It bases its conclusion on the premise that students and alumnae are in opposition to co-education. It also goes further stating advantages that would result out of continuing all-female education. At first sight, this argument seems coherent and convincing. On scrutiny, it is found to be rife with holes and assumptions. Only after a careful analysis, can a decision be made about the future implications of this recommendation.
Firstly, the author states that majority of faculty members voted for coeducation as they thought it would increase student-intake. However, the current student intake is not mentioned and what caused the faculty members to think so must be mentioned. Co-education succeeding in other institutions does not necessarily mean success will result in Grove College too. Above all, the author just mentions that a majority of faculty members voted. However, the term 'majority' is vague and arouses suspicion. More details regarding the total strength of faculties and those who preferred to vote and their reasons for their votes etc.. must be gathered and summarized in order to get a clear picture about the views of the faculty members and their relevance to the issue at hand.
Secondly, the author commits 'ad-populum' fallacy in two instances. He states that 80 percent of the students responding to the survey were in favor of all-female education. On the contrary, very few students could have reported for the survey. For example, in a college of 1000 students, if just 100 students turn up for survey, a meager number of 80 students(80 percent) voting in favor of all-female education will not reflect the opinions of the majority of 1000 students. The case in doubt is that, the status or opinion of the remaining 900 students are unknown in this sample scenario and this result from a small sample cannot be extrapolated. The author commits the same flaw when mentioning 'half' of the alumnae who answered a separate survey. He has to answer whether both surveys were identical and comparable. Moreover, the author has to come out of his 'biased sample' fallacy by quoting proper numbers as and where required.
Thirdly, the author commits the fallacy of 'quantum leap' of faith when he predicts advantages of continuing all-female education system. The author has to elaborate on how will all-female education improve the morale of the students. For instance, the case might be that, since males are not allowed to study in the institution, it can be of a problem to the female students when they venture out to the real world taking up jobs. Hence, the implication of 'morale' must be clarified. Also, the author makes a 'correlation-causation' fallacy, when he states that alumni will continue funding if all-female education is continued. Consequently, the question of how does all-female education convince alumnae to grant funds must be answered. This also throws in a question of whether the college will be unable to manage the college operations if alumnae were to stop their funding. The answers to these questions are of prime necessity in determining the expectant advantages of going ahead with the same system.
Thus the author has presented an argument which rises lots of questions like those pertaining to the following: definition of the term 'majority'; the current intake of Grove College; details of the surveys conducted; relevance and compatibility of the surveys presented to the students and the alumnae; ways in which morale will be boosted through all-female education; reason for alumnae's funds related with the current system. This argument will be free of errors if the author takes time to put up all the required evidence and avoid vague terminologies like 'majority', '80 percent' etc... Moreover, the author must establish the conformity of the predicted advantages through proper reasoning without taking a giant leap of faith. Unless these questions are answered properly, the recommendation cannot be taken further for the next stages of implementation.
- The following recommendation was made by the president and administrative staff of Grove College a private institution to the college s governing committee We recommend that Grove College preserve its century old tradition of all female education rather t 50
- The following recommendation was made by the president and administrative staff of Grove College a private institution to the college s governing committee
- The following recommendation was made by the president and administrative staff of Grove College a private institution to the college s governing committee 53
- A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college
- A nation should require all of its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college 50
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 30 15
No. of Words: 648 350
No. of Characters: 3292 1500
No. of Different Words: 293 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.045 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.08 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.792 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 257 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 202 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 130 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 82 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.6 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.45 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.268 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.447 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.084 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 628, Rule ID: DOUBLE_PUNCTUATION
Message: Two consecutive dots
Suggestion: .
...te and their reasons for their votes etc.. must be gathered and summarized in orde...
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Line 3, column 631, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Must
...and their reasons for their votes etc.. must be gathered and summarized in order to ...
^^^^
Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...of going ahead with the same system. Thus the author has presented an argument wh...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, consequently, first, firstly, hence, however, if, moreover, regarding, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, thus, as to, for example, for instance, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.9520958084 154% => OK
Conjunction : 16.0 11.1786427146 143% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 28.8173652695 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 95.0 55.5748502994 171% => OK
Nominalization: 29.0 16.3942115768 177% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3373.0 2260.96107784 149% => OK
No of words: 648.0 441.139720559 147% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.20524691358 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.04537849152 4.56307096286 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89205889111 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 306.0 204.123752495 150% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.472222222222 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 1060.2 705.55239521 150% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 20.0 8.76447105788 228% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 32.0 19.7664670659 162% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.6341765377 57.8364921388 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.40625 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.25 23.324526521 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.3125 5.70786347227 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 8.20758483034 195% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0477770602372 0.218282227539 22% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0132814419528 0.0743258471296 18% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0360911739382 0.0701772020484 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0281212246733 0.128457276422 22% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0107291866217 0.0628817314937 17% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.3799401198 92% => 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: 12.94 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.65 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 165.0 98.500998004 168% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 12.3882235529 61% => 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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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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