The following is part of a memorandum from the president of Humana University.
"Last year the number of students who enrolled in online degree programs offered by nearby Omni University increased by 50 percent. During the same year, Omni showed a significant decrease from prior years in expenditures for dormitory and classroom space, most likely because online instruction takes place via the Internet. In contrast, over the past three years, enrollment at Humana University has failed to grow and the cost of maintaining buildings has increased. Thus, to increase enrollment and solve the problem of budget deficits at Humana University, we should initiate and actively promote online degree programs like those at Omni."
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.
Based on the success of online programs at Omni University, the president of Humana University is planning to begin online degree programs as well. In his opinion, this campaign will both help to attract new students and reduce the deficit of the university budget. Although, there are not strong arguments which would show that this plan will play off.
Since Humana University has faced budget problems while spending more money on the supplement of its buildings, the initiation of online courses are supposed to shorten the deficit. Although, it stays unclear how exactly this step will help to solve this problem. Perhaps, most of the university’s money is spent on other needs rather than on maintaining its buildings. For example, there might be excess people in the stuff. In this way, the more helpful measures will be the reduction of workers. Moreover, the point about how much money the university should spend on launching online programs can undermine the idea that online courses will save university’s money. Thus, to start these courses the university needs to have computers, the good Internet access as well as enough IT stuff to avoid technical problems. That is why there is a high possibility that the university to find the great amount of money.
One of the key ideas why the Humana University tends to start online degree programs is because this way it wants to attract more students. Since the number of students applying for this university is decreased for several years, the university looking at the experience of Omni University assumes that online programs will work too. Although there are some arguments to provide, which can disrupt this position. For example, the number of students will not increase, because students are interested in neither campus programs nor online ones. Maybe Humana University is low-ranked and provides the low quality of education, that students prefer applying for other universities. That is why launching online programs will not turn this situation around.
Even if Humana University is good at providing education, their aim to promote such online programs as Omni does looks irrelevant. The main reason is that, perhaps, Omni University provides law courses which this university is famous for. This educational establishment might be specialized in this. On the other hand, Humana University may be incompetent in law programs. There is no point to adapt Omni’s programs, because it will not lead to success as well, because between these two online programs students will choose Omni’s courses over Humana’s ones.
To sum up, based on the provided arguments in this essay, there is no point is assuming that initiating online courses will help to reduce the budget deficit and attract new students.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
if, look, may, moreover, so, thus, well, while, for example, as well as, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 55.5748502994 97% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2361.0 2260.96107784 104% => OK
No of words: 449.0 441.139720559 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2583518931 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60321845022 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7292893929 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 204.123752495 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.465478841871 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 735.3 705.55239521 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.70958083832 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.198982958 57.8364921388 76% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.652173913 119.503703932 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5217391304 23.324526521 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.39130434783 5.70786347227 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
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: 0.218379119847 0.218282227539 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0734853617013 0.0743258471296 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0713802466526 0.0701772020484 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.142113221389 0.128457276422 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0758167185458 0.0628817314937 121% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.3799401198 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.95 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 98.500998004 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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