The following appeared as a letter to the editor from a Central Plaza store owner.
"Over the past two years, the number of shoppers in Central Plaza has been steadily decreasing while the popularity of skateboarding has increased dramatically. Many Central Plaza store owners believe that the decrease in their business is due to the number of skateboard users in the plaza. There has also been a dramatic increase in the amount of litter and vandalism throughout the plaza. Thus, we recommend that the city prohibit skateboarding in Central Plaza. If skateboarding is prohibited here, we predict that business in Central Plaza will return to its previously high levels."
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 store owners of Central Plaza, believe and predict that, prohibiting skateboarding in the Plaza would revert their businesses to it's previously high levels. But, this argument is not complete enough to have the predicted result. Hence, the recommendation should be delineated to strengthen it's prediction.
Firstly, the store owners cannot relate the steadily decreasing shoppers with the increasing popularity of skateboarding. The decrease in costumers can be due to many other reasons like, the cost of the products sold in the Central Plaza have tremendously increased and that the shoppers cannot afford to buy those anymore, or, people who used to buy there on a regular basis have moved to another place, or the shoppers found another place, where the commodities were cheaper. Thus, stating that the cost of the products have remained the same or have decreased during the two years, will strengthen the argument.
Secondly, assuming that the reduction in the number of shoppers in the Central Plaza, is attributed to the increase in the amount of litter and vandalism throughout the Plaza, this litter and vandalism, cannot be related to the skateboarders. Therefore, explicitly mentioning that its the people who use the plaza for skateboarding, the ones who litter all around the plaza, would certainly strengthen the argument.
There is also another possibility that the people who used to purchace goods are now willing to spend it on skateboarding. Thus, adding these missing points to the recommendation, making it self-explanatory, is likely to strengthen the Central Plaza store owners' recommendation.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 281, Rule ID: IT_IS[17]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
.... Therefore, explicitly mentioning that its the people who use the plaza for skateb...
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Line 4, column 256, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'owners'' or 'owner's'?
Suggestion: owners'; owner's
...y to strengthen the Central Plaza store owners recommendation.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 19.6327345309 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 28.8173652695 56% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 55.5748502994 58% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalization wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1374.0 2260.96107784 61% => OK
No of words: 254.0 441.139720559 58% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.4094488189 5.12650576532 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.99216450694 4.56307096286 87% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0711487857 2.78398813304 110% => OK
Unique words: 137.0 204.123752495 67% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.53937007874 0.468620217663 115% => OK
syllable_count: 420.3 705.55239521 60% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Interrogative: 1.0 0.471057884232 212% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 19.7664670659 51% => Need more sentences, or put a space between two sentences.
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 79.6404419877 57.8364921388 138% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.4 119.503703932 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.4 23.324526521 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.7 5.70786347227 135% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.292494584362 0.218282227539 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110390990482 0.0743258471296 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0895326773964 0.0701772020484 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17105678825 0.128457276422 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0326377542643 0.0628817314937 52% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.8 14.3799401198 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 48.3550499002 78% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.197005988 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.39 12.5979740519 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.17 8.32208582834 110% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 98.500998004 70% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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 -- 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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