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.
While the argument states that by offering a free tuition policy, new professors will be attracted towards Seatown, it fails to mention the necessary to support the claim. it assumes that the free tuition is the only factor luring new professors and enhancing the morale among the faculty.
The first major assumption is that, the Oceania university and Seatown are the same in every prospect. It may be possible that they differ in many aspects including- infrastructure, location, tuition fee. Thus, it is not prudent to claim that what is true for Oceania will be true for Seatown. However, if sufficient evidence is provided like the extent of similarities between the universities considering research opportunities, infrastructure then it can create a cogent case.
For the free-tuition policy to work, it is necessary to know the economical condition or budget of the college. If college is not getting a significant amount of funding from investors or the government than free-tuition policy may be deleterious for the university's economy. If it would have given that the investment income of the college and other sources of funding then the argument would have stood valid.
Additionally, it is also assumed that the free-tuition policy is the only factor attracting the new professors. it may be plausible that other features of Oceania University like amenities, research scope, salary of professors can be affecting factors in this case. If it would have provided evidence that the professors are only attracted to Oceania for its free-tuition policy then it would have been safe to assume that this policy will also benefit seatown professors, considering both the universities are same on other aspects.
lastly, it is stated that given this policy, the professors' morale will be enhanced. To justify this claim it is important to evaluate the number of professors this policy is actually affecting. For example, it may be possible that a lot of professors children are of the age to study in college, the argument is justified that that policy will affect professors greatly. However, if the number of professors is less whose children are studying in college than it would seriously weaken the argument.
In order to correctly evaluate the argument, necessary evidences are required to support each cause.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 374 350
No. of Characters: 1908 1500
No. of Different Words: 162 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.398 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.102 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.845 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 147 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 117 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 78 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 53 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.933 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.586 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.867 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.364 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.659 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.1 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...towards Seatown, it fails to mention the necessary to support the claim. it assum...
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...on the necessary to support the claim. it assumes that the free tuition is the on...
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...hancing the morale among the faculty. The first major assumption is that, the ...
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...re then it can create a cogent case. For the free-tuition policy to work, it ...
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...ious for the universitys economy. If it would have given that the investment income of the colle...
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...the argument would have stood valid. Additionally, it is also assumed that th...
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...y factor attracting the new professors. it may be plausible that other features of...
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...e affecting factors in this case. If it would have provided evidence that the professors are only a...
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...versities are same on other aspects. lastly, it is stated that given this pol...
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...t is stated that given this policy, the professors morale will be enhanced. To justify thi...
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...would seriously weaken the argument. In order to correctly evaluate the argum...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, first, however, if, lastly, may, so, then, thus, while, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 28.8173652695 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1959.0 2260.96107784 87% => OK
No of words: 374.0 441.139720559 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23796791444 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3976220399 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92479639072 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 204.123752495 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.449197860963 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 630.0 705.55239521 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.0882257012 57.8364921388 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.235294118 119.503703932 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.0 23.324526521 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.88235294118 5.70786347227 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 12.0 5.25449101796 228% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.187870908155 0.218282227539 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.06865201865 0.0743258471296 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.042988924684 0.0701772020484 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0994475823311 0.128457276422 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0486544410217 0.0628817314937 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.3550499002 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 98.500998004 93% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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