While the Department of Education in the state of Attra suggests 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, we recommend that all teachers in our high schools should assign homework no more than twice a week.
The author concludes that there is no more need of assigning homework to school students more than twice a week. The author made this conclusion based on the survey conducted in the two districts of state and by comparing their grades. As, only on the basis of a normal survey one cannot made this statement. Which leads to fallacious argument of the author due to following reasons;
Firstly, the author has made this assumption on the basis of the survey carried in two states, Sanlee and marlee. However, at the first sight the survey seems to support the argument, but really not because in the argument number of the students on which survey is conducted was not given. Moreover, the category of the students on which survey was conducted also not provided whether the selected students were seniors or juniors. And the main difference that might occur is status of the schools of the both states, as more developed the school is more will be the advancement in learning methods of the students.
Secondly, the author said that 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 overall performance of the students of district Marlee was more. This was totally a fatuous ststement as the result of the students not merely depend on the amount of homework assigned to them,but also on their surrounding environment , the way in which they were taught, etc.
Lastly, but not the least the method of studying of the students was not provided. And in the argument it was not provided about the subject on which survey was conducted for example some subjects like maths require more practice while others like english needs less. Therfore by just merely on the basis of survey provided one cannot say that less homework should be assigned to students.
In the sum the authors argument was based on the totally falacious premises. To prove the argument more data is need to be provide like the number of students on which survey was conducted, level of the students etc.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, moreover, really, second, secondly, so, whereas, while, as to, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 28.8173652695 45% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 55.5748502994 108% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1795.0 2260.96107784 79% => OK
No of words: 373.0 441.139720559 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.81233243968 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.39467950092 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.44871472011 2.78398813304 88% => OK
Unique words: 166.0 204.123752495 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.445040214477 0.468620217663 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 544.5 705.55239521 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.67365269461 358% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.8925158973 57.8364921388 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.666666667 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.8666666667 23.324526521 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.13333333333 5.70786347227 142% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.163741555984 0.218282227539 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0614105794445 0.0743258471296 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0356286334213 0.0701772020484 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.100743721146 0.128457276422 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0122855295504 0.0628817314937 20% => 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: 13.7 14.3799401198 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.3550499002 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.91 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.96 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 98.500998004 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.