While the Department of Education in the state of Attra recommends that high school students be assigned homework every day, the data from a recent statewide survey of high school math and science teachers give us reason to question the usefulness of daily homework. In the district of Sanlee, 86 percent of the teachers reported assigning homework three to five times a week, whereas in the district of Marlee, less than 25 percent of the teachers reported assigning homework three to five times a week. Yet the students in Marlee earn better grades overall and are less likely to be required to repeat a year of school than are the students in Sanlee. Therefore, all teachers in our high schools should assign homework no more than twice a week.
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 author conclude that the frequency of the homework has little to do with the overall grades of the students, and therefore suggest that all teachers in the high schools should assign homework no more than twice a week. Although the teacher shouldn't overload students by assigning too much homework, the argument is heavily rely on some underlying assumptions without any support. If the assumptions is proven unwanted, the credibility of the argument will be compromised as discussed below.
First of all, the author mentioned a set of data from a recent servey of high school math and science teachers to support the assumption that the teacher from the district of Marlee assigns less homework each week. However the survy is relied on some problematic assumption such as the frequecy of homework from math and science teachers will beable to reflect the overall workload students receieved everyweek. It is possible that teachers from other subject such as literature would prefere to assgin more homeworkn than the science and math teacher does. What is more, the arthors also assume that the number of home work the teacher assigned each week will be a good representation for the workload the student receieved. Although the teacher from Marlee assgin homework less frequnetly, it is possible the homework they assgin is much harder and the students from Marlee have to spend more time on homework each week than the students from Sanlee. If either situation turn out to be true, it is questionable to assums that the teacher from Marlee disctrict assign less homework than the teacher from Sanlee district.
Second, the author compare the overall grades and the chance to be required to repeat a year of school between the students from two district to support the assumption that the students in Marlee district preform better than the students in Sanlee district. If the exam provided in the Sanlee district is much harder than the exam from the Marlee district, there is no reason to believe the student in Marlee is better simply because the overall grades is higher. In addition, it is possible that the teacher more prefer to ask the student in Sanlee district to repeat a year of school because their higher requirement for graduation. If either situation is proved to be true, it is impossible to draw the conclusion that the student in Marlee is better that the student in Sanlee.
Last but not least, even if we assum that the students in Marlee receve less homework yet have a better result, it is hardly reasonable to assume that the light homework is the only reason why the students in Marlees is better. It is possible that because the teacher is more experienced in the Marlee and they can help the students to achieve a better result without having to assign too much homework. Or it is because the student in Marlee are more hardworking and take more practice and schoolworks even though the teacher didn't assgin them.
In general, although the homework may not bable to affact students' overall grade as the author conclued, the suggestion is relied on so many unreliable assumption. Therefore, it is reasonable to suggest that the teacher should assgin homework base need and the preformance of the students.
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Essay evaluation report
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: 18 15
No. of Words: 547 350
No. of Characters: 2656 1500
No. of Different Words: 202 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.836 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.856 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.503 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 227 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 151 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 99 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 39 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 30.389 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.327 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.778 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.411 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.622 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.183 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 12, Rule ID: MASS_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error - use third-person verb forms for singular and mass nouns: 'concludes'.
Suggestion: concludes
The author conclude that the frequency of the homework has ...
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Line 1, column 245, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: shouldn't
...than twice a week. Although the teacher shouldnt overload students by assigning too much...
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Line 1, column 328, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'relied'.
Suggestion: relied
... much homework, the argument is heavily rely on some underlying assumptions without ...
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Line 5, column 216, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...Marlee assigns less homework each week. However the survy is relied on some problematic...
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Line 13, column 528, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...and schoolworks even though the teacher didnt assgin them. In general, although...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, second, so, therefore, in addition, in general, such as, first of all, what is more
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.6327345309 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 55.5748502994 122% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2714.0 2260.96107784 120% => OK
No of words: 545.0 441.139720559 124% => OK
Chars per words: 4.97981651376 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.83169070408 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55535138918 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 204.123752495 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.388990825688 0.468620217663 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 813.6 705.55239521 115% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 2.70958083832 295% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 30.0 22.8473053892 131% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 38.715207399 57.8364921388 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 150.777777778 119.503703932 126% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.2777777778 23.324526521 130% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.61111111111 5.70786347227 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.264892605252 0.218282227539 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.105499901567 0.0743258471296 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0609025347999 0.0701772020484 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.153087856523 0.128457276422 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.070356239319 0.0628817314937 112% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.2 14.3799401198 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.49 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.2 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 98.500998004 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 11.1389221557 126% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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