The following is an excerpt from a speech given to the School Board about a change to the curriculum Because the future will be dominated by technology we must make four years of computer programming mandatory for all high school students If our students

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The following is an excerpt from a speech given to the School Board about a change to the curriculum:

"Because the future will be dominated by technology, we must make four years of computer programming mandatory for all high school students. If our students take these classes, they’ll all be able to get high-paying programming jobs and lead fulfilling lives because software engineers and data scientists have the best job prospects and salaries. Therefore, we must educate our students so they can secure these kinds of jobs. Even if they pursue other careers, programming will still benefit them, given that all industries are becoming more technological."

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 made by the prompt suffers from many unwarranted assumptions, which if not addressed could lead to having an oppsite result, then what is stated in argument.

The prompt make an assumption that the mandatory requirement of programming classes would benefit the students universallly, which can very well be false. This requirement would add additinal budden on those students who don't even want to pursue a career in programming. Moreover it is highly plausible that this additional load would have a negative effect on the students i.e lowering their grades. This would lower their career prospects, the very thing the requirement was meant to improve.

Th prompt makes a false assumption that all the programming jobs lead to a happy life and have the best job prospects and salaries. It can very well be the case that the best salaries are offered to select few students while the majority are stuck with mediocre salaries. Also many students may not enjoy their work as every student has his/her own defination of happinesss. A student predesposed to the humanities will have his or her career prospects diminised, the very opposite the prompt posits, if such requirements are made mandotory.

The prompt make a glaring fallacy that all industries will be requiring programming background - would require programming skills - in the future. It is a gross generalization across all the industries. Some industries can very well remain unaffected by the growing technological advances. For a student who wants to be a lawyer, a background in programming will be worthless. A student who aspires to be an artist has no use of knowing how compilers compile code, or how a program in c++ is executed.

In conclution, the aurgument present by the prompt is missing information about many keys aspects in making a desicion which could have long lasting effect on students. Hence, only after rectifing the mentioned point and filling the gaps in information, the school board should make a decision.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion: is
...rom many unwarranted assumptions, which if not addressed could lead to having an o...
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
... additinal budden on those students who dont even want to pursue a career in program...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Moreover,
...want to pursue a career in programming. Moreover it is highly plausible that this additi...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...ority are stuck with mediocre salaries. Also many students may not enjoy their work ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, if, may, moreover, so, then, well, while

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 55.5748502994 58% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1691.0 2260.96107784 75% => OK
No of words: 328.0 441.139720559 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.15548780488 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25567506705 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.91345159281 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 204.123752495 91% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.564024390244 0.468620217663 120% => OK
syllable_count: 512.1 705.55239521 73% => 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: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => 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: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.2814163839 57.8364921388 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 105.6875 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.3125 5.70786347227 58% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.236107572151 0.218282227539 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0784188773123 0.0743258471296 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0518821515619 0.0701772020484 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117199488166 0.128457276422 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0563110940292 0.0628817314937 90% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.3799401198 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.67 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 98.500998004 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => 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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