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 given argument is on a letter written to the president of Seatown University by the faculty committee appealing to offer free tuition fee to their own college-aged children by giving the example of Oceania University which already have a tuition fee wavier for the children of faculty members. In addition they wrote due to this the faculty retention is higher in Oceania University.
The Seatown University's faculty committee did not consider the other possible reasons for faculty retention, like offering increment in the salary, provision of good facilities or the good environment on the Oceania University. The Oceania University providing better funding for research purposes and other cultural activities which encourages everyone to avail these opportunities, which is better than Seatown University.
What if, there are none or very few faculties who have their children going to colleges? Even if they have college-aged children, then are they studying in Oceania University or some other University? So there is a assumption made by the faculty committee of Seatown University that many or all of the faculties being retained must have their children studying in Oceania University.
Again the argument states that the study conducted by someone at the Oceania University says faculty retention has increased because of free tuition fee offered to the faculties children. So how reliable is the source of this survey or study. and when was the survey conducted? It might be possible that the rule for tuition fee wavier must be an old one has nothing to do with the higher faculty retention.
Therefore, the higher faculty retention rate and the free tuition fee foe college based children may have no connection at all and the argument stated by the faculty committee to allow free tuition fees policy in Seatown University Is just not valid and is weakened by the above clauses.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: addition,
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Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: And
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Discourse Markers used:
['if', 'may', 'so', 'then', 'therefore', 'in addition']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.324074074074 0.25644967241 126% => OK
Verbs: 0.154320987654 0.15541462614 99% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0802469135802 0.0836205057962 96% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0308641975309 0.0520304965353 59% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0216049382716 0.0272364105082 79% => OK
Prepositions: 0.114197530864 0.125424944231 91% => OK
Participles: 0.0586419753086 0.0416121511921 141% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.76791983959 2.79052419416 99% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0277777777778 0.026700313972 104% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.117283950617 0.113004496875 104% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0123456790123 0.0255425247493 48% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0216049382716 0.0127820249294 169% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1905.0 2731.13054187 70% => OK
No of words: 306.0 446.07635468 69% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.22549019608 6.12365571057 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.18244613648 4.57801047555 91% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.408496732026 0.378187486979 108% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.356209150327 0.287650121315 124% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.228758169935 0.208842608468 110% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.150326797386 0.135150697306 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76791983959 2.79052419416 99% => OK
Unique words: 149.0 207.018472906 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.486928104575 0.469332199767 104% => OK
Word variations: 48.3273575013 52.1807786196 93% => OK
How many sentences: 12.0 20.039408867 60% => OK
Sentence length: 25.5 23.2022227129 110% => OK
Sentence length SD: 82.8996632482 57.7814097925 143% => OK
Chars per sentence: 158.75 141.986410481 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.5 23.2022227129 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.5 0.724660767414 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 3.58251231527 84% => OK
Readability: 61.1209150327 51.9672348444 118% => OK
Elegance: 2.40298507463 1.8405768891 131% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.647033590447 0.441005458295 147% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.160085381513 0.135418324435 118% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0749639787755 0.0829849096947 90% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.668471480204 0.58762219726 114% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.173121292974 0.147661913831 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.298808839387 0.193483328276 154% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.144872366313 0.0970749176394 149% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.353201972228 0.42659136922 83% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.106663079213 0.0774707102158 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.441875880735 0.312017818177 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0910753736456 0.0698173142475 130% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.33743842365 60% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.87684729064 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.82512315271 124% => OK
Positive topic words: 5.0 6.46551724138 77% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 5.36822660099 19% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.82389162562 71% => OK
Total topic words: 8.0 14.657635468 55% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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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