Several charitable organizations in Pleasantville provide opportunities for teenagers to engage in community service. These organizations have a great need for volunteers, but in recent years, the number of teenage volunteers has significantly declined.
The Pleasantville School Board should take measures to increase the number of volunteers. Teachers, parents, and other community members agree that it is important for young people to learn the value of community service. Requiring high school students to engage in community service would provide much needed assistance to worthy local charities and would also help young people understand the importance of giving back to their community. For this reason, the Pleasantville School Board should institute a program requiring students of Pleasantville High School to complete 40 hours of community service prior to graduation.
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 the assumptions and what the implications are if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The argument states that the Pleasantville School Board should make community service a requirement for all students prior to graduation to both address the declining number of teenage volunteers in charitable organizations and to teach the value of community service to students. While, at first, this may seem to be a highly logical idea, there are some ill-defined concepts and unstated assumptions of the argument that are not fully addressed, and therefore make the argument flawed.
First, the claim states that "it is important for young people to learn the value of community service" and "importance of giving back to their community." Why community service is so important is never defined. Is there a significant reason why this should be taught to students? For the Pleasantville School Board to be able to utilize more resources and change entire school policies, the need and the value of "community service" must be explicit to the board and the people involved.
Second, there should be some research done to study the results of a policy change like this in relation to the students involved. The argument assumes that everyone involved will abide by the new policy easily .During this time period, high school, students' behavior are especially more erratic and irrational. Just because the school board makes it a requirement does not mean that students will follow accordingly. In fact, it is highly likely that students will see the 40 hours of community service as more of chore than important lesson in values. Thus, contradicting the whole reason on making this policy in the first place. A study with empirical data would be a useful way to ensure positive results of the policy change before actually moving forward with it.
Because of these few flaws, the suggestion to make community service a requirement for High School graduation is not reasonable until further research is done.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, actually, first, if, may, second, so, therefore, thus, while, in fact, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1632.0 2260.96107784 72% => OK
No of words: 312.0 441.139720559 71% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23076923077 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.20279927342 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92427859915 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 204.123752495 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.509615384615 0.468620217663 109% => OK
syllable_count: 516.6 705.55239521 73% => 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
Interrogative: 1.0 0.471057884232 212% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 19.7664670659 61% => 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: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.5568842616 57.8364921388 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.0 119.503703932 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0 23.324526521 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.5 5.70786347227 149% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.116961543018 0.218282227539 54% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0426534194979 0.0743258471296 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.067434476587 0.0701772020484 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0860042673182 0.128457276422 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0558303060257 0.0628817314937 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 14.3799401198 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 48.3550499002 76% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.197005988 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.35 12.5979740519 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.22 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 98.500998004 66% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 20.5 12.3882235529 165% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.