Argument : 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.
In the argument the author, Central Plaza store owner, claims in the letter to the editor that in Central Plaza number of shoppers has be gone down due to the skateboarding users. Therefore, the letter writer wants to prohibit skateboarding. The author thinks that by prohibiting skateboarding they will again reach to their high level business which was before two years. Though his claim may well have merit, the author presents a poorly reasoned argument. Based on the several questionable premises and the assumptions, we cannot accept that his argument is valid. Hence, the argument is unconvin...
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Sentence: If the author truly wants to change the reader's mind about the issue then author should has to mentioned relevant facts and show some evidneces which can prove his point.
Description: The token to is not usually followed by a verb, past participle
Suggestion: Refer to to and mentioned
Sentence: Clearly, argument would have been much clearer if the author has explicitely stated that there has been this new mall kind of situation in nearer area.
Error: explicitely Suggestion: explicitly
Sentence: The author assumes that those skateboard users are spoilling the plaza.
Error: spoilling Suggestion: No alternate word
Sentence: If the author truly wants to change the reader's mind about the issue then author should has to mentioned relevant facts and show some evidneces which can prove his point.
Error: evidneces Suggestion: evidences
Sentence: Without these things his poorly reasoned argument will likely to convience few people.
Error: convience Suggestion: convince
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