The following appeared in a memorandum from a dean at Omega University.
"Fifteen years ago, Omega University implemented a new procedure that encouraged students to evaluate the teaching effectiveness of all their professors. Since that time, Omega professors have begun to assign higher grades in their classes, and overall student grade averages at Omega have risen by thirty percent. Potential employers apparently believe the grades at Omega are inflated; this would explain why Omega graduates have not been as successful at getting jobs as have graduates from nearby Alpha University. To enable its graduates to secure better jobs, Omega University should now terminate student evaluation of professors."
Firstly, since the new procedure for evaluating professors by their students was started 15 years ago and the overall student grade averages have risen to 30 percent and plateaued at this value, it is unclear if there is actually a strong positive correlation between the two as the as the author claims. If it was indeed true, these grades should have risen steadily from year to year. Further, data should also be available to strengthen the argument that all the professors started assigning higher grades to their students. A professor, who is already efficient enough would not succumb to such p...
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Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- OK
argument 4 -- OK
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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: 20 15
No. of Words: 502 350
No. of Characters: 2601 1500
No. of Different Words: 253 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.733 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.181 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.776 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 210 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 159 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 112 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 79 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.1 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.823 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.75 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.288 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.474 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.095 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 277, Rule ID: PHRASE_REPETITION[1]
Message: This phrase is duplicated. You should probably leave only 'as the'.
Suggestion: as the
...ng positive correlation between the two as the as the author claims. If it was indeed true, t...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 857, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ame liberal, then that would weaken the authors argument further. And the author gives ...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 590, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'candidates'' or 'candidate's'?
Suggestion: candidates'; candidate's
...f the grade averages, but also from the candidates performance in the interview, group dis...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, moreover, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, while, for example, as a result, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 55.5748502994 101% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2680.0 2260.96107784 119% => OK
No of words: 501.0 441.139720559 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.34930139721 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73107062784 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9073397144 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 265.0 204.123752495 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.528942115768 0.468620217663 113% => OK
syllable_count: 837.0 705.55239521 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 2.70958083832 332% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.0934376673 57.8364921388 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.0 119.503703932 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.05 23.324526521 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.95 5.70786347227 139% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.13397164558 0.218282227539 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0391463799684 0.0743258471296 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0405392370979 0.0701772020484 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0727787507567 0.128457276422 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0426126840006 0.0628817314937 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 14.3799401198 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 48.3550499002 78% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.197005988 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.05 12.5979740519 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.41 8.32208582834 113% => OK
difficult_words: 144.0 98.500998004 146% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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