The president of Grove College has recommended that the college abandon its century-old tradition of all-female education and begin admitting men. Pointing to other all-female colleges that experienced an increase in applications after adopting coeducation, the president argues that coeducation would lead to a significant increase in applications and enrollment. However, the director of the alumnae association opposes the plan. Arguing that all-female education is essential to the very identity of the college, the director cites annual surveys of incoming students in which these students say that the school's all-female status was the primary reason they selected Grove. The director also points to a survey of Grove alumnae in which a majority of respondents strongly favored keeping the college all female.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation 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 recommendation.
The author of the argument purportedly highlights that the grove college should abandon its old traditional system of all-female students in the college and start accepting men because coeducation will help the college to increase the number of enrollment. However, the premises upon which he puts his claim are fallacious. For the support of which some critical, yet ignored question need to be addressed.
The first assumption that lacks some semblance of truth and can be overtly impugned is that the director of alumnae opposed this proposal due to the fact that all female students system could save the identity of the college. However, it does not lend credence to the argument since a question that might arise is whether all female system could maintain the identity of the college. One point that should be considered is that the identity of a college is highly dependent on its teachers and their knowledge, not all female students. In fact, this factor heightens the identity of the college because myriads of students are looking for a high ranked college. It is also important to say that maybe the director opposed the plan because of some personal gain. For example, it is easier to control the college with all female students because the number of students is limited.
The author also asserts that based on a survey, students alleged that they prefer to enroll in all female college. Although it might seem tenable at a face, it has some defects since you can always ask this question whether all students prefer to attend the segregated school. One of the main, if not the only, problem with the premise is that the author does not clearly mention how many students responded to the survey. Maybe a few people agreed with all female college. Or perhaps a few percents of students participate in the survey, who knows? Alongside that, this survey could be reliable and accurate owing to the fact there is a possibility that the director colludes with female students.
Putting the two previous assumptions aside, there is still room for doubt. As set forth by the author the director cited to the survey that all Grove alumnae agree with all female system based on their responses. Nevertheless, the rationale behind this promise could be challenged owing to an unsettled question if this survey could be accurate and reliable enough. One point that should not go unnoticed is that a skeptical attitude should be taken toward this survey owing to the fact that it could have been done many years ago. Maybe now Grove alumnae have changed their ideas and agree with coeducation.
Having scrutinized all the premises, a logical conclusion that can be drawn is that there are a number of questions having been ignored by the author while the answer of which could add to the logic of each premise.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not OK
argument 2 -- not OK
argument 3 -- not OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 478 350
No. of Characters: 2296 1500
No. of Different Words: 210 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.676 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.803 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.389 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 174 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 125 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 77 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 33 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.762 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.029 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.524 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.333 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.532 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.106 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 171, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'students'' or 'student's'?
Suggestion: students'; student's
...roposal due to the fact that all female students system could save the identity of the c...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 76, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” 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.
...s aside, there is still room for doubt. As set forth by the author the director ci...
^^
Line 9, column 217, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...could add to the logic of each premise.
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, look, may, nevertheless, so, still, while, for example, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 23.0 13.6137724551 169% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 28.8173652695 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 54.0 55.5748502994 97% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2350.0 2260.96107784 104% => OK
No of words: 478.0 441.139720559 108% => OK
Chars per words: 4.91631799163 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67581127817 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46437476395 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 204.123752495 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.443514644351 0.468620217663 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 733.5 705.55239521 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.3243614903 57.8364921388 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.904761905 119.503703932 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.7619047619 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.2380952381 5.70786347227 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.23017159372 0.218282227539 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0759960278101 0.0743258471296 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.097563369067 0.0701772020484 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.140359837577 0.128457276422 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0935110501731 0.0628817314937 149% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.3799401198 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 98.500998004 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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