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.
According to the prompt, a letter from the faculty committee to the president of Seatown University asserts that Seatown should provide policy that makes tuition free for college-aged children of professors as it would increase faculty retention and additionally lure new professors. However, before this asserting can be validated answers of three unstated assumptions are required.
Firstly, prompt assumes that providing free higher education to college-aged children of professors was the main reason behind higher faculty retention is Oceania University. However, it can be the case that provisions like free tuition was just tip of the ice berg among all the facilities and benefits offered along with it - which professors value more than just a provision of free tuition. Perhaps, it can be the case that Oceania University has better research facilities where professor can do their individual research and no such facilities are available in Seatown University. Additionally, it can be the case that location of Oceania and lures professors to stay longer. If any of these assumptions come true, then saying that free-tuition of college-aged children of professors will augment their retention is significantly wrong.
Secondly, prompt assumes that provisions that attract professors of Oceania University will remain same for Seatown University or in other words prompt assumes that factors that influence retention in both university are comparable. Perhaps, it can be the case that professors in SEatown University are young and most of them do not have children in college age group than slightly older age group of professors of Oceania University and have children who are about to enter college environment and take amass of professors savings for admission to raft of programs offered in universities. Moreover, it can be the case that Seatown University is present in a secluded area and professor spend lot of time to reach university and thus provision like accomodation on campus can be better way to lure and retain professors than free tuition one. If such is the case, then claim made in the prompt doesn't hold water.
In conclusion, the argument as it stands now is considerably flawed due to its reliance on several unstated assumptions. IF answers to above unstated assumptions are provided and perhaps a study is conducted to analyze their validity, then the claim made in the argument can be properly evaluated.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 387 350
No. of Characters: 2025 1500
No. of Different Words: 183 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.435 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.233 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.868 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 154 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 132 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 90 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 65 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 29.769 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.051 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.692 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.409 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.606 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.123 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 730, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...pend lot of time to reach university and thus provision like accomodation on camp...
^^
Line 5, column 897, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...the case, then claim made in the prompt doesnt hold water. In conclusion, the argum...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, thus, in conclusion, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 55.5748502994 88% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2064.0 2260.96107784 91% => OK
No of words: 386.0 441.139720559 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.34715025907 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43248042346 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9367263265 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 204.123752495 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.479274611399 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 657.9 705.55239521 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 29.0 22.8473053892 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 79.1108128517 57.8364921388 137% => OK
Chars per sentence: 158.769230769 119.503703932 133% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.6923076923 23.324526521 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.84615384615 5.70786347227 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => 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: 0.314770208617 0.218282227539 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.113173334625 0.0743258471296 152% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.100846073767 0.0701772020484 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.193927742277 0.128457276422 151% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.100732038847 0.0628817314937 160% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.6 14.3799401198 129% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.58 48.3550499002 69% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 12.197005988 130% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.34 12.5979740519 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.43 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 98.500998004 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.1389221557 122% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => 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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