The following is part of a memorandum from the president of Humana University.
"Last year the number of students who enrolled in online degree programs offered by nearby Omni University increased by 50 percent. During the same year, Omni showed a significant decrease from prior years in expenditures for dormitory and classroom space, most likely because online instruction takes place via the Internet. In contrast, over the past three years, enrollment at Humana University has failed to grow and the cost of maintaining buildings has increased. Thus, to increase enrollment and solve the problem of budget deficits at Humana University, we should initiate and actively promote online degree programs like those at Omni."
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 these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The memorandum from the president of Humana University avers that to increase student enrollment and reduce budgeting, the university should promote and implement online learning procedure. This argument is based on the increased enrollment of online studies that Omni university compared to the previous years and their record of declined expenditures on maintaining the dormitory and classrooms. However, for this argument to hold, this assumption needs to be critically examined.
Firstly, the president of Humana University is using the 50 percent increase in the previous year to come to his conclusion. However, it is possible that there was an endemic that affected the location of Omni University and resulted in students enrolling online and not using the school's resources such as classes and dormitory. If this is the case, thus the argument does not hold water.
Secondly, Human University and Omni university could be very different in terms of the course of study they offer and inherently, this may influence the type of student they attract. Omni university could be offering courses that are mostly suitable for working class students. And as such, most of the would enroll online while Humana University courses may be more technical courses that require laboratory techniques like the medical sciences courses or the engineering courses. Hence, promoting an online option may not increase the number of enrollment at Humana University nor reduce the university's spending.
Moreover, other factors might have increased the number of students' enrolled or decreased the expenses. For instance, Omni University might have improved the resources at the school or decreased tuition fee to attract more people to enroll to the university. And the caliber of the students they took in may have reduced the expenditure since the spending could be more on fixing damages done by students. And Omni University may have enrolled students who do not damage the university properties. If this were to be the case, the argument would be significantly weakened.
In conclusion, if the assumptions above were to be true, the promoting online enrollment would not reduce expenditure nor will it increase students' enrollment.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 348 350
No. of Characters: 1845 1500
No. of Different Words: 164 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.319 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.302 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.77 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 146 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 120 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 95 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 56 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.75 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.224 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.812 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.362 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.362 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.099 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, hence, however, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, thus, while, for instance, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 38.0 55.5748502994 68% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1882.0 2260.96107784 83% => OK
No of words: 348.0 441.139720559 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.40804597701 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31911543099 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84685867353 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 167.0 204.123752495 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.479885057471 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 611.1 705.55239521 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.4018013611 57.8364921388 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.625 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.75 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.625 5.70786347227 134% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.367255188817 0.218282227539 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.137971733243 0.0743258471296 186% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0966700490173 0.0701772020484 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.215605293137 0.128457276422 168% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0700346707788 0.0628817314937 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 33.24 48.3550499002 69% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.1 12.5979740519 112% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.81 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 98.500998004 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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