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."
While the proposal proposed by the university is a veritable one, making broad decisions based on ideals is rash at best. The decision to introduce new graduation requirements is highly nuanced and should be given a thorough consideration. The intention to do good should not result in bad outcomes.
Would it be prudent to mandate the community service as a graduation requirement for all students wheather they are undergraduate or graduate students? Students belonging to either category could have different work and time commitments for their respective category. While undergraduate students are enrolled in a typical 4 year program, the graduate programs are typically of 2 years long. The level of detail increases in graduate programs compared to undergraduate ones, commensurately increasing the work load. The administration should take note of these differences and should conduct a survey wheather these requirements add any further brudern on students. Using these surveys they can have a lucid picture on which category should these requirements be made mandetory.
The admistration should also be cognizant of the fact that adding these requirements could potentially increase the duration required to graduate. This could pose as a problem for students who cannot afford another semester due to financial constraints. The administration should take these facts into its nouse, so that no extra financial burden is forced onto the students. The administration could take help of an anonymous survey to better understand the financial situation of the students and act accordingly.
Foremost the charaties should be survey wheather they are in need of help, and wheather they are able to eqiup the students for the task required to be performed. It can very well be the case that the fledgeling students would need a thorough trainig to be able to help the said charaties. Without this knowledge the charaties would be encumbured with ineffciencies as they would have to teach the students by themselves.
The university should take some more time to finalize the requiremts as there could be many unexplored side effects. Only after all the kinks are cleared should the university proceed with the proposal.
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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: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 350 350
No. of Characters: 1847 1500
No. of Different Words: 185 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.325 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.277 4.6
Word Length SD: 3 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 137 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 112 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 94 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 54 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.444 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 3.89 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.389 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.318 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.569 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.09 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 331, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'program' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'programs'.
Suggestion: programs
...udents are enrolled in a typical 4 year program, the graduate programs are typically of...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 34, Rule ID: SHOULD_BE_DO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'surveyed'?
Suggestion: surveyed
...ly. Foremost the charaties should be survey wheather they are in need of help, and ...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, also, if, so, well, while, after all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 24.0 12.9520958084 185% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 37.0 55.5748502994 67% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1888.0 2260.96107784 84% => OK
No of words: 350.0 441.139720559 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.39428571429 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.32530772707 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.05607457971 2.78398813304 110% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.534285714286 0.468620217663 114% => OK
syllable_count: 585.9 705.55239521 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 23.4970447314 57.8364921388 41% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 104.888888889 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4444444444 23.324526521 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.72222222222 5.70786347227 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.172536596887 0.218282227539 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0599260225405 0.0743258471296 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0610630387484 0.0701772020484 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0932703391765 0.128457276422 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0454419415783 0.0628817314937 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.3799401198 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.3550499002 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.98 12.5979740519 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.82 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 98.500998004 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => 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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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.