Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? "Universities should give the same amount
of money to their students’ sports activities as they give to their university libraries. Use specific
reasons and examples to support your opinion."
Funding for athletic programs at colleges and universities is a very controversial issue these days. Some
people believe that universities should fund libraries and educational facilities rather than sports teams,
while others feel that the opposite is true. I am of the belief that universities should provide more funding
for athletics. I feel this way for two reasons, which I will explore in the following essay.
To begin with, most universities offer identical academic programs, and are only able to set
themselves apart from the crowd through the popularity of their sports teams. These days there are
hundreds of universities across the United States which are almost entirely interchangeable. Only a very
select few Ivy League schools are known to be better than average. It may seem somewhat arbitrary, but a
sports team can help such middling schools stand out from the crowd and attract new students. For
example, my cousin is a very average student. When he graduated from high school a few years ago, he
chose to attend California State College based solely on the fact that he loves basketball and that school is
known for its on-court success. This may seem superficial, but it mattered a lot to him, and according to
recent surveys he is not the only student who chose to attend for this reason. The college earned his
loyalty as a result of the care and attention it has paid to its athletic program.
Furthermore, sports are very profitable and are a good source of revenue in today’s precarious
economic times. Schools across the nation are facing a funding crisis, but they still need to build facilities
and dormitories for new students. University sports are a huge business in America, and are even more
popular than professional sports in a lot of areas. These teams can generate money for their schools
through corporate sponsorships, ticket sales, licensing and broadcast agreements. These profits can then
be used to pay for academic facilities, including libraries. This type of operation does not always seem the
most idealistic thing for a university to do, but it certainly is a pragmatic solution to some of the problems
that schools face today.
In conclusion, I strongly believe that colleges should provide more funding to their sports teams than
they do to their academic facilities. This is because sports help universities stand out in a crowded market
of schools, and because the profits they generate can be used to fund other programs.
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Suggestion: some
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 15.1003584229 126% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 13.8261648746 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.0286738351 100% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 43.0788530466 95% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 52.1666666667 84% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 8.0752688172 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2118.0 1977.66487455 107% => OK
No of words: 411.0 407.700716846 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.15328467153 4.8611393121 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50256981431 4.48103885553 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7765320642 2.67179642975 104% => OK
Unique words: 217.0 212.727598566 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.52798053528 0.524837075471 101% => OK
syllable_count: 648.0 618.680645161 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 9.59856630824 156% => OK
Article: 1.0 3.08781362007 32% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 9.0 1.86738351254 482% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.94265232975 81% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.2843309985 48.9658058833 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.9 100.406767564 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.55 20.6045352989 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.6 5.45110844103 103% => OK
Paragraphs: 25.0 4.53405017921 551% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.5376344086 18% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 3.85842293907 52% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.88709677419 82% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.175723557809 0.236089414692 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.054698065113 0.076458572812 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0429378905617 0.0737576698707 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0491756508137 0.150856017488 33% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.043282710896 0.0645574589148 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 11.7677419355 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 10.9000537634 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.24 8.01818996416 103% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 86.8835125448 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 10.002688172 90% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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