The following appeared in a letter to the editor of the Balmer Island Gazette.
"On Balmer Island, where mopeds serve as a popular form of transportation, the population increases to 100,000 during the summer months. To reduce the number of accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians, the town council of Balmer Island should limit the number of mopeds rented by the island's moped rental companies from 50 per day to 25 per day during the summer season. By limiting the number of rentals, the town council will attain the 50 percent annual reduction in moped accidents that was achieved last year on the neighboring island of Seaville, when Seaville's town council enforced similar limits on moped rentals."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The above statement claims that by reducing the number of vehicles rented to half, the number of accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians will also be reduced by 50 percent annually. To support the argument, an example of Seaville Island, who also has enforced a similar law, is provided alongside. Even though the proposal sounds attractive, it is based on assumptions and provides no solid evidence. The claim is hence unconvincing and is fallacious.
First of all, the traffic rules and their implementation are one of the most important factors when it comes to road accidents. The judicial authorities of Balmer Island should firstly observe and study the traffic system of the town. There is a fair chance that the traffic rules of the place are not very much effective. Even if the rules are efficient, there is a good chance that the traffic police of the town are not efficient. Drunken driving, signal breaking and over speeding are some of the most infamous reasons of road accidents. So, it is very important to make certain that the traffic system of the Island is efficient and aptly functional. But, the above claim fails to consider this issue and the argument is just based on assumptions.
Secondly, the argument makes a claim that mopeds are the most popular means of transport in the island and by limiting the number of mopeds in tourist season, that is, the summer season, the number of accidents can be limited. However, it is quite possible that many accidents take place in winter season due to poor weather conditions. Also, there is a fair chance that the number of mopeds is already below twenty five. In this case, the new rule will not provide any benefits. So, it would be prudent to study these aspects and provide statistics regarding number of accidents by mopeds in each season and also regarding the number of mopeds rented by tourists.
The argument advocates limiting the number of mopeds. If the amount of mopeds on road is checked, there will be other vehicles used as an alternative. But there is a possibility that this alternative prove to be more risky than mopeds. The argument however fails to consider this aspect. Had there was a suggestion of less risky means of transportation as an alternate of mopeds, the argument would have been more convincing.
Finally, the argument claims that Seaville Island limited the number of road accidents by limiting the number of mopeds and by implementing similar policies in Balmer Island, accidents in this place can also be checked. This statement is again a weak and baseless claim, failing to provide any correlation between the two islands. There is a good chance that the infrastructure of Seaville Island is completely different from that of Balmer’s. There might be more moped users in Seaville than Balmer, hence resulting in this dramatic decrease of accidents by enacting the above mentioned policy. The argument however provides no data about any of the above said aspects and therefore has no strength in its claim.
In conclusion, it can only be said that, the argument is based on mere assumptions and lacks much needed evidences. It therefore requires an elaborate study and investigation to have a more cognizant approach towards the matter, providing a strong bastion to the claim made.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 169, Rule ID: THE_FALL_SEASON[1]
Message: Use simply 'summer'.
Suggestion: summer
...r of mopeds in tourist season, that is, the summer season, the number of accidents can be limited...
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Line 5, column 417, Rule ID: CD_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun 'five' seems to be countable, so consider using: 'fives'.
Suggestion: fives
...umber of mopeds is already below twenty five. In this case, the new rule will not pr...
^^^^
Line 7, column 299, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'been'.
Suggestion: been
...ails to consider this aspect. Had there was a suggestion of less risky means of tra...
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Line 9, column 124, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...nts by limiting the number of mopeds and by implementing similar policies in Balm...
^^
Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'finally', 'first', 'firstly', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'regarding', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'therefore', 'in conclusion', 'first of all']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.255319148936 0.25644967241 100% => OK
Verbs: 0.152209492635 0.15541462614 98% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0818330605565 0.0836205057962 98% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0605564648118 0.0520304965353 116% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0147299509002 0.0272364105082 54% => OK
Prepositions: 0.124386252046 0.125424944231 99% => OK
Participles: 0.0425531914894 0.0416121511921 102% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.70418261562 2.79052419416 97% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0196399345336 0.026700313972 74% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.127659574468 0.113004496875 113% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0163666121113 0.0255425247493 64% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00490998363339 0.0127820249294 38% => Some subClauses wanted starting by 'Which, Who, What, Whom, Whose.....'
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3308.0 2731.13054187 121% => OK
No of words: 553.0 446.07635468 124% => OK
Chars per words: 5.98191681736 6.12365571057 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.84932490483 4.57801047555 106% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.368896925859 0.378187486979 98% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.278481012658 0.287650121315 97% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.197106690778 0.208842608468 94% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.115732368897 0.135150697306 86% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70418261562 2.79052419416 97% => OK
Unique words: 243.0 207.018472906 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.439421338156 0.469332199767 94% => OK
Word variations: 51.596152949 52.1807786196 99% => OK
How many sentences: 27.0 20.039408867 135% => OK
Sentence length: 20.4814814815 23.2022227129 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.559935275 57.7814097925 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.518518519 141.986410481 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.4814814815 23.2022227129 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.555555555556 0.724660767414 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.14285714286 117% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 3.58251231527 112% => OK
Readability: 48.3295827473 51.9672348444 93% => OK
Elegance: 1.85611510791 1.8405768891 101% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.547990898821 0.441005458295 124% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.114385194665 0.135418324435 84% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.087801654115 0.0829849096947 106% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.566762125709 0.58762219726 96% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.133607945095 0.147661913831 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.237500976791 0.193483328276 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.108491085853 0.0970749176394 112% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.420816293076 0.42659136922 99% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0790232894216 0.0774707102158 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.38731517669 0.312017818177 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0754328805528 0.0698173142475 108% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.33743842365 96% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 16.0 6.87684729064 233% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.82512315271 62% => OK
Positive topic words: 5.0 6.46551724138 77% => OK
Negative topic words: 15.0 5.36822660099 279% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.82389162562 106% => OK
Total topic words: 23.0 14.657635468 157% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 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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