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 argument that Omeha University should terminate student evaluation of professors in order to improve the market placement of their students is based on unconvincing reasoning, presenting no causal relations that can support the link between the two actions. More evidence is needed before implementing any measure in this regard.
Although the argument that professors have begun to assign higher grades in their classes to receive better scores might seem logical at first glance, it is flawed and unsupported. In fact, the author does not offer any information able to support his assumpt...
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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: 25 15
No. of Words: 541 350
No. of Characters: 2788 1500
No. of Different Words: 247 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.823 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.153 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.77 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 214 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 171 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 122 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 76 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.64 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.376 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.52 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.285 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.466 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.05 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 654, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...job is a far more complex happening that cannot be attributed only to the grade a...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, look, may, second, so, thus, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in fact, such as, in other words, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 70.0 55.5748502994 126% => OK
Nominalization: 28.0 16.3942115768 171% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2875.0 2260.96107784 127% => OK
No of words: 540.0 441.139720559 122% => OK
Chars per words: 5.32407407407 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82057051367 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84565162944 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 259.0 204.123752495 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.47962962963 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 918.0 705.55239521 130% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.22255489022 213% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.065476008 57.8364921388 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.0 119.503703932 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.44 5.70786347227 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.20758483034 171% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
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: 0.243258669744 0.218282227539 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0631796821452 0.0743258471296 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0650382319806 0.0701772020484 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133432893855 0.128457276422 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0493565740895 0.0628817314937 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 14.3799401198 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.3550499002 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.5979740519 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.83 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 142.0 98.500998004 144% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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