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 than admit men into its programs. It is true that a majority of faculty members voted in favor of coeducation, arguing that it would encourage more students to apply to Grove. But 80 percent of the students responding to a survey conducted by the student government wanted the school to remain all female, and over half of the alumnae who answered a separate survey also opposed coeducation. Keeping the college all female will improve morale among students and convince alumnae to keep supporting the college financially."
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 recommendation by the president and administrative staff of Grove College states that based on a survey provided to students, faculty, and alumnae they will keep the college all female, rather than begin coeducation. Surveys are typically seen as a non-reliable source in research studies, for this survey to be valid three questions must be answered.
How many people responded to the survey, compared to the amount of people still admitted? This is by far the most important statistic. For instance, did only 20% of the class get the survey. Perhaps the students that where given the survey were picked by the school to ensure they would put the schools 'right' answer. For this survey to be valid it would need to be sent out to every student, with most if not all of the students responding. If the students that either did not get the survey, or didn't respond, actually responded then maybe the survey would actually show that the students would prefer coeducation. This requires further analysis.
Are the Alumnae recent graduates, or did they graduate greater than 10 years ago? In other words, do the believes of the Alumnae reflect the beliefs of the students today? If the Alumnae are not recent graduates, likely their beliefs would not reflect the ones of current students. The school should rather be focused on what would benefit their students getting proper education rather than convincing "alumnae to keep supporting the college financially." Perhaps funding would increase, if more students where admitted upon admitting students of both sexes. Or alumnae could see how starting coeducation could be beneficial for the students by increasing the diversity of the school.
Do the students and alumnae that responded to the survey properly understand the benefits of coeducation? Perhaps the people that responded to the survey are completely unaware of the benefits of coeducation. Maybe if the participants in the survey were aware of the benefits of coeducation, they would actually prefer coeducation. Before the survey is done, there must be a proper analysis of what happened to Universities that shifted to coeducation. This information would be necessary for a survey to make a proper judgment on whether or not they would want coeducation in this particular school.
As survey's are typically seen as unreliable information in the academic research environment, it is important for the school to answer the above questions appropriately.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 410, Rule ID: ALL_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'all the'.
Suggestion: all the
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
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Message: Did you mean 'beliefs' (noun) instead of believes (verb)?
Suggestion: beliefs
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Line 17, column 533, Rule ID: WHETHER[7]
Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, if, may, so, still, then, for instance, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2106.0 2260.96107784 93% => OK
No of words: 398.0 441.139720559 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.29145728643 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.46653527281 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90195348984 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 204.123752495 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.449748743719 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 636.3 705.55239521 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 57.4886727973 57.8364921388 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.3 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.9 23.324526521 85% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.2 5.70786347227 56% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.0463124305979 0.218282227539 21% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0158079151592 0.0743258471296 21% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0588816678024 0.0701772020484 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.040067845758 0.128457276422 31% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0695118289709 0.0628817314937 111% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.3799401198 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.4 12.5979740519 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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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