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.
The passage states that the faculty committee of a University wants to adopt a policy based on a study which believes in providing free education to the children of the professors studying in that university in order to lure more new professors and enhance their morale.
The claim that the professor's own children should receive free education seems reasonable. The professor will teach all his students with even more interest especially if his own child is in the same classroom. This way, not only the professor's child will benefit but also the other students in the classroom. So such a measure could have multiple positive effects to the university. Also, in terms of finance, it's not like it would be a major loss to the university by providing financial support to just one student.
In gainsay, providing free education to each and every professor's children could be misconstrued as partiality among other students. This could affect the University's reputation. Although extremely unlikely, it could negatively affect the number of students joining the campus.
Also, according to this study, more professors have joined the campus based on the assumption that they are joining because their children are getting free education. It is possible that more professor's are joining that university because the salary for the job of a professor was greatly increased in that university. In this case, it would be better to increase the salary of the professors to get better results.
However, if the study is accurate, then providing free education to the children of the professors seems reasonable and feasible.
Hence, since the advantages of taking such a step outweigh the disadvantages, providing free education to the children of the professors in order to boost their morale and lure more professors seems practical and is likely to provide with good results.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 303 350
No. of Characters: 1544 1500
No. of Different Words: 144 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.172 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.096 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.752 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 110 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 93 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 71 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 49 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.643 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.438 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.374 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.659 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.139 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 92, 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.
...eceive free education seems reasonable. The professor will teach all his students w...
^^^
Line 5, column 235, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'professors'' or 'professor's'?
Suggestion: professors'; professor's
... same classroom. This way, not only the professors child will benefit but also the other s...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, so, then
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 55.5748502994 74% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1594.0 2260.96107784 71% => OK
No of words: 303.0 441.139720559 69% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26072607261 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80444949834 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 145.0 204.123752495 71% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.478547854785 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 500.4 705.55239521 71% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.6884398769 57.8364921388 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.857142857 119.503703932 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6428571429 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.78571428571 5.70786347227 49% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.163586131294 0.218282227539 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0636355203547 0.0743258471296 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0579396352069 0.0701772020484 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0987076764508 0.128457276422 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0595719267739 0.0628817314937 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.3799401198 99% => 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: 13.23 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.12 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 98.500998004 67% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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