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.

How to spend university’s salaries has always been a controversial issue among scholars. Although some university administration staff argue as if it is a general truth that spending salaries in developing the structures of a university is much more important than expanding the salaries of professors, I strongly believe that there is nothing more important than expanding professor’s salaries to improving the quality of education. Among countless reasons which can vindicate my viewpoint, I will pinpoint the two most conspicuous ones through following paragraphs.

The first point that juts out of mind easily at the first moment of thinking about this subject is the fact that, if a professor has enough budget he or she will more probable to conduct innovative research projects. Needless to say, investigating cutting-edge scientific projects need an adequate budget. A vivid example which can be given to shed light on elaborated subject is one of my own experiences. When I was a master student at the University of Tehran, my professor decided to investigate a fascinating project which was measuring earth gravity changes in Tehran. Many instruments such as relative gravimeter were needed in order to accomplish this project, but the university administration did not accept to fund this project.

The second point that is worth considering is the fact that when a professor is getting enough salary, he or she will work more motivated in university projects and will be more active in class. As a matter of fact, when a person is satisfied with his or her salary will be more tended to give full attention to his or her job. A noteworthy well-organized statistics which was revealed by a research conducted in two universities of Iran shows that the University of Tehran in which 89 percent of its professors acclaimed that they are getting a reasonable salary, is more productive in publishing high-rated papers in international journals.

To make a long story short, based on the aforementioned arguments, there are many reasons and examples which can be persuasive enough in order to agree with the idea that spending salaries university professors is prior to other issues. Some of them are mentioned above such as; having enough budget to conduct new researches and dedicating full attention to work. But that was a story in a nutshell. Obviously, there are many other examples and details, challenging the claim, which are not debated here. All in all, a given university administration staff should consider that the most important part of a university is the professors, so they deserve enough salary.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, second, so, well, such as, as a matter of fact

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 15.1003584229 179% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 9.8082437276 102% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 13.8261648746 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.0286738351 190% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 43.0788530466 77% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 52.1666666667 102% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 8.0752688172 74% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2219.0 1977.66487455 112% => OK
No of words: 425.0 407.700716846 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.22117647059 4.8611393121 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54043259262 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14022898246 2.67179642975 118% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 212.727598566 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.527058823529 0.524837075471 100% => OK
syllable_count: 704.7 618.680645161 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.51630824373 112% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 9.59856630824 42% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.51792114695 142% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.94265232975 40% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 20.6003584229 78% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 26.0 20.1344086022 129% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 80.6333329027 48.9658058833 165% => OK
Chars per sentence: 138.6875 100.406767564 138% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.5625 20.6045352989 129% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.875 5.45110844103 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 11.8709677419 76% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.85842293907 78% => OK
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: 0.186947835656 0.236089414692 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0591920980309 0.076458572812 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0591497773479 0.0737576698707 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123900682205 0.150856017488 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0656557130965 0.0645574589148 102% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 11.7677419355 139% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 58.1214874552 63% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 6.10430107527 183% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 10.1575268817 144% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 10.9000537634 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.86 8.01818996416 110% => OK
difficult_words: 106.0 86.8835125448 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 10.002688172 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 10.0537634409 123% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 10.247311828 146% => 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: 85.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.5 Out of 30
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