The following recommendation was made by the president and administrative staff of Grove College, a private institution, to the college's governing committee."We recommend that Grove College preserve its century-old tradition of all-female education rather than admit men into its programs. It is true that a majority of faculty members voted in favor of coeducation, arguing that it would encourage more students to apply to Grove. But 80 percent of the students responding to a survey conducted by the student government wanted the school to remain all female, and over half of the alumnae who answered a separate survey also opposed coeducation. Keeping the college all female will improve morale among students and convince alumnae to keep supporting the college financially."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
According to the president of Grove College, the college should keep all female inorder to improve student's morale and attract alumnae to support the college financially. However, some information regarding the survey, the morale as well as financial support is required in order to evalute the argument.
To begin with, we need more evidence about the soundness of the survey with regard to the attitude of students in the college. According to the argument, about 80 percent of the students who responds to the survey hope the school to remain all female, but this might not reveal the thought of most students. Perhaps the student government only interviewed a few people, whose number is relative small compared with the total number of students in the college. If that is the case, the survey will not reflect the willingness of most people. Similarly, It is equally possible that the survey did not choose the students randomly. Under such circumstance, the students government might find students who dislike to share the campus with female students. Therefore, we need more information to rule out these possibilities in order to justify the argument.
Even if the survey about the students on campus can actually represent most students in the college, more information about students' morale is required so as to examine the validness of the argument. The president argues that student's morale will be improved if this school perform what students hope. This might not true, however, given the possibility that students are more likely to gain morale from other sources. For example, if many other colleges in this city also preserve their century-old tradition of all female education, this feature in Grove College will undoubtedly not let them feel the sense of identification, resulting in no improvement of morale. As a result, it is important for the college to find out whether remaining all-female will enhance morale among students before we conclude.
Finally, we still need more evidence about the survey regarding the alumnae. According to the president, over half of the alumnae oppose coeducation. But we need to know whether the alumnae who received the survey will have enough financial resources to support the college. It is possible that the students they interviewed have just graduated and entered workplace which means they are less likely to support the college these years with limited salary and they might change their idea after many years. If so, the college will not receive much support from alumane even if they decide to keep the school all female.
In conclusion, it is understandable that the presidents hope that the morale among students could improve and the college could receive more financial support, but further investigation mentioned above are supposed to be conducted in order to evaluate the soundness of the argument.<br>
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 466 350
No. of Characters: 2366 1500
No. of Different Words: 204 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.646 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.077 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.59 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 188 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 143 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 91 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 51 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.3 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.144 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.75 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.367 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.543 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.162 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 659, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
... randomly. Under such circumstance, the students government might find students who disl...
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Line 5, column 153, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...ation about students morale is required so as to examine the validness of the argument. ...
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Line 5, column 227, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...the argument. The president argues that students morale will be improved if this school ...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, finally, however, if, regarding, similarly, so, still, therefore, well, as to, for example, in conclusion, as a result, as well as, to begin with, with regard to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 55.5748502994 124% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2425.0 2260.96107784 107% => OK
No of words: 465.0 441.139720559 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.21505376344 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64369019777 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69640374057 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 204.123752495 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.445161290323 0.468620217663 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 770.4 705.55239521 109% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.0483419229 57.8364921388 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.25 119.503703932 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.25 23.324526521 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.1 5.70786347227 159% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => 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: 0.151480089311 0.218282227539 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0523502039115 0.0743258471296 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0750388501168 0.0701772020484 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103602523718 0.128457276422 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0538655370685 0.0628817314937 86% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 14.3799401198 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.3550499002 82% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 98.500998004 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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