Fifteen years ago, Omega University implemented a new procedure that encouraged students to evaluate the teaching effectiveness of all their professors. Since that time, Omega professors have begun to assign higher grades in their classes and overall student grade averages at Omega have risen by percent. Potential employers, looking at this dramatic rise in grades, believe that grades at Omega are inflated and do not accurately reflect student achievements; as a result, Omega graduates have not been as successful at getting jobs as have graduates from nearby Alpha University. To enable its graduates to secure better jobs, Omega University should terminate student evaluation of professors.
The authors conclusion that to enable graduates of Omega University to secure better jobs, it should terminate student evaluation of professors is not supported by adequate evidences and is based on certain assumptions. Following points needs to be considered before such conclusion can be drawn.
Firstly, the author's assumption that rise in grades is only because professors wants to get good assessment results might be false. Professors may have actually started teaching more effectively. Because of such improvement, grades of students may have improved by significant numbers. Additionally, more comprehensive techniques might have been adopted by the professors so that students can grasp more knowledge. Moreover, the author mentions that overall student grade average have risen by 30 percent. The author does not provide any supporting data which substantiates that they have actually risen by 30 percent. Samples from which this data comes may only include students who have scored better grades than previous terms and not the ones who have failed or scored lower grades than previous term.
Secondly, the author mentions that Alpha University graduates have secured more jobs than Omega University graduates. Some questions must be fully answered for understanding this statement. Do Omega and Alpha University offer same courses? Is author referring to same employer in both cases? Is author comparing just one employer or overall employers? Furthermore, 'Potential employer' is vague term. It does not clearly specifies which employers are considered by the author as potential employers.
Lastly, the author assumes that after termination of professor evaluation by students, grades of students will be retained and they will be same as they were before introduction of procedure. Even after termination of procedure, some professors may continue to teach effectively. Because of this, there may not be any significant difference in overall grades of students and problem of employers may remain as it was before the termination of procedure.
Therefore, the author needs to provide more details about professors, students as well as employers and statistical data for jobs in order to strengthen his argument.
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Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 339 350
No. of Characters: 1851 1500
No. of Different Words: 170 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.291 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.46 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.819 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 145 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 117 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 89 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 63 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 16.95 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.464 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.65 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.321 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.55 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.12 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 5, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
The authors conclusion that to enable graduates of ...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 14, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...onclusion can be drawn. Firstly, the authors assumption that rise in grades is only ...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 420, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'specify'
Suggestion: specify
...oyer is vague term. It does not clearly specifies which employers are considered by the a...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, firstly, furthermore, if, lastly, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, well, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 55.5748502994 70% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1899.0 2260.96107784 84% => OK
No of words: 339.0 441.139720559 77% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.6017699115 5.12650576532 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.29091512845 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91660914211 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 204.123752495 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.501474926254 0.468620217663 107% => OK
syllable_count: 593.1 705.55239521 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 22.8473053892 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 51.2053708121 57.8364921388 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.95 119.503703932 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.95 23.324526521 73% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.05 5.70786347227 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.173736812992 0.218282227539 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.058659160104 0.0743258471296 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0451765844382 0.0701772020484 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0928400848881 0.128457276422 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0329141962012 0.0628817314937 52% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.3799401198 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 46.78 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.9 12.5979740519 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.9 8.32208582834 107% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 98.500998004 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.1389221557 75% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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