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 argument suggests that the Seatown University should institute a free-tuition policy for its professors for the purpose of enhancing morale among the faculty and luring new professors to join the university. The main evidence that the argument provides for the same is that more professors are retained when their college-aged children are offered a free tuition at the university. There are two questions that I would like to raise before concluding that the current research is best for the university to retain its professors.
Firstly, Is the ratio of professors having college-aged children to those not having college-aged children higher? It is stated that more professors are retained because their college-aged children are offered free tuition, but what if this conclusion is only based on a small proportion of the professors that have college-based children. For example, among all the professors only 30% of the professors have college-based children. And this research is done only among this 30% of the professors, it would be an invalid case as it would ignore a majority of the professors that do not have college-based children.
Secondly, Is there any proper analysis that this offering would lure the new professors? Until now it has always been believed that the professors are older in age and would have grown-up kids, but with the advancements in generation more and more young graduates are aiming to become professors. And so the avg age for new professor intake has been decreasing. As we know, the younger professors might not be married to have college kids, and even though they have kids, can it be asserted that they are college-aged? Because if it can't be proved, the above argument would not stand valid based on this assumption.
Thirdly, Is the assumption that the professors are more concerned about the benefits they get from the university rather than other moral desires true? All professors might not be willing to work just because of the benefits they get from the job. Professors are considered to be selfless, perhaps next to gods for developing and moulding young generation to achieve something bigger in the future.
The above-raised concerns must be proved invalid in order to consider the conclusion made in this argument. If the faculty committee could provide proper research and analysis, perhaps along with the statistics and the numbers, it would be more appropriate to validate the argument to a conclusion. This would help us to decide if the university should institute a free-tuition-based policy to lure professors.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 3 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 9 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 418 350
No. of Characters: 2126 1500
No. of Different Words: 191 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.522 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.086 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.878 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 149 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 122 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 95 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 60 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.222 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.591 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.556 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.37 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.609 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.177 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 534, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...at they are college-aged? Because if it cant be proved, the above argument would not...
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Line 5, column 534, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'cants'?
Suggestion: cants
...at they are college-aged? Because if it cant be proved, the above argument would not...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.6327345309 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 28.8173652695 132% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2174.0 2260.96107784 96% => OK
No of words: 418.0 441.139720559 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.2009569378 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52162009685 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95295561898 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 204.123752495 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.454545454545 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 684.0 705.55239521 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.8791459072 57.8364921388 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.777777778 119.503703932 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2222222222 23.324526521 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.11111111111 5.70786347227 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => 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: 0.186217118381 0.218282227539 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0700985945113 0.0743258471296 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0625287341368 0.0701772020484 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.122443286053 0.128457276422 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.085751760105 0.0628817314937 136% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.18 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 98.500998004 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => 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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