The Pleasantville School Board should take measures to increase the number of volunteers. Teachers, parents, and other community members agree that it is important for young people to learn the value of community service. Requiring high school students to engage in community service would provide much-needed assistance to worthy local charities and would also help young people understand the importance of giving back to their community. For this reason, the Pleasantville School Board should institute a program requiring students of Pleasantville High School to complete 40 hours of community service prior to graduation.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on the assumptions and what the implications are if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The argument draws the conclusion that the Pleasantville School Board should institute a program requiring mandatory 40 hours of community service by students prior to their graduation is just based on the fact that the number of teenage volunteers has significantly declined in the recent years in several charitable organizations. The argument fails to consider various reasons for the evident decline in the number of students.
Firstly, students are always more inclined to work in an environment that is conducive and friendly. It is quite possible that these charitable organizations may not be sincerely involved in making charitable contributions to the community and instead would be making huge profits of their own or would be involved in various other malpractices. There seems to be a clear gap of information about this in the argument. A little clarity about this would help to draw a better conclusion from the same.
Some may debate that the decrease in the number of students has got to do nothing with the environment or the malpractices of the charitable organizations. Then, it is quite probable that the teens of the town would be looking at these organizations as the perfect model and have wished to start small groups of their own to make a difference to the community. The School Board must make a comprehensive research regarding the same and indeed help the students to come up with such group activities and provide them with resources to make their efforts reach the community. In fact, the School Board could organize competitions among schools of Pleasantville to see which school is successful in collecting the maximum charity. This would in a way inculcate team spirit and competitiveness among the teens along with the value of community service. If the School Board is successful in passing the 40 hours mandatory community service they would in a way prevent such small community service groups from blooming.
It is also quite possible that the students are overburdened with the academic and extra-curricular activities of the school because of the strict and lengthy syllabus laid down by the School Board and hence, they are not able to impart as much time to community service as before. The school board should make a proper survey about whether such a scenario arises or not and if it does take preventive measures which may include organizing events that would foster the value of community service among the teens. It is equally possible that the teens of the town are more inclined to academics or other activities, and hence it is also the responsibility of the parents along with the schools, to make them cognizant about the necessity of giving back to the community not only in terms of money but in terms of service as they knowingly or unknowingly get from the community. Lastly, the conclusion regarding the 40 hours mandatory community service is drawn on inadequate information and needs to be clear and detailed. For example, what duration of time should the 40 hour community service be completed, is it convenient or not to the students and what impact it would have on academic scores of teens. These are various other factors the School Board needs to consider before coming to a conclusion. Ultimately, a lot of research work is required before coming to a conclusion about what is good for the teens of the town and also establishing leniency and incentives to the teens to attract them to make a difference to the community by giving back what they get from the community.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'debates'.
Suggestion: debates
...r conclusion from the same. Some may debate that the decrease in the number of stud...
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Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...ng with the value of community service. If the School Board is successful in passi...
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Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'boards'.
Suggestion: boards
...community service as before. The school board should make a proper survey about wheth...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'firstly', 'hence', 'if', 'lastly', 'look', 'may', 'regarding', 'so', 'then', 'for example', 'in fact']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.24154589372 0.25644967241 94% => OK
Verbs: 0.148148148148 0.15541462614 95% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0885668276973 0.0836205057962 106% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0499194847021 0.0520304965353 96% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0305958132045 0.0272364105082 112% => OK
Prepositions: 0.136876006441 0.125424944231 109% => OK
Participles: 0.0402576489533 0.0416121511921 97% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.88768114686 2.79052419416 103% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0434782608696 0.026700313972 163% => OK
Particles: 0.00322061191626 0.001811407834 178% => OK
Determiners: 0.127214170692 0.113004496875 113% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0257648953301 0.0255425247493 101% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0128824476651 0.0127820249294 101% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3545.0 2731.13054187 130% => OK
No of words: 592.0 446.07635468 133% => OK
Chars per words: 5.98817567568 6.12365571057 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.93265142912 4.57801047555 108% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.342905405405 0.378187486979 91% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.266891891892 0.287650121315 93% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.201013513514 0.208842608468 96% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.140202702703 0.135150697306 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88768114686 2.79052419416 103% => OK
Unique words: 235.0 207.018472906 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.396959459459 0.469332199767 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 47.2244526267 52.1807786196 91% => OK
How many sentences: 19.0 20.039408867 95% => OK
Sentence length: 31.1578947368 23.2022227129 134% => OK
Sentence length SD: 83.877895688 57.7814097925 145% => OK
Chars per sentence: 186.578947368 141.986410481 131% => OK
Words per sentence: 31.1578947368 23.2022227129 134% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.736842105263 0.724660767414 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.14285714286 78% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 3.58251231527 84% => OK
Readability: 57.847083926 51.9672348444 111% => OK
Elegance: 1.83098591549 1.8405768891 99% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.605191768593 0.441005458295 137% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.158221878117 0.135418324435 117% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0646181121925 0.0829849096947 78% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.632037542853 0.58762219726 108% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.145211990616 0.147661913831 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.295671237577 0.193483328276 153% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0969044823329 0.0970749176394 100% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.509167189499 0.42659136922 119% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.175549127068 0.0774707102158 227% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.452796730425 0.312017818177 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.12053616319 0.0698173142475 173% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 8.33743842365 180% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.87684729064 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.82512315271 62% => OK
Positive topic words: 13.0 6.46551724138 201% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 5.36822660099 19% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.82389162562 106% => OK
Total topic words: 17.0 14.657635468 116% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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