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 the assumptions and what the implications are if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
Several charitable organizations in Pleasantville provide opportunities for teenagers to engage in community service. These organizations have a great need for volunteers, but in recent years, the number of teenage volunteers has significantly declined. The pleasantville School Board should take measures to increase the number of volunteers. Teachers, parents, and other community members agree that it is important for young people to learn the value of community service. Requiring high school students to engage in community service would provide much-needed assistance to worthy local charities and would also help young people understand the importance of giving back to their community. For this reason, the Pleasantville School Board should institute a program requiring students of Pleasantville High School to complete 40 hours of community service prior to graduation.
This argument says about the needs of volunteers in the charitable organizations and how helpful the community serving is for college students in future. Requiring high education students have to engage in this type of services like Charitable trusts or other organization that works for society. For young people to understand the importance of giving back to their community is very necessary.
The argument assumes that teenage students have significant time energy so that they can definitely serve in any organization. But with their studies they have other extra-curricular activities like in any sports or leading any other small events, students council etc. with both volunteering and studies are necessary but only one can be performed well. For instance, a typical high school student may also have load of their subjects like English, Mathematics, and Science. Teenagers are now also aware and they are also working for this type of charitable organization. It is not necessary to work as volunteer in any organization. She/he can also work passively and individually as they want.
It is important to investigate that number of number of teenagers are decreased. As population increases retired people are also wanted to do something for that society and with this they are also working in any organization. It is not necessary to that volunteer should be teenager. Retired people can also serve well and do something for that society. They also need some work to do when they are free. While it may be possible that in Pleasantville high school students is less enthusiastic about volunteering. Making a claim without any proof is just an assumption.
Secondly, by giving a statistical number of 40 hours that is approximately a full week. Does all the charitable organization have that much of space or work for all the college students? It is also important to remember that volunteer also needs to be trained before working and for that paid employees are needed. Prior to that graduation it is necessary to work with any social work but 40 hours requirement would not be feasible for all the busy students. The students are required to complete 40 hours of community service. The author does not show any opinion of the students about such a decision. The student’s views should have been taken by the author. This may be one of the reasons why students are back tracking such a noble work.
Thirdly, the author here has also not described the type of work that the volunteer need to do. It is more important to describe the type of work and seriousness of that task. If any tasks that would be better done by the people who have better understanding about that proper work. The author needs to mention the work to done.
In general, it may be said that the writer has failed to make a convincing argument because of absence of data. No convincing reason is given. So that this assumptions are not enough to provide and support their proposal. Writer fails to provide holistic picture of the situation stated.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 144, Rule ID: IN_PAST[1]
Message: Did you mean: 'in the future'?
Suggestion: in the future
...mmunity serving is for college students in future. Requiring high education students have...
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Line 5, column 37, Rule ID: PHRASE_REPETITION[1]
Message: This phrase is duplicated. You should probably leave only 'number of'.
Suggestion: number of
... It is important to investigate that number of number of teenagers are decreased. As population ...
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Line 7, column 606, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... of the students about such a decision. The student's views should have been t...
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Line 9, column 177, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...e of work and seriousness of that task. If any tasks that would be better done by ...
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Line 11, column 152, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
... No convincing reason is given. So that this assumptions are not enough to provide a...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'if', 'may', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'third', 'thirdly', 'thus', 'well', 'while', 'for instance', 'in general']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.216606498195 0.25644967241 84% => OK
Verbs: 0.182310469314 0.15541462614 117% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0794223826715 0.0836205057962 95% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0685920577617 0.0520304965353 132% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0342960288809 0.0272364105082 126% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.120938628159 0.125424944231 96% => OK
Participles: 0.0487364620939 0.0416121511921 117% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.83050336993 2.79052419416 101% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0361010830325 0.026700313972 135% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.102888086643 0.113004496875 91% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0216606498195 0.0255425247493 85% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0126353790614 0.0127820249294 99% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3044.0 2731.13054187 111% => OK
No of words: 510.0 446.07635468 114% => OK
Chars per words: 5.96862745098 6.12365571057 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75217629947 4.57801047555 104% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.329411764706 0.378187486979 87% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.262745098039 0.287650121315 91% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.196078431373 0.208842608468 94% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.141176470588 0.135150697306 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.83050336993 2.79052419416 101% => OK
Unique words: 219.0 207.018472906 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.429411764706 0.469332199767 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 49.0302039282 52.1807786196 94% => OK
How many sentences: 33.0 20.039408867 165% => OK
Sentence length: 15.4545454545 23.2022227129 67% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.1681475273 57.7814097925 56% => OK
Chars per sentence: 92.2424242424 141.986410481 65% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.4545454545 23.2022227129 67% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.424242424242 0.724660767414 59% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.14285714286 117% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 3.58251231527 140% => OK
Readability: 41.7290552585 51.9672348444 80% => OK
Elegance: 1.35443037975 1.8405768891 74% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.354332019302 0.441005458295 80% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.0991495983828 0.135418324435 73% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0674323568283 0.0829849096947 81% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.467102567517 0.58762219726 79% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.125689783394 0.147661913831 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.124635660404 0.193483328276 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0984190835105 0.0970749176394 101% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.393996710062 0.42659136922 92% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0942655989019 0.0774707102158 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.245658191421 0.312017818177 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0927945948656 0.0698173142475 133% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 20.0 8.33743842365 240% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.87684729064 44% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.82512315271 207% => Less neutral sentences wanted.
Positive topic words: 17.0 6.46551724138 263% => OK
Negative topic words: 3.0 5.36822660099 56% => OK
Neutral topic words: 7.0 2.82389162562 248% => OK
Total topic words: 27.0 14.657635468 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 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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