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 instruction in the online programs 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 along with our budget deficit. To address these problems, Humana University will begin immediately to create and actively promote online degree programs like those at Omni. We predict that instituting these online degree programs will help Humana both increase its total enrollment and solve its budget problems."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the prediction and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the prediction.
The memorandum sent by the President of Humana asserts the development and promotion of online programs since it would help Humana to increase its enrolment and reduce its costs as it happened with Omni during the last year. The prediction here, does not make a cogent case since it is rife with holes and assumptions. Therefore, before evaluating the prediction following three questions must be answered.
First of all, does Omni and Humana comparable? In other words, is it justified to use the facts of implementing online programs by Omni for comparison with Humana despite significant differe...
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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: 29 15
No. of Words: 681 350
No. of Characters: 3345 1500
No. of Different Words: 238 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.108 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.912 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.657 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 237 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 177 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 143 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 92 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.483 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.995 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.897 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.323 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.476 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.093 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 364, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Though” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...use of online programs, so will Humana. Though it may not be valid. For instance, it m...
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Line 5, column 415, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Though” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...ed to Omni for last three year as well. Though it may not be the case. For instance, i...
^^^^^^
Line 9, column 250, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this two' or 'these twos'?
Suggestion: this two; these twos
...ence, perhaps in the form of ranking of these two and student preferences among online or...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, look, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, third, well, whereas, while, for instance, in conclusion, first of all, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.6327345309 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 27.0 12.9520958084 208% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 24.0 11.1786427146 215% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 22.0 13.6137724551 162% => OK
Pronoun: 53.0 28.8173652695 184% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 87.0 55.5748502994 157% => OK
Nominalization: 34.0 16.3942115768 207% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3429.0 2260.96107784 152% => OK
No of words: 681.0 441.139720559 154% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.03524229075 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.10842213422 4.56307096286 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74087650551 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 250.0 204.123752495 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.367107195301 0.468620217663 78% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1090.8 705.55239521 155% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 4.96107784431 282% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 2.70958083832 295% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 19.7664670659 147% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.7438629383 57.8364921388 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.24137931 119.503703932 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4827586207 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.41379310345 5.70786347227 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 17.0 8.20758483034 207% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.30272053868 0.218282227539 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.092572203675 0.0743258471296 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0812850541264 0.0701772020484 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.183617972045 0.128457276422 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0780473892762 0.0628817314937 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.58 8.32208582834 91% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 98.500998004 123% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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