The following appeared as part of the Dean’s newsletter:
“The University of Wabash is considering a community service requirement for all undergraduate and graduate students. We believe that the objective of any university is to produce well-rounded and charitable members of society. The proposed graduation requirement would be to complete at least 8 hours of unpaid community service per month for a total of 9 months. The Dean’s office will maintain a list of approved local charities on its website with contact information. This is a fantastic opportunity for students to give back to the community and gain real-world working experience. Most importantly, local charities in need will receive the help that they need to continue their efforts.”
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The prompt highlights the University of Wabash is going to instruct its students to join the community service and provide various reasons to bolster the policy. One of the reasons is that it helps in making juvenile well rounded and also makes them charitable members of the society. Furthermore, the duration of the service was suggested to be at least 8 hours per month and to serve for 9 months. To validate further, the university provide with a list of local charities along with the contact information on the website and ensure that this act will also help needed charities and provide students with working experience. Although the argument sounds plausible, copious logical flaws are founded, and the new policy needs to be amended in order to achieve a more desirable comprehension.
First of all, the argument states that joining with charities will make the children well rounded but no such information is provided that how it facilitates students to become well rounded. To elucidate, there is no list of local charities is described and work the students have to serve which will ultimately make them multitalented. Moreover, there are no constraints on the selection of a particular charity and the students have to decide on their own with no information that which will help them the most. So the argument can be strengthened by listing the details of all the charities and the help needed and along with the reason that how joining a particular charity will make the students well rounded.
Secondly, the argument states that a particular youngster have to spend at least 8 hours a month with a total of 9 months. However, there is no description that how working for such a span of time will help them becoming better-rounded and how the timings are related to the requirement of the charity and the most imperatively the criteria used to decide this duration. Additionally, this time may also affect their ongoing studies and extra tuitions they had joined. Hence, the argument needs to be supported by the list of various services which a younger one needs to do along with the duration of that event and how the studies are managed along with their contribution for this time.
Lastly, the argument states that the children receive the real world working experience but there is no one stated that how this experience will help them in their future. To add more, it has been stated that this will help local charities also but no one it is approved that local charities are in need of help and what type of help they need and how the children service will retain their purpose. Thus, the argument needs to be provided with the information regarding the lacking of charities and how joining of students will serve their purpose and also help the children in future.
Thus, the argument is not logically convincing. The evidence in support of the conclusion has failed to provide information on the above mentioned argument. Thus, there is need to support the argument with detailed and comprehensive analysis of the various points stated.
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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: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 519 350
No. of Characters: 2504 1500
No. of Different Words: 194 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.773 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.825 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.608 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 172 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 143 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 91 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 51 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.316 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.404 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.789 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.339 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.57 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.151 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 212, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[9]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to become' or 'become'.
Suggestion: to become; become
... for such a span of time will help them becoming better-rounded and how the timings are ...
^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 576, Rule ID: IN_PAST[1]
Message: Did you mean: 'in the future'?
Suggestion: in the future
...heir purpose and also help the children in future. Thus, the argument is not logically c...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, hence, however, lastly, may, moreover, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, thus, well, at least, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 11.1786427146 197% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 28.8173652695 128% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 68.0 55.5748502994 122% => OK
Nominalization: 26.0 16.3942115768 159% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2549.0 2260.96107784 113% => OK
No of words: 519.0 441.139720559 118% => OK
Chars per words: 4.91136801541 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7730044521 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67794733846 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.387283236994 0.468620217663 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 791.1 705.55239521 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.5613826161 57.8364921388 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 134.157894737 119.503703932 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.3157894737 23.324526521 117% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.52631578947 5.70786347227 132% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0888171621794 0.218282227539 41% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0357584268413 0.0743258471296 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0436528183515 0.0701772020484 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.055219085636 0.128457276422 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0480972399403 0.0628817314937 76% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 14.3799401198 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 48.3550499002 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 12.197005988 103% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.5979740519 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 98.500998004 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.