TPO-29 - Independent Writing Task Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? To improve the quality of education, universities should spend money on salaries university professors. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Recently, general awareness about whether it is wise to spend money on salaries university professors has aroused heated arguments. People, nevertheless, have conflicting ideas; while some people say that investing in professors is not a wise choice, others deem otherwise. From my own point of view, I am in agreement with the former stand.

To begin with, spending more on professor's salaries means that students have to pay increased school expenses. Especially, due to the recent economic crisis and high unemployment rate, both students and parents find it hard to afford their tuition fees. Students depend on students loans and even private loans which becomes a huge burden after graduation. Also, in order to manage their budget, students have to participate more in part-time jobs or might even have to leave in absence to prepare for their school expenses. This will definitely disturb student's studying. In retrospect, during my second year of university, the tuition fees suddenly increased. Because my parents were not in the situation to help me afford those increased expenses, I had to work in a part time job until late in the night which prevented my from studying. As a result, I got bad grades in the exams. Additionally, the increase of tuition fees will bring many oppositions among the students. For example, in my university, many students are participating in demonstrations in order to lower tuition fees. Often, they express violent behavior or have a radical debate with university executives. If universities spend more on their faculties, some will understand the benefits it brings and the increase in tuition fees. However, not all students could afford such high expenses. But look at numerous cases around us who give up their studies, juggle with their work and studies because of money and sometimes get private loans. Therefore, universities should not increase the professor's salaries since it will cause the increase in tuition.

Also, spending more money on increasing professors salaries and hiring more faculty does not essentially lead to high-quality education. In order to advance the quality of education, what is more important than hiring excellent faculty is to foster an environment that students could concentrate on their studies. In my case, I think professors influence in student's study in universities. University education is completely different from high school education. Students does not passively receive information but rather have to actively explore and understand the knowledge given. Lessons are just a single source of receiving information in universities since they only passed on limited information from books and other resources. Whether a professor is capable or not is decided by whether he could make students study. Therefore, to improve the quality of studies it is advisable to rather invest on other facilities such as libraries, labs and study rooms.

Votes
Average: 7 (1 vote)
Essay Categories

Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 72, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'salaries'' or 'salary's'?
Suggestion: salaries'; salary's
...ut whether it is wise to spend money on salaries university professors has aroused heate...
^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 771, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled with hyphen.
Suggestion: part-time
... increased expenses, I had to work in a part time job until late in the night which preve...
^^^^^^^^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, look, nevertheless, second, so, therefore, while, for example, i think, such as, as a result, to begin with, what is more

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 15.1003584229 73% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 9.8082437276 92% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 13.8261648746 108% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.0286738351 54% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 32.0 43.0788530466 74% => OK
Preposition: 72.0 52.1666666667 138% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 8.0752688172 260% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2487.0 1977.66487455 126% => OK
No of words: 463.0 407.700716846 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.37149028078 4.8611393121 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63868890866 4.48103885553 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89214977469 2.67179642975 108% => OK
Unique words: 247.0 212.727598566 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.533477321814 0.524837075471 102% => OK
syllable_count: 784.8 618.680645161 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 9.59856630824 63% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.86738351254 54% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.94265232975 182% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 20.6003584229 126% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 20.1344086022 84% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 37.7698574286 48.9658058833 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.6538461538 100.406767564 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8076923077 20.6045352989 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.57692307692 5.45110844103 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 4.53405017921 66% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 3.85842293907 233% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.88709677419 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.116581539535 0.236089414692 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0360315655333 0.076458572812 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0457034921056 0.0737576698707 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0897338425454 0.150856017488 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0163978947937 0.0645574589148 25% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 11.7677419355 109% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 58.1214874552 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.57 10.9000537634 124% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.57 8.01818996416 107% => OK
difficult_words: 120.0 86.8835125448 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.002688172 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.0537634409 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => OK
What are above readability scores?

---------------------
Minimum four paragraphs wanted.

Rates: 70.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 21.0 Out of 30
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.