The following appeared in a memo from the director of student housing at Buckingham College.
"To serve the housing needs of our students, Buckingham College should build a number of new dormitories. Buckingham's enrollment is growing and, based on current trends, will double over the next 50 years, thus making existing dormitory space inadequate. Moreover, the average rent for an apartment in our town has risen in recent years. Consequently, students will find it increasingly difficult to afford off-campus housing. Finally, attractive new dormitories would make prospective students more likely to enroll at Buckingham."
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.
It seems to be logical, at first glance, to agree with the idea that Buckingham College should construct more dormitories to absorb more students. However, there are couples of less credible evidence or even doubtful assumption to consolidate the argument's stance. In what follows, I will elaborate on them in details.
Citing the number of students who will be increasing over time in the Buckingham college, the argument averts that the college should raise its dormitory. Besides students’ numbers, Other factors impact on the increasing dormitory. The first factor is the students’ eager t...
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 24 15
No. of Words: 527 350
No. of Characters: 2697 1500
No. of Different Words: 210 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.791 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.118 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.774 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 198 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 163 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 115 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 78 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.958 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.903 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.583 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.333 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.52 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.142 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 248, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'arguments'' or 'argument's'?
Suggestion: arguments'; argument's
... doubtful assumption to consolidate the arguments stance. In what follows, I will elabora...
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Line 2, column 750, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'expanding'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'require' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: expanding
...or degree, the college does not require to expand its dormitories in the future. Even we...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 278, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...nts to use these type of housing. Maybe some of the students especially fresh or juniors ar...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 355, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'dormitories'' or 'dormitory's'?
Suggestion: dormitories'; dormitory's
... or juniors are not habituated with the dormitories milieu, and they want to go bedroom in ...
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Line 5, column 219, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'knowing'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'require' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: knowing
...ries. To better assess, we also require to know more other important factors besides pr...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, look, may, moreover, so, well, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 11.1786427146 179% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 80.0 55.5748502994 144% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2771.0 2260.96107784 123% => OK
No of words: 527.0 441.139720559 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25806451613 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.79129216042 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92728924439 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 221.0 204.123752495 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.41935483871 0.468620217663 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 888.3 705.55239521 126% => 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: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.22255489022 213% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.5120853991 57.8364921388 113% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.458333333 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.9583333333 23.324526521 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.95833333333 5.70786347227 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.20758483034 171% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
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: 0.194412772224 0.218282227539 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0616767331177 0.0743258471296 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0472527488523 0.0701772020484 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120311979026 0.128457276422 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0354646032674 0.0628817314937 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 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: 8.09 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 98.500998004 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 12.3882235529 57% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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