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 topic is about the homework assignment to the high school students should no more than twice a week, science Marlee district assigns less homework than Sanlee district yet perform better. The argument is flawed for the following reasons.
First of all, the author provides information about two districts in Attra state, that students in the Marlee perform better than Sanlee district, even though Marlee students complete fewer assignments. The author compares a portion to the whole. It might be possible that one or two schools have been surveyed, and the opinion of the author will be flawed if only a certain school performs below the Marlee school. It might be possible that other schools in Sanlee are better than Marlee.
Another reason the author opinion is flawed because it might be a possibility that only some subjects teacher give assignments to the Sanlee students and other teacher does not homework at all. Whereas in Marlee every teacher gives homework, so the students perform overall good. It might also possible that Sanlee state has more school than Marlee, so the percentage of the teacher is higher and the percentage of students complete their high school is lower comparing to the Marklee. It is also possible that other seventy-five percent of teachers in the Marlee give assignment same like Sanlee district. That would weaken the author arguments.
The following argument is based on unwarranted reasons and failed to provide any convincing data that proves less amount of assignment is a key to success for the high school students.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
flaws:
No. of Words: 257 350
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.0 out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 12 15
No. of Words: 257 350
No. of Characters: 1288 1500
No. of Different Words: 119 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.004 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.012 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.42 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 110 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 71 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 46 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 17 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.417 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.766 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.417 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.41 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.533 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.106 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 3 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 94, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'subjects'' or 'subject's'?
Suggestion: subjects'; subject's
...t might be a possibility that only some subjects teacher give assignments to the Sanlee ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, so, whereas, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 28.8173652695 49% => OK
Preposition: 23.0 55.5748502994 41% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1319.0 2260.96107784 58% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 257.0 441.139720559 58% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13229571984 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.00390054096 4.56307096286 88% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47643896111 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 128.0 204.123752495 63% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.498054474708 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 392.4 705.55239521 56% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 19.7664670659 61% => 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: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.960671863 57.8364921388 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.916666667 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4166666667 23.324526521 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.5 5.70786347227 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.274121251535 0.218282227539 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.102693630506 0.0743258471296 138% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0696848791105 0.0701772020484 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.178189075834 0.128457276422 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0367648599477 0.0628817314937 58% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.4 14.3799401198 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.87 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 52.0 98.500998004 53% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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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