The following is an excerpt from a speech given to the School Board about a change to the curriculum:
"Because the future will be dominated by technology, we must make four years of computer programming mandatory for all high school students. If our students take these classes, they’ll all be able to get high-paying programming jobs and lead fulfilling lives because software engineers and data scientists have the best job prospects and salaries. Therefore, we must educate our students so they can secure these kinds of jobs. Even if they pursue other careers, programming will still benefit them, given that all industries are becoming more technological."
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.
The above prompt says that technology is an indispensible tool which has and is dominating the world. According to school board the students should be trained for the programming languages so that they can land much better jobs in later stages of their life. The prompt is riddled with many logical fallacies, on which I will be shedding light upon.
To begin with, the school is aiming on training the students only for programming. In technology, there is so much more other than programming, and programming is just one part of technology. In addition, not all students will be interested in coding and computers. Every student is unique and has different set of interests. For example, what if a student is interested in biology, and wants to become a medical professional, why would he or she need to lean coding which will be of no use to them in later stage of their career. Making programming class a mandatory, will just burden and suffocate the child who has a different interst, which is why coding class should not be made a mandatory. Other interests should equally be encouraged by the school board.
Secondly, in the prompt it says that all jobs require programming, which is certainly not true. There are many jobs which does not require programming at all. For example, the medical profession, a doctor or a nurse does not need to know programming to do well in their career. Anoher example is, an artist, he or she would not need to have a prolix understanding of coding to be successful in the art world.
Lastly, it is said that data scientists have great job prospects and get the best salaries. It might be true today, but after a period of time, say ten to fifteen tears later, it cannot be said or assured that data scientist job will still be the highest paid job or the hot job in the market. Future is unpredictable, and just because something is great today, it cannot be avered that it will be the same tomorrow. For example, today, the whole world is fighting against this noxious virus called COVID-19. No one knew two years back that such a thing would happen and all of us will be in lockdown. If someone said that a virus is going to attack the whole world, nobody would have believed it and everyone would have thought it is a hoax. But, the deadly disease did affect us all. And today, doctors, nurses are extremely essential than any other professional. Scientists are trying their best to find a pancea for this very diasease and is one of the top most jobs today in the market.
In conclusion, the argument above has many unwarrented assumptions and gaps. It falls apart when these fallacies are questioned. Hence, it cannot be said that future will be dominated by technology and coding classes should not be made a mandatory instead the students should be given an option in this case.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 128, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...es. It might be true today, but after a period of time, say ten to fifteen tears later, it can...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, hence, if, lastly, second, secondly, so, still, well, for example, in addition, in conclusion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 39.0 19.5258426966 200% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 26.0 12.4196629213 209% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 33.0505617978 109% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 58.6224719101 84% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 12.9106741573 15% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2331.0 2235.4752809 104% => OK
No of words: 500.0 442.535393258 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.662 5.05705443957 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72870804502 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62919835691 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 240.0 215.323595506 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.48 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 707.4 704.065955056 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.2370786517 128% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.7036990838 60.3974514979 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 89.6538461538 118.986275619 75% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.2307692308 23.4991977007 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.34615384615 5.21951772744 83% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.254351581677 0.243740707755 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0703580420375 0.0831039109588 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0632272589933 0.0758088955206 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.154494603139 0.150359130593 103% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0556691325088 0.0667264976115 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.1 14.1392134831 71% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 69.11 48.8420337079 141% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.3 12.1743820225 68% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.75 12.1639044944 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.64 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 100.480337079 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => 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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