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 by the president and administrative staff that Grove College should remain an all female college lacks substantial information that could prove this claim.
Initially, it is proffered that a survey conducted by the student government indicated that the school shall remain all female. But, there is no statistical information provided on the gender of participants in the survey. Were there both males and females included in the survey? If only female students were allowed to participate in the study, there is a chance that they only sided with the female populace. This question raises serious objections on the survey conducted and the claim renders itself unjustified.
More so, the author presents the fact that in another survey half of the alumnae oppose coeducation. Was this survey conducted taking into account all of the past years’ alumnae or only a percentage was a part of it? Also, since they have passed out the college in an all female environment, they could be biased about it and want to carry on the tradition. In addition, there has been no data provided about the other half of the alumnae and their opinion. The failure to provide substantial information to prove this claim questions its veracity.
Lastly, the author posits that keeping the college all female will improve morale among students and extract funds from alumnae. However, there is a possibility that the alumnae actually providing financial support may be in favor of coeducation. In addition, there may be a large number of alumnae that initially supported Grove College and wanted to enroll their boys to Grove College, but would be unable to because of the all female tradition and that will eventually lead them to admit their sons in another college and all the funds from them would be directed to that college, leaving Grove College with even lesser funds and financial instability.
Therefore, on the basis of above mentioned fallacies, the claim that Grove college should preserve its tradition to admit only female students fails to make a cogent case and fails what it ought to prove.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not OK. it is for all female students.
argument 2 -- not OK
argument 3 -- OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 347 350
No. of Characters: 1726 1500
No. of Different Words: 168 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.316 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.974 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.564 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 126 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 88 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 54 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.133 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.827 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.34 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.585 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.086 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 148, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
...is survey conducted taking into account all of the past years' alumnae or only a perc...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 274, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
... coeducation. In addition, there may be a large number of alumnae that initially supported Grove ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, if, lastly, may, so, therefore, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1779.0 2260.96107784 79% => OK
No of words: 347.0 441.139720559 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.12680115274 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31600926901 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6680152005 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 171.0 204.123752495 84% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.492795389049 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 566.1 705.55239521 80% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 79.3413441334 57.8364921388 137% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.6 119.503703932 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1333333333 23.324526521 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.86666666667 5.70786347227 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.268919332213 0.218282227539 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0747111998376 0.0743258471296 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0884753376589 0.0701772020484 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.16183397847 0.128457276422 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.090557358438 0.0628817314937 144% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.3799401198 99% => 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: 12.77 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 98.500998004 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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