Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
"Fifteen years ago, Omega University implemented a new procedure that encouraged students to evaluate the teaching effectiveness of all their professors. Since that time, Omega professors have begun to assign higher grades in their classes, and overall student grade averages at Omega have risen by thirty percent. Potential employers apparently believe the grades at Omega are inflated; this would explain why Omega graduates have not been as successful at getting jobs as have graduates from nearby Alpha University. To enable its graduates to secure better jobs, Omega University should now terminate student evaluation of professors."
In evaluating the reason that graduates from omega university have not been as successful as graduates from nearby alpha university, the writer believes that the main culprit is the professor evaluation system., suggesting that it induces grade inflation and abase employers' trust in omega university graduates. however, such arguments is specious at most after a thorough investigation of the evidence substantiating it.
The main problem is that whether the procedure that encourages students to evaluate the professors do engender grade inflation. Granted, students will be in favor of those ...
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 442 350
No. of Characters: 2394 1500
No. of Different Words: 206 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.585 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.416 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.963 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 192 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 154 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 119 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 93 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 31.571 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.426 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.643 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.376 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.617 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.121 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 313, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: However
...rs trust in omega university graduates. however, such arguments is specious at most aft...
^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 237, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: However
... vividly as well as give decent grades. however, the systems do not necessarily encoura...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 70, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Such
...ainly induced by the evaluation system. such inflation does not necessarily lead to ...
^^^^
Line 10, column 62, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'graduates'' or 'graduate's'?
Suggestion: graduates'; graduate's
...we terminate the evaluation system, the graduates performance on the job market may not b...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 10, column 564, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...encourage professors class performance. if we hastily adopt that measure, the resu...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, furthermore, however, if, look, may, so, thus, well, while, as to, in conclusion, such as, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 32.0 16.3942115768 195% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2465.0 2260.96107784 109% => OK
No of words: 442.0 441.139720559 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.57692307692 5.12650576532 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58517132086 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04872711205 2.78398813304 110% => OK
Unique words: 221.0 204.123752495 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5 0.468620217663 107% => OK
syllable_count: 777.6 705.55239521 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 15.0 8.76447105788 171% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
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: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.795347691 57.8364921388 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.944444444 119.503703932 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5555555556 23.324526521 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.72222222222 5.70786347227 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.108271155142 0.218282227539 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0363664951608 0.0743258471296 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0351817718576 0.0701772020484 50% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0739026464148 0.128457276422 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0429688072742 0.0628817314937 68% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.1 14.3799401198 119% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 30.2 48.3550499002 62% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.197005988 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.38 12.5979740519 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.33 8.32208582834 112% => OK
difficult_words: 126.0 98.500998004 128% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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