The data from a survey of high school math and science teachers show that in the district of Sanlee many of these teachers reported assigning daily homework, whereas in the district of Marlee, most science and math teachers reported assigning homework no more than two or three days per week. Despite receiving less frequent homework assignments, Marlee students earn better grades overall and are less likely to be required to repeat a year of school than are students in Sanlee. These results call into question the usefulness of frequent homework assignments. Most likely the Marlee students have more time to concentrate on individual assignments than do the Sanlee students who have homework every day. Therefore teachers in our high schools should assign homework no more than twice a week.
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 given argument is full of lack of evidences and precise statistics. Some of the evidences used are correct but we cannot depend only on them to draw a conclusion. All causes behind a particular consequence are not stated, thus conclusion derived is fallible. Due to the use of words like "many", "most", etc it is difficult to make comparisions between these two schools. Other factors besides soliving homework like iq of students of two schools, skillset which teachers possess to assure a quality teaching to students, quality of assignments provided, type of individual assignments provided, etcetera are some of points which author fails to notice before drawing a conclusion.
In the given argument, there is no measure between the population of bothe teachers and students of the two schools. The number of teachers who reported giving assignments given to students is not comparable. Also the number of students who solve the assignments are not provided precisely. An appropiate ratio or percentages of both students and teachers might help to get a clear picture of comparison. Therefore, the arugument is fallible in the first place itself by not providing exact statistics of the population of students and teachers.
Then author tells a comparison between grades obtained by students. Even if number of assignments solved by the students is one of the many factors which are considered to predict the grades of students, it is not the only one. Other major causes for performing better in examinations like IQ of students, quality of teaching, quality of assignemnts, etcetera are not mentioned. Therefore, the argument needs more such evidences study before making a conclusion.
The author tells the effect of getting a better grade to be less chances that a student will repeat a school year. However, repeating a school year does not depend only on how well a student performs in an exam but many more. Causes like physical inferiority of a student, skillsets like leadership, self-confidence, etcetera also hold the effect of repetition of a school year in student's school life. Thus, the effect is not examined in detail to explore other major causes.
The author states that students at Marlee get more time to solve individual assignments but has not stated whether these individual assignments are regarding academics
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Essay evaluation report
Sentence: Due to the use of words like 'many', 'most', etc it is difficult to make comparisions between these two schools.
Error: comparisions Suggestion: comparisons
Sentence: Other factors besides soliving homework like iq of students of two schools, skillset which teachers possess to assure a quality teaching to students, quality of assignments provided, type of individual assignments provided, etcetera are some of points which author fails to notice before drawing a conclusion.
Error: soliving Suggestion: solving
Error: skillset Suggestion: skillet
Sentence: In the given argument, there is no measure between the population of bothe teachers and students of the two schools.
Error: bothe Suggestion: both
Sentence: An appropiate ratio or percentages of both students and teachers might help to get a clear picture of comparison.
Error: appropiate Suggestion: appropriate
Sentence: Therefore, the arugument is fallible in the first place itself by not providing exact statistics of the population of students and teachers.
Error: arugument Suggestion: argument
Sentence: Other major causes for performing better in examinations like IQ of students, quality of teaching, quality of assignemnts, etcetera are not mentioned.
Error: assignemnts Suggestion: assignments
Sentence: Causes like physical inferiority of a student, skillsets like leadership, self-confidence, etcetera also hold the effect of repetition of a school year in student's school life.
Error: skillsets Suggestion: skillet
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flaws:
Need to argue against the conclusion always. For this topic it is:
Therefore teachers in our high schools should assign homework no more than twice a week.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 7 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 379 350
No. of Characters: 1921 1500
No. of Different Words: 180 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.412 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.069 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.806 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 157 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 116 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 87 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 49 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.947 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.121 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.632 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.319 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.553 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.11 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 73, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: Some
...ck of evidences and precise statistics. Some of the evidences used are correct but we canno...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 634, Rule ID: MOST_SOME_OF_NNS[1]
Message: After 'some of', you should use 'the' ('some of the points') or simply say ''some points''.
Suggestion: some of the points; some points
...dual assignments provided, etcetera are some of points which author fails to notice before dra...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 210, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...ts given to students is not comparable. Also the number of students who solve the as...
^^^^
Line 7, column 61, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun chances is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
... effect of getting a better grade to be less chances that a student will repeat a sc...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, first, however, if, regarding, so, then, therefore, thus, well, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 12.9520958084 23% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 28.8173652695 31% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 55.5748502994 115% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1997.0 2260.96107784 88% => OK
No of words: 379.0 441.139720559 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.2691292876 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41224685777 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.03301337837 2.78398813304 109% => OK
Unique words: 189.0 204.123752495 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.498680738786 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 630.9 705.55239521 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 54.5252997264 57.8364921388 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.105263158 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9473684211 23.324526521 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.36842105263 5.70786347227 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.138479363748 0.218282227539 63% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0428738130658 0.0743258471296 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0530544787215 0.0701772020484 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0773119846787 0.128457276422 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0404346846526 0.0628817314937 64% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.3799401198 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.3550499002 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.16 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 86.0 98.500998004 87% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => 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
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