The following appeared in a letter from the faculty committee to the president of Seatown University:
A study conducted at nearby Oceania University showed that faculty retention is higher when professors are offered free tuition at the university for their own college-aged children. Therefore, Seatown should institute a free-tuition policy for its professors for the purpose of enhancing morale among the faculty and luring new professors.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The university must consider some of the likely scenarios before going ahead with the free-tuition policy. First of all, they must evaluate how many professors's children want to pursue the programs offered by the Seatown Universities. If this policy is supposed to be a major selling point for the new professors to join the university, then it is hardly going to create an impact on those children interested in other college programs.
The free-tuition policy might work reasonably well for luring older professors.In order to attract younger professors, who are unlikely to have college-aged children for a while, the university must offer some flexibility in terms of research and development to the professors. There can be other incentives to attract the comparatively younger professors, such as by means of good grant, subsidy in other forms such as accommodation, etc.
Another important evidence to consider is the freedom afforded to professors in terms of the research. A free tuition policy might encourage retention of faculty due to benefits provided to their children but it is unlikely to increase morale if the professors are only staying for the sake of their children. In such a case, this free-tuition policy would essentially serve as a round peg for a square hole. The professors will want to work in a cogent environment that allows them to have a certain degree of freedom regarding the topics they want to work and the equipments for verification of their theoretical formulations. So in order to keep the morale up, the university might consider spending in laboratory equipments and allowing the professors a certain degree of freedom so that they feel valued and backed.
Similarly arguments can be made about the disparity among different college departments or different labs within the same department regarding facilities and grants provided. Therefore, the university must be sure that such a policy will indeed boost the morale and not just be a stop-gap solution to retain the faculty. If such discrepancies and disharmony exist, then this policy might be able to persuade faculty to stay in the university for a few more years till their children graduate but they are likely to consider to leave soon after that.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 367 350
No. of Characters: 1859 1500
No. of Different Words: 183 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.377 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.065 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.888 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 134 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 104 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 83 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 53 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 28.231 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.807 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.769 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.367 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.58 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.085 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 30, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
The university must consider some of the likely scenarios before going ahead wit...
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Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: In
...onably well for luring older professors.In order to attract younger professors, wh...
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Line 3, column 440, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... other forms such as accommodation, etc. Another important evidence to consider i...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Similarly,
...so that they feel valued and backed. Similarly arguments can be made about the dispari...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, regarding, similarly, so, then, therefore, well, while, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1894.0 2260.96107784 84% => OK
No of words: 366.0 441.139720559 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.17486338798 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37391431897 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95809162648 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 204.123752495 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.516393442623 0.468620217663 110% => OK
syllable_count: 603.9 705.55239521 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => 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: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 28.0 22.8473053892 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 52.870613531 57.8364921388 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.692307692 119.503703932 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.1538461538 23.324526521 121% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.15384615385 5.70786347227 125% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.162028775746 0.218282227539 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0599250213111 0.0743258471296 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0396865257831 0.0701772020484 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0996632660347 0.128457276422 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0266003887998 0.0628817314937 42% => 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: 17.0 14.3799401198 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 48.3550499002 89% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.197005988 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 98.500998004 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 12.3882235529 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.1389221557 119% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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