While the Department of Education in the state of Attra suggests that high school students be assigned homework every day, the data from a recent statewide survey of high school math and science teachers give us reason to question the usefulness of daily homework. In the district of Sanlee, 86 percent of the teachers reported assigning homework three to five times a week, whereas in the district of Marlee, less than 25 percent of the teachers reported assigning homework three to five times a week. Yet the students in Marlee earn better grades overall and are less likely to be required to repeat a year of school than are the students in Sanlee. Therefore, we recommend that all teachers in our high schools should assign homework no more than twice a week.
The argument concludes that the students in the Altra state should be assigned less than twice a week homework. The evidence cited to support this argument are statewise data survey by math and science teachers, better grades overall in one district and . However the permises are unable to justify or strenghthen the weak conclusion. The main reasons why the argument is rendered inconclusive are applicapibiliy of the data, falacious assumptions and cause and effect relationship.
Firstly, the author said that the statewise survey by the math and science teachers suggest us to assign more than twice a week homework to the students. At first, it seems plausible but how can the survey of two subjects can be applied to all of the subjects. Additionally, theoretical subjects like history, psychology need less of practice but more of cognition. However, subjects like math and science need more of practice. Furthermore, differnt subjects are different from each other, so survey of one subject is not applicable to the other subjects. Also the author haven't provide any authenticity of the data collrected, what if the teachers who are collecing data they are also from the same subject? so the data can be biased too. Hence, the argument is based on faulty assumptions and is subsequently not very logially strong.
Secondly, author said that the Marlee district where less than 25% of teachers assigned less than twice a homework have better overall grades than the sarlee state where 86% teachers have assigned more than twice a week homework but this is based on faulty cause and effect relationship. The better grades in one Marlee state can also be due to other factors like less absentism of students, lax marking of numbers by teachers, better didactic skills, better teaching standards and furthermore, difference can also be due to the difference of the curriculum or more ssignments in school only. So the argument is based on many faulty asssumptions and the argument remains oblivious.
Last but not the least the dropouts in Sarlee district highschool can also be due to the other reasons like mental ability of every student is different, maybe the students bunk alot in sarlee district. Also, the percentage of data provided is also inconsistent and full of fundamental loopholes. Percntage difference can also be due to the difference in poplation size. So, in order to prove this argument is valid the author has to mention the population size from which this data is collected.
So at the end the author's argument is based on fallacious ideas, there is inadequacy of data and wrong cause and effect relationships. In order to prove this argument right author need to provide more data.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 11.1786427146 170% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 28.8173652695 38% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2269.0 2260.96107784 100% => OK
No of words: 447.0 441.139720559 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07606263982 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59808378696 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77593058577 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 204.123752495 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.438478747204 0.468620217663 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 712.8 705.55239521 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.471057884232 212% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 66.1232615218 57.8364921388 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.047619048 119.503703932 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2857142857 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.66666666667 5.70786347227 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 10.0 5.25449101796 190% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => 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: 0.180566399151 0.218282227539 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0565899784117 0.0743258471296 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0487775319425 0.0701772020484 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103180175475 0.128457276422 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0432591112716 0.0628817314937 69% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.3799401198 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.46 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 98.500998004 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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