The following recommendation was made by the president and administrative staff of Grove College, a private institution, to the college's governing committee.
"We recommend that Grove College preserve its century-old tradition of all-female education rather than admit men into its programs. It is true that a majority of faculty members voted in favor of coeducation, arguing that it would encourage more students to apply to Grove. But 80 percent of the students responding to a survey conducted by the student government wanted the school to remain all female, and over half of the alumnae who answered a separate survey also opposed coeducation. Keeping the college all female will improve morale among students and convince alumnae to keep supporting the college financially."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
Throughout history, prestigious all-female institutions have produced excellent students with high morale. However, the assertion that maintaining an all-female status would be beneficial for Grove College, made by its president and administrative staff, is debatable. Although there may be benefits, the argument from the president and administrative staff requires more information in order to be properly evaluated. The argument rests on several assumptions and unanswered questions that may seriously undermine the argument's strength and validity.
Grove Colleg's president and administrative staff ignore the demands of their faculty members to admit men into its programs. Will doing so result cause faculty members to leave the institution, thereby damaging the quality of education that students receive? If faculty members feel that their voice does not matter within the institution, it is possible that they may choose to seek employment elsewhere. Losing instructors may increase class sizes, making the educational experience of students less personalized and thereby decreasing the morale among students. As such, the college must consider how the decision to retain its all-female status will impact faculty members who favour coeducation.
The argument of the president and administrative staff also relies on a survey in which 80 percent of students voted for the school to remain all-female. How many students actually completed this survey? This is an important question to consider, as it affects whether the sample of students who completd the survey is representative of all Grove College students. For example, if only eighty of eight thousand students completed the survey, then it is possible that the majority of students prefer coeducation. Furthermore, it is possible that students who completed the survey is biased in favour of keeping the college all-female. People are often more likely to complete a survey calling for a change that they believe in. As such, it is possible that only members of the student government who released the survey actually completed it because they are in favour of keeping Grove College's all-female status. Questions regarding the representativeness of the sample who completed the survey must be answered before sound conclusions can be drawn from its results.
The president and administrative staff also cited the preference of school alumnae to oppose coeducation as evidence in favour of keeping the college all-female. However, by relying on the opinions of alumnae who are likely of an older cohort with more traditional ideologies, perhaps the school is not considering the best interests of younger current and prospective students. What if an all-female school will no longer benefit new graduates when they enter a mixed-gender workforce? If school officials do not consider this question, then they are generalizing experiences of students across generations, which may not be a valid generalization. As such, the school should consider the needs and preferences of current and future students. Furthermore, the school suggests that alumnae will keep supporting the college financially if it remains its all-female admissions process. Will the financial support of alumnae outweigh the financial gains from more applications from male students? It is possible that in the process of trying to retain support from alumnae, Grove College misses out on potential funds that could come from more applications and enrolled students. As such, relying on alumnae's opinions and financial support may not be in the school's bests interests.
The recommendation to keep the all-females structure of Grove College leaves many unanswered questions regarding the president and administrative staff's methods of gathering data. Before any conclusions are drawn and a decision made, it is critical to fill in the gaps and ensure that the college's governing body has a holistic view of the school's situation.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 28 15
No. of Words: 603 350
No. of Characters: 3314 1500
No. of Different Words: 269 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.955 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.496 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.994 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 278 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 221 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 163 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 102 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.536 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.828 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.679 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.317 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.503 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.102 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 203, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a different manner" with adverb for "different"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...ted assumptions that can be interpreted in a different manner. As such, motilac may not be as powerfu...
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Line 9, column 1560, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in an alternative manner" with adverb for "alternative"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...h of the information can be interpreted in an alternative manner than undermines the strength of the arg...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, however, if, lastly, may, so, still, then, for example, as a result, to begin with, in the first place, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 34.0 19.6327345309 173% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 25.0 13.6137724551 184% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 28.8173652695 174% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 85.0 55.5748502994 153% => OK
Nominalization: 35.0 16.3942115768 213% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3863.0 2260.96107784 171% => OK
No of words: 691.0 441.139720559 157% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.59044862518 5.12650576532 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.12707312764 4.56307096286 112% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.25220729239 2.78398813304 117% => OK
Unique words: 297.0 204.123752495 145% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.42981186686 0.468620217663 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1217.7 705.55239521 173% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 4.96107784431 262% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 15.0 2.70958083832 554% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 34.0 19.7664670659 172% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.2371194048 57.8364921388 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.617647059 119.503703932 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.3235294118 23.324526521 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.02941176471 5.70786347227 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 18.0 6.88822355289 261% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.173011407407 0.218282227539 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0470269456418 0.0743258471296 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0507428785918 0.0701772020484 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.102621836866 0.128457276422 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0469916307684 0.0628817314937 75% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.3799401198 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.26 48.3550499002 71% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.5 12.197005988 111% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.14 12.5979740519 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.42 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 166.0 98.500998004 169% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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