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 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 recommendation made by the president and administrative staff of Grove College states that the institute shall not permit men into its programs in order to preserve its century-old tradition of all-female education. It also states that the governing committee shall undermine the voice of its faculty members which voted in favor of co-education and conform to students’ and alumnae interest to continue its all-female education policy.
The assertion and recommendation made by the president and administrative staff of the institute to the governing body is flawed. Primarily, students are transient, that is they are present at the institute for a tenure until the completion of their desired program. Whereas the faculty members are the ones who stay for a longer duration of time and are aware of what is beneficial for the institute in the long run. Thus, ignoring their viewpoint would seriously make them disinterested in thinking about the wellbeing of the institute in the future.
Secondly, there might be several reasons behind the student’s inclination to support all-female education which are not clearly stated. A simple survey cannot delve deeper into the feelings of the students as to why do they prefer all-female education and oppose coeducation. A general assembly or meeting can be called so that the students can easily voice out their opinions. Only then a wise decision can be made by the governing committee which would affect the future of Grove College.
Thirdly, the institute shall aim for improving the quality of their education, academic activities which would bring in attention and monetary support from other sources and shall not worry about funding from its alumnae.
In the end, it can be said that the entire recommendation is unwarranted in the light of above discussed points. Further discussions within the committees might help in making a wise decision which considers everyone’s point of view.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 6 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 310 350
No. of Characters: 1610 1500
No. of Different Words: 164 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.196 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.194 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.851 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 120 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 96 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 71 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 52 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.846 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.024 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.615 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.362 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.645 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.098 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, thus, well, whereas, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1653.0 2260.96107784 73% => OK
No of words: 310.0 441.139720559 70% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.33225806452 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.19604776685 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93399643279 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 204.123752495 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.535483870968 0.468620217663 114% => OK
syllable_count: 523.8 705.55239521 74% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.3449910391 57.8364921388 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.153846154 119.503703932 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.8461538462 23.324526521 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.84615384615 5.70786347227 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.305807372137 0.218282227539 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104968153313 0.0743258471296 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.138472630675 0.0701772020484 197% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.149817959987 0.128457276422 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.146397963731 0.0628817314937 233% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 14.3799401198 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.67 48.3550499002 82% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.93 12.5979740519 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.36 8.32208582834 112% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 98.500998004 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 12.3882235529 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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