In this argument, the author recommends assigning homework no more than twice a week. Although this suggestion might be beneficial for students’ performance, some unsubstantiated assumptions which, if proven unwarranted, will surely weaken the argument.
To start with, the writer’s recommendation relies heavily on the assumption that the recent survey is statistically reliable. However, the author fails to indicate what group of teachers, and how many teachers the study had sampled or whether the sample is representative of the general. If only several teachers took part in the survey or only a small part of interviewers responded, the survey would be unreasonable. Because many teachers may actually assign homework everyday but they didn’t. participate in the survey.
Additionally, the author believes that less homework could improve the grades because students in Marlee do better than those in Sanlee. The underlying assumption is that the amount of homework is the key factor to gain a high score. But students in Marlee may have better learning skills. Even if they have less homework, they still could gain higher grades. In this case, the author’s suggestion is totally unconvincing because he/she attributes different performance to the different amount of homework.
Even though assumptions mentioned above are proven to be true, the argument might also be doubtful, because the author assumes that it is necessary for educators to reduce the amount of homework. It is possible that in his/her school, students are so eager to learn that they can live a better life in the future. Or students need homework to help them review knowledge after school. In both cases, the recommendation would be unnecessary.
To sum up, aforementioned assumptions are all currently doubtful. The author needs to provide more information related to these assumptions to make the recommendation more persuasive.
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: 17 15
No. of Words: 300 350
No. of Characters: 1573 1500
No. of Different Words: 168 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.162 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.243 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.976 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 123 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 86 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 71 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.647 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.516 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.588 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.314 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.57 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.101 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 476, Rule ID: EVERYDAY_EVERY_DAY[3]
Message: 'Everyday' is an adjective. Did you mean 'every day'?
Suggestion: every day
...y teachers may actually assign homework everyday but they didn't. participate in th...
^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 507, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Participate
...homework everyday but they didn't. participate in the survey. Additionally, the aut...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, if, may, so, still, to start with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 55.5748502994 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1647.0 2260.96107784 73% => OK
No of words: 297.0 441.139720559 67% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.54545454545 5.12650576532 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15134772569 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.1666554791 2.78398813304 114% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 204.123752495 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.565656565657 0.468620217663 121% => OK
syllable_count: 507.6 705.55239521 72% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.70958083832 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 22.8473053892 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.2203111799 57.8364921388 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.5 119.503703932 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.5 23.324526521 71% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.11111111111 5.70786347227 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.187495175624 0.218282227539 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0599327754591 0.0743258471296 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0337291174223 0.0701772020484 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0952288226751 0.128457276422 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0511427230851 0.0628817314937 81% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 46.78 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.61 12.5979740519 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 98.500998004 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.1389221557 75% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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
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