This argument makes use of an observation based in a nearby Oceania University to support the proposal of instituting a free-tuition policy for professors of Seatown University in order to retain more professors while enhancing the morale and luring new professors to the university. Although the fundamental idea might be the same, there is plenty of information lacking in this argument to support the idea of offering free-tuition for the children of professors.
Firstly, although it might be true that an anecdotal experience in a neighbouring university may provide some grounds in instituting free college tuition for professors with college-aged children, it doesn't take into account that these universities are different. This brings about much vagueness and possible points for contention. If the Seatown University and Oceania university have different qualities of education and different niche subjects, the tuition would be vastly different and have different impacts. For the example of niche subjects, if Oceania university were to specialise in the arts and literature while Seatown University's niche is in science and research and pre-medical education, the latter would definitely spend more on university infrastructure for the latest laboratories, equipments and technology. As such, it might not be a practical solution in the long run to offer free tuition as Seatown University might not even have the financial ability to support this. Additionally, the quality of education also plays a part in the outcome of this policy. Perhaps Oceania University has a lower quality of education while Seatown University employs more established and renowned professors. This could also mean higher tuition fees for Seatown University, making it impractical to offer free tuition.
Another missing link in the argument is the lack of consideration for the demand of both Seatown and Oceania Universities. Different universities have different niches and rankings and certain universities may be more established and recognised, nationally and globally, than others. If for example, Seatown University were less recognised and ranked lower than Oceania University it could mean that even with the instituted free tuition at Seatown University, professors might still not want their college-aged children to study there and choose to let their students study elsewhere. As a result, this would not very much affect the retention of professors.
In addition, the argument suggests that offering free tuition for college-aged children of professors would enhance the morale among faculty and lure new professors. This conclusion cannot be accurately extracted just from the case study of Oceania University. In Oceania University, the policy only showed a higher faculty retention rate. It does not indicate the reasons for the higher retention rate. Perhaps Oceania University has longer contracts than Seatown University, causing faculty members to remain in the university for a longer period of time purely due to binding contracts. It does not correlate to an increased morale and may not necessarily be more inviting to new professors, particularly professors who do not have college-aged children.
In light of the above arguments and different outcomes were different evidence to be presented, Seatown University should re-evaluate the purpose for their policy. If the main reason for the policy is to enhance faculty morale, they should investigate the current faculty morale and ways to improve it if any, perhaps through better working hours and welfare benefits, or even better school policies to increase the standard and quality of teaching at Seatown University. If the main purpose is to attract new professors to the university, Seatown University should break down what kind of professors they are looking for and look at other successful case studies for universities who managed to attract their target group of faculty. If the university aims to improve faculty retention, it should once again survey the reasons why faculty members are leaving and find ways to retain them if possible.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 24 15
No. of Words: 633 350
No. of Characters: 3433 1500
No. of Different Words: 261 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.016 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.423 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.906 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 281 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 233 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 149 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 114 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.375 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.031 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.625 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.338 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.51 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.101 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...ofessors with college-aged children, it doesnt take into account that these universiti...
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Line 3, column 916, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...in the long run to offer free tuition as Seatown University might not even have t...
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Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...o remain in the university for a longer period of time purely due to binding contracts. It doe...
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Line 9, column 736, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... attract their target group of faculty. If the university aims to improve faculty ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, firstly, if, look, may, so, still, while, for example, in addition, kind of, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 11.1786427146 233% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 71.0 55.5748502994 128% => OK
Nominalization: 32.0 16.3942115768 195% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3497.0 2260.96107784 155% => OK
No of words: 632.0 441.139720559 143% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.5332278481 5.12650576532 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.01394158123 4.56307096286 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98518505539 2.78398813304 107% => OK
Unique words: 268.0 204.123752495 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.424050632911 0.468620217663 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1132.2 705.55239521 160% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 4.96107784431 222% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 11.0 2.70958083832 406% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 78.1019188127 57.8364921388 135% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.708333333 119.503703932 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3333333333 23.324526521 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.20833333333 5.70786347227 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.429553355906 0.218282227539 197% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.134359333026 0.0743258471296 181% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0755041536828 0.0701772020484 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.270942517197 0.128457276422 211% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0290685432182 0.0628817314937 46% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.8 14.3799401198 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 28.17 48.3550499002 58% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 12.197005988 130% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.09 12.5979740519 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.65 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 149.0 98.500998004 151% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 20.5 12.3882235529 165% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.9071856287 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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