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 service will both help to attract new students and lessen the university budget’s shortage. In fact, the memorandum does not provide powerful reasons to be certain about this.
Since Humana University has faced budget struggles while spending more money on maintaining its buildings, the initiation of online courses is supposed to reduce the deficit. Even though, it is hazy how exactly the beginning of online programs will influence this problem in a beneficial way. Possibly, most of the university’s money is spent on other needs rather than primarily on maintaining its buildings. For example, the university staff is redundant. In this way, the more profitable measures will be the reduction of office workers. As well, the point about how much money the university must invest into launching online programs can undermine the idea that online courses will save university’s money. For instance, to start these courses the university needs to have modern computers, the good Internet access as well as enough IT staff to avoid technical problems. If the university does not have these human and technical resources currently, it has to spend the great amount of money before promoting online programs.
One of the key ideas why the Humana University intend to start up online degree programs is because this way it has the desire to attract more students. Since the number of students applying for this university has decreased for several years, the university looking at the experience of Omni University assumes that online programs will make it. Although, some arguments can weaken this conclusion. For example, the number of students will not increase, because students are interested in neither campus nor online programs of this university. Maybe Humana University is low-ranked and provides the low quality of education; therefore, students prefer applying for other universities. That is why launching online programs will not turn this situation around.
Even if Humana University is famous for its good education; the idea of promoting 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. 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, so, therefore, well, while, as to, for example, for instance, in fact, 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 : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 55.5748502994 97% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2420.0 2260.96107784 107% => OK
No of words: 452.0 441.139720559 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.35398230088 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61088837703 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.80856361917 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 204.123752495 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.462389380531 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 771.3 705.55239521 109% => 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: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 2.70958083832 332% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.516525857 57.8364921388 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.0 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5454545455 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.72727272727 5.70786347227 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => 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: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.233222661666 0.218282227539 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0831993015707 0.0743258471296 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.067887677824 0.0701772020484 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.155317005621 0.128457276422 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0815024349445 0.0628817314937 130% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.3550499002 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.75 12.5979740519 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 98.500998004 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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