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 director of the alumnae association repudiates the plan of converting all-female Grove College into a coeducation which was recommended by the president of the college. The director’s opposition was fortified by few surveys of the incoming students and the alumnae but these reasons are not enough to support his proposal. Seeing the alarming benefits and deeds coeducation provides to the society, the director needs strong claims and evidences and not just few vague surveys.
He cited that the surveys of the incoming students agreed to the fact that they chose Grove College because of being an all-female college. But how many of these students reported this statement, how many total incoming students were actually admitted, what were their reasons to favour an all-female college, etc. such questionnaires are important to conclude a rationality for them to favour the passé tradition.
The director says it is essential to keep Grove College all-female college, but he never gave any proper reasons to bolster his belief. To prove himself right, he could atleast provide the negatives and drawbacks of converting it into coeducation. The president gave his own reasons and threw light upon the benefits of converting into coeducation likewise if the director summons some of his belief of shunning the idea of the change, the report and his recommendation could have been considered.
A survey of the alumnae also was included stating that they favoured all-female college but none of the majority alumnae placated their reasons for rejecting the proposition of coeducation. The society outside the college is a mixture of male and female, we have to learn to coexist with a different sex, this the alumnae must have encountered and felt the need to have an early education of this practice but instead they encourage for no change to be brought in the old-traditions of Grove College, this is rather irrational and abstruse.
Hence, the report and the suggestion offered by the director in accordance to the hindrance towards a change seem vague and dubious. Strong reasons and facts are required to consider his opposition towards this change. Till then, overlooking and ignoring the fact of changing into coeducation mustn’t be encouraged.
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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: 13 15
No. of Words: 363 350
No. of Characters: 1864 1500
No. of Different Words: 179 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.365 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.135 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.775 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 143 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 123 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 80 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 47 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.923 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.839 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.615 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.384 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.659 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.179 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 398, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ude a rationality for them to favour the passé tradition. The director says it...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, hence, if, likewise, look, so, then, as for
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.9520958084 31% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 11.1786427146 170% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 13.6137724551 29% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1916.0 2260.96107784 85% => OK
No of words: 362.0 441.139720559 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.29281767956 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36191444098 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89031737986 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 204.123752495 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.494475138122 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 606.6 705.55239521 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => 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: 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: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.5866015817 57.8364921388 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.857142857 119.503703932 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.8571428571 23.324526521 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.57142857143 5.70786347227 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.199506305923 0.218282227539 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0724699584598 0.0743258471296 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0900037191761 0.0701772020484 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109749076477 0.128457276422 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.058962508459 0.0628817314937 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 14.3799401198 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 48.3550499002 78% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.197005988 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.7 12.5979740519 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.58 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 98.500998004 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 12.3882235529 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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