A study conducted at nearby Oceania University showed that faculty retention is higher when professors are offered free tuition at the university for their own college-aged children. Therefore, Seatown should institute a free-tuition policy for its profes

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A study conducted at nearby Oceania University showed that faculty retention is higher when professors are offered free tuition at the university for their own college-aged children. Therefore, Seatown should institute a free-tuition policy for its professors for the purpose of enhancing morale among the faculty and luring new professors.

In this memo, the author contends that Seatown university should institute a free-tuition policy for its professors in order to enhance morale among the faculty and lure new professors. He or she cites as evidence to support his or her claims the findings of a study conducted at nearby Oceania University where professors are offered free tuition for their college-aged children. The reasoning of the argument is totally flawed as it is based upon unsubstantiated assumptions.

Firstly, the readers have no indication about the circumstances or any other factors in reference to the specific study conducted at nearby Oceania University. The author of the argument needs to provide much more accurate data about the aforementioned study, in order to accept its effectiveness and validity. Also, the fact that faculty retention is higher when professors are offered free tuition for their college-aged children does not ensure that no other elements have contributed to this result. Perhaps, there are rewarding programs inside the university or other sorts of bonus of productivity that have led to the increased retention. The writer should have stated that among all other factors studied, free tuition for the professors’ children was the only one that have contributed to the higher retention.

Additionally, the author too hastily assumes that Seatown University should also institute a free-tuition policy for its professors. The potential advantages of that policy in Oceania University, do not casual correlate to some similar positive results at Seatown University. Therefore, the author fails to establish an analogy between the two institutions, rendering the whole assumption as ambiguous that also lacks validity. He or she should have quoted detailed information about the ranks and organization charts of both universities in order to convince the audiences. For instance, if both of them have the same number of professors and faculty members, also how many students each of them has and even how much is the funding from the state.

Moreover, the concept that enhanced moral among the faculty and new lured professors will come as a result of the free-tuition policy is unwarranted as presented. Nothing ensures that people will swift attitudes in favor of a moral one inside the university and also there is no pertinent evidence that new professors will be eager to join Seatown University. The evidence as provided is scant and lacks substantiation. The author should have implied specific surveys and data that could lead to these two results. For example, statistics that strongly connect moral and free-tuition policies for the college-aged children of the professors in the universities. Apart from that, surveys and evidence that many new professors or even disappointed professors from other neighboring universities are looking for new job posts. The latter one could be conducted by the local job centers or the national institutions for education and employability affairs.

The argument is weak since neither is the conclusion sound, nor is the suggestion legitimate. Had there been substantial evidence, perhaps, the argument would have sounded more credible, but in its absence, it sounds indefensible.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, look, moreover, so, therefore, apart from, for example, for instance, as a result

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 11.1786427146 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 28.8173652695 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 30.0 16.3942115768 183% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2760.0 2260.96107784 122% => OK
No of words: 504.0 441.139720559 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.47619047619 5.12650576532 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73813722054 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.05212069873 2.78398813304 110% => OK
Unique words: 240.0 204.123752495 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.47619047619 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 881.1 705.55239521 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 15.0 8.76447105788 171% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.1507085853 57.8364921388 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 125.454545455 119.503703932 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.9090909091 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.09090909091 5.70786347227 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.474972141382 0.218282227539 218% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.130588697226 0.0743258471296 176% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.134802992775 0.0701772020484 192% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.26902652083 0.128457276422 209% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.159540232371 0.0628817314937 254% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 14.3799401198 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.3550499002 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.8 12.5979740519 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.99 8.32208582834 108% => OK
difficult_words: 136.0 98.500998004 138% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => 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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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 504 350
No. of Characters: 2685 1500
No. of Different Words: 232 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.738 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.327 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.929 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 201 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 165 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 115 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 81 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.909 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.156 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.455 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.308 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.51 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.089 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5