The following is part of a memorandum from the president of Humana University.
"Last year the number of students who enrolled in online degree programs offered by nearby Omni University increased by 50 percent. During the same year, Omni showed a significant decrease from prior years in expenditures for dormitory and classroom space, most likely because online instruction takes place via the Internet. In contrast, over the past three years, enrollment at Humana University has failed to grow and the cost of maintaining buildings has increased. Thus, to increase enrollment and solve the problem of budget deficits at Humana University, we should initiate and actively promote online degree programs like those at Omni."
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.
According to the memorandum by the president of Humana University, the university authority should launch and promote online education programs to enrich the number of entry students and fix the expenditure issues. The conclusion is based on the comparison to the Omni University which has achieved higher enrollment and reduced expenses after initiating online courses. Although the conclusion sounds logical at a first glance, before accepting it true, three specific assumptions need to evaluated and warranted to make his claim true.
First of all, it might not be a reasonable assumption to conclude that following the trends of Omni University will result in increasing enrollment for Humana university. It may be possible that the courses offered by the Omni university are theoretical, not lab based. Therefore, they find it possible to start online degree programs. However, the Humana University may have the popularity for its' lab infrastructure and up-to-date lab equipment. Therefore, the initialization of online degree offerings might defame their reputations and students may not be keen like before to admit in Humana University. If any of the above consequences becomes true, the argument as a whole will not hold water.
Secondly, it is assumed that online teaching is the possible reason behind the sharp decrease of expenditures for Omni University. However, it may be possible that the rental fees of the nearby apartments of the Omni university is cheap and that's why students don't feel the necessity to stay in the dormitory. In accordance, while there is less classroom expenses, the authority needs to pay a significant amount to individual student to avail the internet packs and required devices, which cumulatively surplus the total classroom costs. If any of the above points is true, the claim of the author will be seriously weakened.
Finally, it has been assumed that online education will solve the budget deficits for the Humana University by restricting the building maintenance costs. However, it is reasonable to predict that Humana university has not launched online program yet and its' faculty members as well as students need sufficient training and online resources to make the plan doable. It may result an additional cost to the university to arrange the training programs. Moreover, they may need to buy online subscriptions like zoom, google meet or Microsoft team for conducting the online classes. They may need to pay the "ProctorU" to monitor flawlessly during the exam. All these actions may result a manifold price increase for the Humana University which the argument fails to consider.
To summarize, the plan of the president of Humana university is justified enough to increase enrollment and reduce costs. However, the assumptions which it is based on are logically flawed and we can't vie with them without further evidence.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 8 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 21 15
No. of Words: 458 350
No. of Characters: 2381 1500
No. of Different Words: 225 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.626 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.199 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.829 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 190 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 139 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 112 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 75 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.81 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.85 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.857 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.319 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.52 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.069 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Did you mean 'trues'?
Suggestion: trues
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Line 5, column 242, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: that's
...nts of the Omni university is cheap and thats why students dont feel the necessity to...
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Line 5, column 261, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
...versity is cheap and thats why students dont feel the necessity to stay in the dormi...
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Line 9, column 197, Rule ID: CANT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
Suggestion: can't; cannot
...is based on are logically flawed and we cant vie with them without further evidence....
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, while, as well as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 55.5748502994 104% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2448.0 2260.96107784 108% => OK
No of words: 457.0 441.139720559 104% => OK
Chars per words: 5.35667396061 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62358717085 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97536035223 2.78398813304 107% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 204.123752495 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.490153172867 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 793.8 705.55239521 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.2428067722 57.8364921388 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.571428571 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7619047619 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.42857142857 5.70786347227 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => 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: 0.287463484219 0.218282227539 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0882397437211 0.0743258471296 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0662180347296 0.0701772020484 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.161554738403 0.128457276422 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.039199997929 0.0628817314937 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.3550499002 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.5979740519 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.82 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 120.0 98.500998004 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.5 12.3882235529 125% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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