The following appeared as part of the Dean s newsletter The University of Wabash is considering a community service requirement for all undergraduate and graduate students We believe that the objective of any university is to produce well rounded and char | TOEFL IELTS GMAT GRE SAT ACT PTE ESL

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The following appeared as part of the Dean’s newsletter:

"The University of Wabash is considering a community service requirement for all undergraduate and graduate students. We believe that the objective of any university is to produce well-rounded and charitable members of society. The proposed graduation requirement would be to complete at least 8 hours of unpaid community service per month for a total of 9 months. The Dean’s office will maintain a list of approved local charities on its website with contact information. This is a fantastic opportunity for students to give back to the community and gain real-world working experience. Most importantly, local charities in need will receive the help that they need to continue their efforts."

Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.

The newsletter published by the Dean is about the graduates and undergraduate students of University Wabash being included in charity work for charitable organisations in that particular locality. There are many logical fallacies and unwarrented assumptions in the above mentioned prompt upon which I will be shedding light.
Firstly, they say the students are allowed only to help local charities that are approved by the Dean's office. On what basis do they select these local charities? It has to be selected based on if man power is even required, what kind of charity it is, and what kind of help is required. For example, some charities just require volunteers or interns for fundraising, which does not require as much man power and is not time consuming, and might not even need 8 hours. Then wil the work done by students still count, although it does not meet the time criteria as mentioned by the Dean?
Fundraising is one of the tasks that does not need any kind of training for the students and is a meaningful way for helping the charitable organisations. Fundraising is not a byzantine task which requires toilsome work. So, the list of local charities/ organisations should be clearly given, along with their mission, purpose and what they expect from the students.
Secondly, what if students were to help or work in some other organisation as a volunteer of their choice? Why should it have to be through the University? The students should be free to choose the organisation they want to help or volunteer in and should not be coereced by the University. Some students may have some personal attachement or a reason to choose a charity in which case they would work even harder to get a win. For examle, a student who has lost one of his or her gradparents to cancer, so he or she might want to help cancer patients by helping them physically and emotionally. In this case the student should be free to do so.
Thirdly, they have said that it is the only way to give back to the society, which is a fallacy as there are many other ways to give back to the society as well. For example, discovering a cure for a gruesome disease which would help the patients who are suffering with that particular disease.
In conclusion, the argument is based on many unwarrented assumptions and does not hold together when examined in detail. The argument needs to be more concrete and with less loopholes so that it doesnot fall apart when ramified. To recapitulate, the University's community service requirement or program needs a lot more organising and details to bridge the gaps.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 169, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun loopholes is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...ment needs to be more concrete and with less loopholes so that it doesnot fall apart...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, then, third, thirdly, well, as to, for example, in conclusion, kind of

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 11.1786427146 170% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2145.0 2260.96107784 95% => OK
No of words: 448.0 441.139720559 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.78794642857 5.12650576532 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60065326758 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78724399249 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 213.0 204.123752495 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.475446428571 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 675.0 705.55239521 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.4015558399 57.8364921388 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.142857143 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3333333333 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.90476190476 5.70786347227 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.152360044077 0.218282227539 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.050743595921 0.0743258471296 68% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0617341083561 0.0701772020484 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0868234753576 0.128457276422 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0425577323376 0.0628817314937 68% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.8 14.3799401198 82% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.5 12.5979740519 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.99 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 98.500998004 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, then, third, thirdly, well, as to, for example, in conclusion, kind of

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments