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.
The argument is well presented that the writer recommends that Omega University end the implemented teaching assessment system to increase the competitiveness of graduates. Astonishingly plausible as the suggestion may sound, it suffers from the absence of several key evidence, which, if proved unwarranted, will cast doubt on the argument’s credibility. Therefore, we are inquiring more information to better evaluate the claim.
To begin with, we are informed the grades are inflating, but additional evidence is required to attribute such an increase to the evaluation system. On the contrary...
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Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- OK
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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: 20 15
No. of Words: 471 350
No. of Characters: 2534 1500
No. of Different Words: 237 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.659 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.38 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.992 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 201 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 154 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 128 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 87 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.55 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.311 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.7 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.303 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.513 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.126 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, look, may, moreover, so, still, therefore, well, for instance, as a result, as well as, on the contrary, to begin with, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 11.1786427146 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 44.0 16.3942115768 268% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2637.0 2260.96107784 117% => OK
No of words: 471.0 441.139720559 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.59872611465 5.12650576532 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65859790218 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.21554923036 2.78398813304 116% => OK
Unique words: 245.0 204.123752495 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52016985138 0.468620217663 111% => OK
syllable_count: 853.2 705.55239521 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 2.70958083832 332% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.391800939 57.8364921388 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.85 119.503703932 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.55 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.75 5.70786347227 136% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.16385446524 0.218282227539 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0512757453801 0.0743258471296 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0353729911846 0.0701772020484 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0990042857383 0.128457276422 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0170035249552 0.0628817314937 27% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.7 14.3799401198 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 31.21 48.3550499002 65% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.197005988 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.5 12.5979740519 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.44 8.32208582834 113% => OK
difficult_words: 139.0 98.500998004 141% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 12.3882235529 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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