A study conducted at nearby Oceania University showed that faculty retention is higher when professors are offered free tuition at the university for their own college-aged children. Therefore, Seatown should institute a free-tuition policy for its professors for the purpose of enhancing morale among the faculty and luring new professors.
A letter from faculty to the president of Seatown University asking for waiver of tuition fees for the students whose parents are professors at the university. As per the observation at Seatown University, when the tuition fees is waived off, it can boost faculty morale as well it can not only hold teaching interest, but also attract new professors. However, before taking this idea into consideration there are few below concerns which needs to be
answered.
Firstly, Does this study involves views of all staff who are teaching at the university? There is no evidence citing the number of professors agreeing with argument. And even if president decides to waive off the tuition fees for children of professor to retain them, will it not affect other professors whose children are not studying at the university? This act may belittle other professor thinking they are mot much valued at the university. If other professor do not have any objection for free tuition fees than waiving tuition fees may be considered.
There is no assurance that if the university cancels tuition fees , it will attract new professors. There may be situation where an extra-ordinary, erudite teacher's son received a scholarship from the state's most famous university. If that is the case it may not attract the teacher to join university. Furthermore, there are many students at the university, their parents work at other university as at other university they may earn surplus amount of money. Such professors may not think of joining Seatown university as they are earning sufficient money to pay tuition fees as well as happy with their work.
Furthermore, Teaching skills depends on person's interest rather than external factors. For instance, a professor has a monotonous life at university and decided to explore and take some new challenges in life. Will free tuition for the professor children retain the professor? Furthermore, the majority of professor are old and at the age of retirement with college aged children or there are young professor in the university. This scheme is not beneficial if there is less majority of professor with college-aged children.
In conclusion, if the above concerns are answered convincingly, then cancelling college fees might be taken into consideration.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 369 350
No. of Characters: 1882 1500
No. of Different Words: 181 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.383 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.1 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.781 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 136 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 118 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 83 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 54 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.421 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.556 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.842 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.341 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.558 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.119 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 232, Rule ID: WAIVED_OFF[1]
Message: Did you mean 'waved off'?
Suggestion: waved off
...wn University, when the tuition fees is waived off, it can boost faculty morale as well it...
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Line 1, column 451, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...are few below concerns which needs to be answered. Firstly, Does this study inv...
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Line 3, column 27, Rule ID: DOES_NP_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'involve'?
Suggestion: involve
... answered. Firstly, Does this study involves views of all staff who are teaching at ...
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Line 4, column 67, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...t if the university cancels tuition fees , it will attract new professors. There m...
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Line 4, column 157, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'teachers'' or 'teacher's'?
Suggestion: teachers'; teacher's
...uation where an extra-ordinary, erudite teachers son received a scholarship from the sta...
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Line 4, column 233, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” 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.
...from the states most famous university. If that is the case it may not attract the...
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Line 5, column 255, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... free tuition for the professor children retain the professor? Furthermore, the m...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, may, so, then, well, for instance, in conclusion, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1923.0 2260.96107784 85% => OK
No of words: 369.0 441.139720559 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.21138211382 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38284983912 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91049961949 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 184.0 204.123752495 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.49864498645 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 613.8 705.55239521 87% => 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: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
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: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 36.9709026862 57.8364921388 64% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.210526316 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4210526316 23.324526521 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.94736842105 5.70786347227 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.356098792443 0.218282227539 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.120778886743 0.0743258471296 162% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0968399051206 0.0701772020484 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.198461091594 0.128457276422 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0973733303132 0.0628817314937 155% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.3799401198 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.3550499002 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.04 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 98.500998004 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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