Tusk University should build a new recreational facility, both to attract new students and to better serve the needs of our current student body. Tusk projects that enrollment will double over the next 10 years, based on current trends. The new student body is expected to reflect a much higher percentage of commuter students than we currently enroll. This will make the existing facilities inadequate. Moreover, the cost of health and recreation club membership in our community has increased rapidly in recent years. Thus, students will find it much more advantageous to make use of the facilities on campus. Finally, an attractive new recreation center would make prospective students, especially athletically gifted ones, more likely to enroll at Tusk.
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 the implications are for the arguments if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The author’s conclusion is that building a new recreation center in Tusk University will bring new students and serve better current students. The author is basing his conclusion on few assumptions, for which there is no clear evidence.
First of all, the author is assuming that there is a strong link between students commuting and inadequacy of existing facilities. This assumption is unconvincing, since there is no clear previous evidence that these two variables have significant correlation. Moreover, the term ‘inadequacy in facilities’ is highly ambiguous. What does inadequacy ...
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 24 15
No. of Words: 524 350
No. of Characters: 2811 1500
No. of Different Words: 238 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.784 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.365 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.002 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 209 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 178 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 147 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 94 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.833 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.74 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.625 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.312 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.503 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.099 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 686, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'have', 'haven'.
Suggestion: have; haven
...he health of the students? Both options has completely different linkage and usage ...
^^^
Line 13, column 762, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... specific professors' research etc. If one of these scenarios has merit, the...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, may, moreover, regarding, second, secondly, so, still, then, thus, well, while, as to, in addition, in conclusion, in fact, kind of, such as, as well as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 55.5748502994 115% => OK
Nominalization: 33.0 16.3942115768 201% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2927.0 2260.96107784 129% => OK
No of words: 524.0 441.139720559 119% => OK
Chars per words: 5.5858778626 5.12650576532 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.7844588288 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.22276660324 2.78398813304 116% => OK
Unique words: 249.0 204.123752495 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.475190839695 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 921.6 705.55239521 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 2.70958083832 295% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.8388471074 57.8364921388 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.08 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.96 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.8 5.70786347227 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 8.20758483034 183% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.273777478338 0.218282227539 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0776758983448 0.0743258471296 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.10693236967 0.0701772020484 152% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.191305218898 0.128457276422 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.107985270913 0.0628817314937 172% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 14.3799401198 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 34.26 48.3550499002 71% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.5 12.197005988 111% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.14 12.5979740519 120% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 98.500998004 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.9071856287 134% => 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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