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 of the argument concludes the necessity of termination of student’s evaluation of the professors in Omega University. The author claims so, because due to the above mentioned procedure students are not successful at getting jobs in their professional careers as compared to nearby Alpha University. The premises presented here may be valid, but seems incomplete, also on examining assumptions taken are unwarranted: further evidences must be needed in order to evaluate the argument.
The author implies that the grades are inflated due to the imposed evaluation system of the Omega Un...
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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: 22 15
No. of Words: 540 350
No. of Characters: 2924 1500
No. of Different Words: 240 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.821 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.415 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.043 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 237 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 188 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 154 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 100 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.545 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.159 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.682 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.315 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.507 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.079 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 316, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...as compared to nearby Alpha University. The premises presented here may be valid, b...
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Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...d in order to evaluate the argument. The author implies that the grades are infl...
^^^
Line 5, column 971, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'will' requires the base form of the verb: 'undermine'
Suggestion: undermine
... the author's argument will surely undermined. The author argues that the propose ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 24, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...y undermined. The author argues that the propose argument is most likely to bring the de...
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Line 7, column 117, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...red effect for the university; however, some of the specific circumstances but be considere...
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Line 9, column 179, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: Some
...roposed methods and its likely outcome. Some of the specific evidences needed to be conside...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, however, if, may, moreover, so, then, well, such as, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 70.0 55.5748502994 126% => OK
Nominalization: 32.0 16.3942115768 195% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3062.0 2260.96107784 135% => OK
No of words: 536.0 441.139720559 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.71268656716 5.12650576532 111% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81161862636 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.43999901568 2.78398813304 124% => OK
Unique words: 256.0 204.123752495 125% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.477611940299 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 979.2 705.55239521 139% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 15.0 8.76447105788 171% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.9289247423 57.8364921388 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.181818182 119.503703932 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3636363636 23.324526521 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.86363636364 5.70786347227 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.131555167794 0.218282227539 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0445290115648 0.0743258471296 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0460344900317 0.0701772020484 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0823296263443 0.128457276422 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0307921365859 0.0628817314937 49% => 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: 17.6 14.3799401198 122% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.2 48.3550499002 62% => OK
smog_index: 13.0 7.1628742515 181% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.197005988 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 16.13 12.5979740519 128% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.63 8.32208582834 116% => OK
difficult_words: 163.0 98.500998004 165% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.5 12.3882235529 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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