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 given suggestion from the faculty committee to the president of Seatown University is heavily flawed. Specific evidence is needed to evaluate the given suggestion.
Firstly, it is imperative to know what is the composition of professors at Ocenia University as well as Seatown University. The following questions will help us evaluate the argument better- how big/small are both universities? What is the student to professor ratio in both universities? Maybe the professors at Seatown University have multiple classes scheduled causing increased workload and hence the employee retention is low. Maybe Oceania University has fewer students per batch so the professors are more comfortable with the syllabi as well as setting tests for students.
Secondly, further information is required about the salary given to tenured and non-tenured professors at both universities. What perks are enjoyed by the faculty should be also taken into consideration before reaching a conclusion. Maybe the morale of professors can be increased by giving monetary incentives in the pay package. Perks can also be modified such as giving free food coupons or increasing the number of paid leaves annually to boost morale.
Thirdly, we need to know how many professors have children in the college-going age bracket. Moreover, we need to know whether the courses being opted by these children are being offered by Seatown University or not. Along with these, what will be the terms and conditions of the free-tuition of policy will also need to be stated out to the professors of Seatown University so that questions like - for how many years will the policy be valid or for how many children can the policy be availed can be planned for well in advance.
The above factors will helpful in evaluating if a free-tuition policy for the children of Seatown University professors will be useful or not.
Comments
e-rater score 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: 304 350
No. of Characters: 1553 1500
No. of Different Words: 152 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.176 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.109 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.843 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 116 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 97 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 66 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.267 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.909 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.336 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.609 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.128 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, hence, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, well, such as, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 1.0 13.6137724551 7% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 7.0 28.8173652695 24% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 55.5748502994 70% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1592.0 2260.96107784 70% => OK
No of words: 303.0 441.139720559 69% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.25412541254 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92655953169 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 204.123752495 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.511551155116 0.468620217663 109% => OK
syllable_count: 508.5 705.55239521 72% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.4832325169 57.8364921388 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.133333333 119.503703932 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2 23.324526521 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.4 5.70786347227 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 6.88822355289 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.293141963969 0.218282227539 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.112561813949 0.0743258471296 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0847127029248 0.0701772020484 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.176843617348 0.128457276422 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0783859766717 0.0628817314937 125% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.3799401198 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.3550499002 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.17 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.8 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 80.0 98.500998004 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 12.3882235529 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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