While the Department of Education in the state of Attra recommends that high school students be assigned homework every day, the data from a recent statewide survey of high school math and science teachers give us reason to question the usefulness of daily homework. In the district of Sanlee, 86 percent of the teachers reported assigning homework three to five times a week, whereas in the district of Marlee, less than 25 percent of the teachers reported assigning homework three to five times a week. Yet the students in Marlee earn better grades overall and are less likely to be required to repeat a year of school than are the students in Sanlee. Therefore, all teachers in our high schools should assign homework no more than twice a week.
The writer has tried to pursue teachers of the high school to give homework only twice per week by sharing the survey data of two districts; sanlee and marlee. However, the content is not cogent enough since it rife with holes.
The letter reports that math and science teachers of sanlee assign homework to student on daily basis, whereas in marlee the home assignments are assigned only twice or thrice a week. now the question that come to reader’s mind is what sort of tasks are instructed to the children to be completed at home. it could be that at sanlee, the students are advised to read the chapter taught in class to develop better understanding of the concept, whereas marlee students are required to do tedious copy paste of questions and answers and draw difficult diagrams. if the case is similar to this, then sanlee students are involved in more productive work than that of marlee. And this will on contradict the author’s presumption that students of marlee are focusing more on individual work. Plus, there could be possibility that students of marlee might be getting homework from than other subject teachers on daily basis, whereas in sanlee this might not be the case. this way the total time spent on homework in Sarlee would be less than marlee.
Subsequently, the writer has claimed marlee students are doing better in academics than sanlee. now, first we need to understand if the quality of education is same at two places. it could be at sanlee, syllabus could be more extensive and therefore it would be difficult for an average student to score well. The author should have shared results of some standardized test to his strength his view. Also, we need to understand at which subjects the students are doing well and at which are they lacking. it could be the marlee students might be better at languages and this is where the student body of sanlee are lacking. this will overrule the argument since the entire discussion is focusing on math and science.
it might be that the student of marlee would be getting less homework from their math and science teachers than sanlee. But, until the entire situation of both cities are taken into account, no conclusion could be reached by high school regarding homework assignment practice.
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Essay evaluation 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: 11 15
No. of Words: 389 350
No. of Characters: 1843 1500
No. of Different Words: 180 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.441 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.738 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.383 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 135 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 93 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 61 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 27 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 35.364 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 21.689 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.636 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.401 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.631 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.127 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
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...owever, the content is not cogent enough since it rife with holes. The letter ...
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...e assigned only twice or thrice a week. now the question that come to reader's...
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...o the children to be completed at home. it could be that at sanlee, the students a...
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Suggestion: If
...nd answers and draw difficult diagrams. if the case is similar to this, then sanle...
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...s in sanlee this might not be the case. this way the total time spent on homework in...
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... doing better in academics than sanlee. now, first we need to understand if the qua...
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...ity of education is same at two places. it could be at sanlee, syllabus could be m...
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...ing well and at which are they lacking. it could be the marlee students might be b...
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...the student body of sanlee are lacking. this will overrule the argument since the en...
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...ion is focusing on math and science. it might be that the student of marlee wou...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, regarding, so, then, therefore, well, whereas, sort of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.6327345309 158% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 55.5748502994 103% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1897.0 2260.96107784 84% => OK
No of words: 389.0 441.139720559 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.8766066838 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44106776838 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49253151854 2.78398813304 90% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 204.123752495 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.485861182519 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 569.7 705.55239521 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.4861262879 57.8364921388 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.388888889 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6111111111 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.72222222222 5.70786347227 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 10.0 5.25449101796 190% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => 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: 0.232387898842 0.218282227539 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0759256775522 0.0743258471296 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0677392523294 0.0701772020484 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.170362953674 0.128457276422 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0605289460301 0.0628817314937 96% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 14.3799401198 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.02 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.6 8.32208582834 91% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 98.500998004 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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