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.
The argument given is based on some unstated/unwarranted assumptions, and there are few logical fallacies in the argument.
The study conducted at nearby Oceania University revealed that the faculty retention is higher when professors are offered free tuition at the university for their children. But, the argument didn't establish whether the free tuition fee for professor's children is the only factor which determines the faculty retention. Oceania University might have a conducive atmosphere for research and research funds are high so that professors who work on long-term research projects have a high chance of staying in the same university. It would be better to evaluate all the factors collectively to justify the faculty retention at Oceania University.
The argument makes a blunt assumption that instituting free-tuition policy at Seatown would increase faculty retention. The argument needs to consider a few factors, before introducing free-tuition for professor's children. Whether the University has enough funds to take the burden. If Seatown university is a private university, it should compensate such additional costs by increasing the tuition fee of other students, unlike public universities, private universities have less financial aid from the state, which in turn may reduce the number of students applying for the university.
In addition to all these, the argument says, the new policy will enhance morale among the faculty and lure new professors. Free tuition for professor's children is one among other benefits that the universities provide. Professors ought to opt for colleges which have good research funding, have a high reputation in the state. The argument cannot conclude that introducing the new policy would enhance morale among faculty.
Thus the argument is flawed because of the above mentioned unstated assumptions. So, the argument should consider the other factors too before instituting the policy.
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Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- not OK
argument 3 -- OK
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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: 15 15
No. of Words: 297 350
No. of Characters: 1626 1500
No. of Different Words: 148 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.151 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.475 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.84 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 133 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 110 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 79 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 47 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.8 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.079 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.4 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.386 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.611 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.076 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 194, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...y for their children. But, the argument didnt establish whether the free tuition fee ...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 225, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Whether” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...g free-tuition for professors children. Whether the University has enough funds to take...
^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 2, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...ould enhance morale among faculty. Thus the argument is flawed because of the a...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, may, so, thus, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.6327345309 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 11.1786427146 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 28.8173652695 31% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 55.5748502994 50% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 24.0 16.3942115768 146% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1666.0 2260.96107784 74% => OK
No of words: 295.0 441.139720559 67% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.64745762712 5.12650576532 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.14434120667 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99784467247 2.78398813304 108% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 204.123752495 74% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.515254237288 0.468620217663 110% => OK
syllable_count: 529.2 705.55239521 75% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 58.7839736285 57.8364921388 102% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.066666667 119.503703932 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.6666666667 23.324526521 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.33333333333 5.70786347227 41% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.36605870157 0.218282227539 168% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.127401279381 0.0743258471296 171% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.155310317252 0.0701772020484 221% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.168802157288 0.128457276422 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.175458569763 0.0628817314937 279% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 35.27 48.3550499002 73% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.49 12.5979740519 123% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.7 8.32208582834 105% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 98.500998004 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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