The following appeared in a letter from the faculty committee to the president of Seatown University:
A study conducted at nearby Oceania University showed that faculty retention is higher when professors are offered free tuition at the university for their own college-aged children. Therefore, Seatown should institute a free-tuition policy for its professors for the purpose of enhancing morale among the faculty and luring new 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.
While the argument is based on a reasonable premise that offering tuition waivers for the professors' children would surely play a part in enhancing their morale as well as their gratefulness towards the university, there are several other factors that have been condoned while basing the argument.
Firstly, the research is said to be conducted by Oceania University but the method or approach of conducting the research is neither mentioned explicitly nor implicitly. There is no mention about answers to questions like who did the survey? How credible is the source? How diligent was the questionnaire? Who were the subjects of the survey? Under what conditions was the survey carried out? etc. Thus we have no way of finding out whether this particular survey can be applicable to Seatown University as well since we cannot compare the conditions or parameters in Seatown University to that of the surveyed universities/professors.
Secondly, the only factor mentioned in the premise and the survey is the 'free tuition for college-aged children of the professors' that is responsible for retention of the professors. This is a very parochial approach since other factors are not considered. There may be several other factors that can be responsible for retention and boosting the morale of professors like the working conditions, basic salary, accommodation or other compensations, research opportunities and facilities, the prestige or reputation of the university, the management of the university, etc. These and many other factors that could be responsible for retention are not taken into consideration and thus we have no way of knowing whether only providing free tuition would be sufficient or not to retain the professors and to boost their morale.
Considering the above mentioned factors and others like whether the children of professors actually are able to qualify to get admitted into Seatown University or the level of satisfaction amongst the professors currently being unknown, I feel that the argument is poorly based. These other discussed factors must be taken into account before implying or implementing anything based on the argument.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: Etc
... conditions was the survey carried out? etc. Thus we have no way of finding out whe...
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Message: Did you mean 'are'?
Suggestion: are
...mentioned in the premise and the survey is the free tuition for college-aged child...
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Discourse Markers used:
['actually', 'but', 'first', 'firstly', 'if', 'may', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'thus', 'well', 'while', 'i feel', 'as well as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.238356164384 0.25644967241 93% => OK
Verbs: 0.172602739726 0.15541462614 111% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0712328767123 0.0836205057962 85% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0547945205479 0.0520304965353 105% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0191780821918 0.0272364105082 70% => OK
Prepositions: 0.120547945205 0.125424944231 96% => OK
Participles: 0.0657534246575 0.0416121511921 158% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.14961652138 2.79052419416 113% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0219178082192 0.026700313972 82% => OK
Particles: 0.00547945205479 0.001811407834 302% => OK
Determiners: 0.12602739726 0.113004496875 112% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0219178082192 0.0255425247493 86% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0219178082192 0.0127820249294 171% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2169.0 2731.13054187 79% => OK
No of words: 339.0 446.07635468 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.3982300885 6.12365571057 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29091512845 4.57801047555 94% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.401179941003 0.378187486979 106% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.356932153392 0.287650121315 124% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.244837758112 0.208842608468 117% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.174041297935 0.135150697306 129% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14961652138 2.79052419416 113% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 207.018472906 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.480825958702 0.469332199767 102% => OK
Word variations: 49.2089396669 52.1807786196 94% => OK
How many sentences: 15.0 20.039408867 75% => OK
Sentence length: 22.6 23.2022227129 97% => OK
Sentence length SD: 106.292970396 57.7814097925 184% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 144.6 141.986410481 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.6 23.2022227129 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.933333333333 0.724660767414 129% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.14285714286 78% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 3.58251231527 56% => OK
Readability: 58.2932153392 51.9672348444 112% => OK
Elegance: 1.72222222222 1.8405768891 94% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.471925311806 0.441005458295 107% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.127892519227 0.135418324435 94% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0938259143235 0.0829849096947 113% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.559441280207 0.58762219726 95% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.242311891461 0.147661913831 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.203049005663 0.193483328276 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.124697120171 0.0970749176394 128% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.447551569173 0.42659136922 105% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.112013157276 0.0774707102158 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.347675731476 0.312017818177 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0511995284237 0.0698173142475 73% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.33743842365 72% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.87684729064 29% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.82512315271 145% => OK
Positive topic words: 5.0 6.46551724138 77% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 5.36822660099 19% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 1.0 2.82389162562 35% => OK
Total topic words: 7.0 14.657635468 48% => More topic words wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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