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.

Since the dawn of civilization, people have attached great value to education because it provides a platform for students to gain knowledge. Universities, the most prestigious institution in the educational system, never stop their pace to improve the quality of education, always be finding better ways to cultivate skillful labors for the society. Thus, some people argue that they should spend more money on professors' salaries. Personally speaking, I fundamentally agree with this view because money can motivate professors to focus on teaching and researching and can attract more excellent faculties.

To begin with, money is a strong motivation to keep professors concentrated on their job: teaching and researching. In this modern and materialism society, everyone is struggling to earn a living, be it a teacher, an engineer or a businessman. Compared to the past days, professors now are receiving relatively lower salaries and less respect due to the development of the public educational system, and sometimes they even need to take other jobs to support their family. However, only when not need to worry about surviving issues can professors put their hearts to teach students and conduct researches. For example, my university spends a small proportion of its expenditure on faculty's salary, and many of my professors run a business such as a software company to make more money. The professor of a language course that I have attended last year usually went to the school only twice a week to give us lectures, devoting most time and effort to organizing his business. As a result, in many cases, we needed to study on our own because he did not have the time to offer tutoring sessions.

Moreover, offering a competitive salary can help the university to attract excellent professors. We all know that in the job market, the company that can recruit most talented employees is the one that can provide the highest paycheck. Similarly, if a university wants to attract prominent faculties, it has to show them a lot of advantages, such as free accommodation, flexible working time, and of course, the most direct and appealing factor -- high salaries. In this way, professors with various interests of study fields are likely to come to the school, which forms a comprehensive faculty to allow the school to provide a range of courses in high quality. For instance, it is said that ETH pays its Ph.D. candidates up to 35 thousand of Euro a year, which is the reason why many graduates would like to choose ETH to pursue a further degree and even become a professor in the future. All these can lay a solid foundation for the development of ETH, making it one of the best universities in almost all fields in the world.

To sum up, although other factors such as campus environment, good facilities, and advanced research equipment also play important roles in promoting education quality, the core value of a university lies in its distinguishing professors. Therefore, considering the aforementioned ideas, I believe that it is necessary for colleges to spend money on faculties' salaries.

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Average: 9 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, moreover, similarly, so, therefore, thus, as to, for example, for instance, of course, such as, as a result, in many cases, to begin with, to sum up

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 15.1003584229 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 9.8082437276 112% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 13.8261648746 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.0286738351 91% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 43.0788530466 88% => OK
Preposition: 73.0 52.1666666667 140% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 8.0752688172 173% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2605.0 1977.66487455 132% => OK
No of words: 511.0 407.700716846 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.09784735812 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75450408675 4.48103885553 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97815059239 2.67179642975 111% => OK
Unique words: 293.0 212.727598566 138% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.573385518591 0.524837075471 109% => OK
syllable_count: 830.7 618.680645161 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 9.59856630824 73% => OK
Article: 6.0 3.08781362007 194% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.51792114695 114% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.86738351254 214% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.94265232975 142% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.6003584229 92% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 20.1344086022 129% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 47.5096141313 48.9658058833 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.105263158 100.406767564 137% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.8947368421 20.6045352989 131% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.78947368421 5.45110844103 161% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => 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: 3.0 4.88709677419 61% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.12543844777 0.236089414692 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0393198309269 0.076458572812 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0360726789364 0.0737576698707 49% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0782564416926 0.150856017488 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0134011970607 0.0645574589148 21% => 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: 16.0 11.7677419355 136% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 58.1214874552 78% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 10.1575268817 132% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.6 10.9000537634 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.91 8.01818996416 111% => OK
difficult_words: 129.0 86.8835125448 148% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 10.002688172 120% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.0537634409 123% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 10.247311828 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:

para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.

So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:

reasons == advantages or

reasons == disadvantages

for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.

or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.


Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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