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.
Oceania University conducted a study which showed that faculty retention is higher when free tuition at the university is provided to college-aged children of the professors. Therefore, to enhance the morale of the professors and lure new professors at Seatown University, such a policy should be implemented. Before implementing this suggestion, certain evidence needs to be provided.
Firstly, it is reported that the policy stated has helped in professor retention not professor admission. So it cannot be assumed that adopting the policy will bring new professors at Seatown.
Secondly, no information has been provided about the quality of education in both the universities. It might be the case that Oceania is a better college compared to Seatown and therefore, the professors are pleased to let their children study there. If Seatown is a disreputed college, then such a policy will be of no help in retaining professors.
Thirdly, no evidence is given as to why the professors are not being retained in the first place. The conditions of work may not be suitable to the professors and the issues faced by them in Oceania are not similar to the ones at Seatown.
Hence, the provision of the evidence stated above will be help=ful in strengthening the argument.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, hence, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, third, thirdly, as to, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 11.1786427146 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 10.0 28.8173652695 35% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 55.5748502994 50% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1075.0 2260.96107784 48% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 207.0 441.139720559 47% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.19323671498 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.79308509922 4.56307096286 83% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9985643838 2.78398813304 108% => OK
Unique words: 111.0 204.123752495 54% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.536231884058 0.468620217663 114% => OK
syllable_count: 344.7 705.55239521 49% => syllable counts are too short.
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: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 19.7664670659 56% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.2588900102 57.8364921388 51% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 97.7272727273 119.503703932 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.8181818182 23.324526521 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.1818181818 5.70786347227 178% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => 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: 0.263166951163 0.218282227539 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101259859624 0.0743258471296 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.131035617718 0.0701772020484 187% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.142013606866 0.128457276422 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.134582142621 0.0628817314937 214% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 14.3799401198 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.82 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.88 8.32208582834 107% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 98.500998004 58% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 33.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 2.0 Out of 6
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