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.
According to the letter received by the president of Seatown University, a study conducted at a nearby university showed that faculty retention was higher when professors were offered free tuition at the university for their college-going children. As a result, the faculty committee believes that Seatown University should implement a similar policy. While this policy may indeed be beneficial for Seatown University, the faculty committee's argument is lacking some information that could either bolster or work against it. We would require some numeric data that could bolster the claim, information about how comparable the two universities are, and details about the specifics of the study.
As aforementioned, a major piece of required information is numeric data. Numbers and proportions always enhance the credibility of an argument and would help us see whether the increase in retention rate after the implementation of the policy at Oceania University was sufficient to deem the policy successful. If data shows that only a few more faculty members out of hundreds of faculty members decided to stay as a result of the free tuition policy, then proportion wise, the policy did not actually have a huge effect. However, if data shows that the retention rate increased by 50% after the implementation of this policy, the supposed causal effect between retention rate and free tuition would become more credible. After all, correlation does not always imply causation. Having numeric data would help better determine a potential causal effect within the study.
Another piece of evidence that we would require is with regard to the similarities between Oceania University and Seatown University. How comparable are these two universities? If Oceania University was home to multiple professors with college-aged children, then the success of the study would make sense. Similarly, if Seatown University houses multiple professors with college-aged children, then perhaps the policy would be equally useful to them in enhancing faculty morale. However, if Seatown University has many young professors with young children, then the effects of this policy could be negligible. The effects of the free tuition policy could go either way depending on how similar or dissimilar the two universities are. Just because Oceania University is "nearby" to Seatown University does not imply that they are run in the same way. An additional factor to consider is the fact that Seatown University might not have as much funding as Oceania University in order to successfully implement such a policy. Providing free tuition might end up cutting out of other benefits that professors receive, in turn actually reducing faculty morale.
A final piece of information that would help evaluate the credibility of this argument involves knowing the details of the study that has been quoted. We currently do not know anything about the study except for where it was conducted. How long ago was the study conducted? What method was used? It would be useful to know when the study was conducted because if it turns out that it was conducted 20 years ago, it might not be applicable today; universities are bound to change over time. The method used in the study is also pertinent because it could make or break the credibility of the argument. If the method used was not suitable for this type of study, then the results could be flawed.
In sum, the argument that we see in the letter from the faculty committee to the president of Seatown University may very well be strong and accurate. The problem is that it becomes difficult to evaluate its strength given the number of missing yet necessary details. The provision of numeric data, statistics about how comparable the two universities are, and information about the study that was conducted, would help us holistically conclude about how strong this argument really is.
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Essay evaluation report
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: 29 15
No. of Words: 628 350
No. of Characters: 3222 1500
No. of Different Words: 252 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.006 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.131 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.755 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 244 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 192 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 122 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 89 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.655 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.437 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.586 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.3 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.484 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.15 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, however, if, may, really, similarly, so, then, well, while, after all, except for, as a result, with regard to, in the same way
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 33.0 19.6327345309 168% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 12.9520958084 170% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 41.0 28.8173652695 142% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 71.0 55.5748502994 128% => OK
Nominalization: 29.0 16.3942115768 177% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3307.0 2260.96107784 146% => OK
No of words: 628.0 441.139720559 142% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26592356688 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.00598923014 4.56307096286 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84878752965 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 266.0 204.123752495 130% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.423566878981 0.468620217663 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1073.7 705.55239521 152% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 10.0 2.70958083832 369% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 29.0 19.7664670659 147% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 58.4559958283 57.8364921388 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.034482759 119.503703932 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.6551724138 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.93103448276 5.70786347227 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.20758483034 171% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.67664670659 257% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.37996665958 0.218282227539 174% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103345961612 0.0743258471296 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.118952423959 0.0701772020484 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.225099929797 0.128457276422 175% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.138809437911 0.0628817314937 221% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.3550499002 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.07 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 135.0 98.500998004 137% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 12.3882235529 125% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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