The following appeared in a memo from the director of student housing at Buckingham College.
"To serve the housing needs of our students, Buckingham College should build a number of new dormitories. Buckingham's enrollment is growing and, based on current trends, will double over the next 50 years, thus making existing dormitory space inadequate. Moreover, the average rent for an apartment in our town has risen in recent years. Consequently, students will find it increasingly difficult to afford off-campus housing. Finally, attractive new dormitories would make prospective students more likely to enroll at Buckingham."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
Buckingham college is planning to build more number of dormitories to serve a better housing needs of the students, expecting the growth in enrollment and various other factors. Stated in this manner, the argument fails to mention several other factors as well as support the given reasons, on basis of which it could be evaluated. The conclusion relies upon assumptions, for which there is no clear evidence. thus, the argument is unconvincing, weak and has several flaws.
Firstly, argument mentions that based on current trends, the enrollment of new students is growing and is expected to be do...
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 531 350
No. of Characters: 2646 1500
No. of Different Words: 225 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.8 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.983 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.692 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 191 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 158 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 99 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 57 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.947 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.39 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.789 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.314 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.55 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.077 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 411, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Thus
..., for which there is no clear evidence. thus, the argument is unconvincing, weak and...
^^^^
Line 3, column 460, Rule ID: LITTLE_BIT[1]
Message: Reduce redundancy by using 'little' or 'bit'.
Suggestion: little; bit
...te growth of 100% in next 50 years is a little bit of stretch. Also, the increase in numbe...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 524, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...lso, the increase in number of students doesnt imply that number of dormitories requir...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 634, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: They
...ot all students require dormitory stay. they might stay off-Campus or the town might...
^^^^
Line 3, column 756, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
... no requirement of the housing service. Hence before correlating the increase in enro...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 924, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: How
... many students need dormitory services? how many students are from local place? etc...
^^^
Line 3, column 964, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Etc
...how many students are from local place? etc. thus further analyzing the factor will...
^^^
Line 5, column 295, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...for the dormitories will also increase. Also if average rent of apartments are high ...
^^^^
Line 5, column 344, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...verage rent of apartments are high that doesnt imply that there are no apartments will...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 727, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: How
...looking for off-campus housing service? how many housing services are present in ne...
^^^
Line 5, column 768, Rule ID: NEAR_BY[1]
Message: Did you mean 'nearby'?
Suggestion: nearby
...ow many housing services are present in near by area of buckingham college? etc. which ...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 804, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Etc
... in near by area of buckingham college? etc. which might give proper and accurate i...
^^^
Line 7, column 294, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Students
...ance of the housing services is absurd. students enroll in college based on various othe...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, if, look, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, third, thirdly, thus, well, whereas, while, in summary, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.9520958084 139% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 78.0 55.5748502994 140% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2716.0 2260.96107784 120% => OK
No of words: 529.0 441.139720559 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.13421550095 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.79583152331 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.784402161 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 236.0 204.123752495 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.446124763705 0.468620217663 95% => OK
syllable_count: 828.0 705.55239521 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 19.7664670659 137% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 50.8274738578 57.8364921388 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.592592593 119.503703932 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5925925926 23.324526521 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.92592592593 5.70786347227 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 13.0 5.25449101796 247% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 8.20758483034 183% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.198737097851 0.218282227539 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.056998084 0.0743258471296 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0765721438486 0.0701772020484 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110410884827 0.128457276422 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0673183281469 0.0628817314937 107% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.3799401198 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.1 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 98.500998004 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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