768 146% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2260.0 2260.96107784 100% => OK
No of words: 420.0 441.139720559 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.38095238095 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52701905584 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04406042234 2.78398813304 109% => OK
Unique words: 195.0 204.123752495 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.464285714286 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 732.6 705.55239521 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.0729907127 57.8364921388 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 118.947368421 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1052631579 23.324526521 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.31578947368 5.70786347227 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.209422861272 0.218282227539 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0673453920295 0.0743258471296 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0567506461736 0.0701772020484 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112065192122 0.128457276422 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0682388623341 0.0628817314937 109% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.3550499002 84% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.92 12.5979740519 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.79 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 98.500998004 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 335, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...aduates of nearby Alpha University. The authors assertion might be true, but following ...
^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 450, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
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.
...vironment increasing their job chances. If these are the actual situations that ha...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, finally, first, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, thus, whereas, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 55.5748502994 121% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 16.3942115768 146% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2260.0 2260.96107784 100% => OK
No of words: 420.0 441.139720559 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.38095238095 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52701905584 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04406042234 2.78398813304 109% => OK
Unique words: 195.0 204.123752495 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.464285714286 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 732.6 705.55239521 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 33.0729907127 57.8364921388 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 118.947368421 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.1052631579 23.324526521 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.31578947368 5.70786347227 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.209422861272 0.218282227539 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0673453920295 0.0743258471296 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0567506461736 0.0701772020484 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.112065192122 0.128457276422 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0682388623341 0.0628817314937 109% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.3550499002 84% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.92 12.5979740519 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.79 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 98.500998004 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.