The following appeared in a letter from the faculty committee to the president of Seatown University:
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.
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.
Author of the letter is a faculty committee member and letter is written to the president of Seatown university. Author mentions a study conducted at nearby Oceania university which concludes that faculty retention is higher when professors are offered free tuition fee for their college going children. Author suggests that similar kind of policy should be adopted for Seatown university which would help to retain the professors and new professors can be lured to the university with such a policy. The suggestion provided by author lacks sufficient data to establish the claim and hence is not con...
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