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 recommendation being made by the president is that the college should adopt coeducation. His primary reasoning for this is the observation that other schools who have done so had an increase in applications. Although this may be a well-reasoned statement it is lacking important evidence needed to deem the recommendation as reasonable. Were the new applicants to these schools more qualified than the past ones or was the simply more applicants in numbers? If the people who applied to these schools only after abolishing all-female education were less prestigious candidates compared to those who applied before the transitions then this would be an unreasonable recommendation. The saying that more is not always equivalent to better is true in many cases, including this particular issue.
The next questions that should be surfaced is the number of females that said the primary reason for them attending this school was the all-female education. The statement is made that in past surveys they have recorded incoming students stating that this was the primary reason they came to the college, but nowhere does it say if the majority of incoming students felt this way. If only a few students had made this claim and the majority of them did not feel as if they would be affected by coeducation, the reasoning could very well stand behind the recommendation being carried through with.
Lastly, the question of the alumni opinions should be highly taken into consideration when debating this proposed transition. Are any of the alumni pro-coeducation? Will the others still donate and support the institution if the change is carried out? Keeping these alumni happy is very important because many schools depend on their support and donations. Finding where they all stand in detail can help determine is this recommendation is a reasonable one.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 300 350
No. of Characters: 1535 1500
No. of Different Words: 166 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.162 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.117 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.894 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 110 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 85 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 60 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 42 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.429 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.966 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.571 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.311 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.487 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.076 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 3 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 159, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...is school was the all-female education. The statement is made that in past surveys ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, lastly, may, so, still, then, well, in many cases
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 55.5748502994 50% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1563.0 2260.96107784 69% => OK
No of words: 300.0 441.139720559 68% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.21 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.16179145029 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96290210586 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 204.123752495 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.56 0.468620217663 119% => OK
syllable_count: 484.2 705.55239521 69% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 52.6790920071 57.8364921388 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.642857143 119.503703932 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4285714286 23.324526521 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.14285714286 5.70786347227 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 5.15768463074 58% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 6.88822355289 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.132857505287 0.218282227539 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0499671889459 0.0743258471296 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0617455751307 0.0701772020484 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0886121428662 0.128457276422 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0553227837502 0.0628817314937 88% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.3799401198 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 98.500998004 70% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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