In surveys Mason City residents rank water sports (swimming, boating and fishing) among their favorite recreational activities. The Mason River flowing through the city is rarely used for these pursuits,
however, and the city park department devotes little of its budget to maintaining riverside recreational facilities. For years there have been complaints from residents about the quality of the river's water
and the river's smell. In response, the state has recently announced plans to clean up Mason River. Use of the river for water sports is therefore sure to increase. The city government should for that
reason devote more money in this year's budget to riverside recreational facilities.
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 the assumptions and what the implications are if the
assumptions prove unwarranted.
I think argument has many unstated assumption that are flawed and if they do not hold true, can falter the decision of the government to devote more money in this year's budget to river side
recreational activities.
First assumption is that survey was taken recently and majority of the people were inolved in the decision. Now, if the survey was taken a long time ago and in the mean time the preference of people for
water sports has changed. Then, the state would be in a loss. Since people would not do water sports and hence giving loss to the state. Also what if only rich people voted for the decision and other
people were not in favour of the water sports. Then also state would be in state of loss. Because how many people are rich and how many are poor are not mentioned. Thus, until the people' preference and who of all were involved in the decision are not mentioned, it would be foolish to take decision.
Second assumption is that after the river is cleaned it will increase the water sports in the city. What are various factors that the city has considered to reach this decision? Suppose people are claiming to
clean the river to make their city look clean or they are just disturbed by the smell and litter. If this is the case then allocating the budget for the water sports is not justified. So until and unless state
mention its factor to reach this decision. It is difficult to take decision.
Third assumption is that, state is asumming river will not be dirtied again and increasing the bugdet would make the river clean. As mentioned in the question, that state has been allocating funds for the
river and it is only now state is planning to increase the funds for the river. What if people are careless and throw litter in the river and making it dirty, even after the river has been cleaned. So, until
the laws are not stringent they will keep doing that.
Following are the assumption that has been assumed, and until these assumption are not stated clearly in the argument, it is difficult to take decision.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...in this year's budget to river side recreational activities. First assum...
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Suggestion: Recreational
...is year's budget to river side recreational activities. First assumption is tha...
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...e mean time the preference of people for water sports has changed. Then, the stat...
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...n time the preference of people for water sports has changed. Then, the state wou...
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...ople would not do water sports and hence giving loss to the state. Also what if o...
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...ts and hence giving loss to the state. Also what if only rich people voted for the ...
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... people voted for the decision and other people were not in favour of the water s...
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...le voted for the decision and other people were not in favour of the water sports....
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...decision? Suppose people are claiming to clean the river to make their city look ...
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...ion? Suppose people are claiming to clean the river to make their city look clean...
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...not justified. So until and unless state mention its factor to reach this decisio...
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Suggestion: Mention
...ustified. So until and unless state mention its factor to reach this decision. It i...
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... state has been allocating funds for the river and it is only now state is planni...
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...e has been allocating funds for the river and it is only now state is planning to...
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...er the river has been cleaned. So, until the laws are not stringent they will kee...
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...e river has been cleaned. So, until the laws are not stringent they will keep d...
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...ot stringent they will keep doing that. Following are the assumption that has be...
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...mption that has been assumed, and until these assumption are not stated clearly in the argument,...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'first', 'hence', 'if', 'look', 'second', 'so', 'then', 'third', 'thus', 'i think']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.21921182266 0.240241500013 91% => OK
Verbs: 0.214285714286 0.157235817809 136% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0665024630542 0.0880659088768 76% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0665024630542 0.0497285424764 134% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0295566502463 0.0444667217837 66% => OK
Prepositions: 0.105911330049 0.12292977631 86% => OK
Participles: 0.0714285714286 0.0406280797675 176% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.30941173493 2.79330140395 83% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0270935960591 0.030933414821 88% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.103448275862 0.0997080785238 104% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0221674876847 0.0249443105267 89% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0197044334975 0.0148568991511 133% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2097.0 2732.02544248 77% => OK
No of words: 368.0 452.878318584 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.69836956522 6.0361032391 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37987740619 4.58838876751 95% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.258152173913 0.366273622748 70% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.171195652174 0.280924506359 61% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.138586956522 0.200843997647 69% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.0923913043478 0.132149295362 70% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.30941173493 2.79330140395 83% => OK
Unique words: 158.0 219.290929204 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.429347826087 0.48968727796 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 44.172590649 55.4138127331 80% => OK
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6194690265 97% => OK
Sentence length: 18.4 23.380412469 79% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.4580186835 59.4972553346 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.85 141.124799967 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.4 23.380412469 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.55 0.674092028746 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 12.0 4.94800884956 243% => OK
Language errors: 18.0 5.21349557522 345% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 35.5195652174 51.4728631049 69% => OK
Elegance: 1.27777777778 1.64882698954 77% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.340189707435 0.391690518653 87% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.163739464842 0.123202303941 133% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0939205107589 0.077325440228 121% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.647465076708 0.547984918172 118% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.236407253699 0.149214159877 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.153746626933 0.161403998019 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0841995269881 0.0892212321368 94% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.204974329401 0.385218514788 53% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.163237124068 0.0692045440612 236% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.183599473386 0.275328986314 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0896049108525 0.0653680567796 137% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.4325221239 86% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.30420353982 151% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.88274336283 61% => OK
Positive topic words: 8.0 7.22455752212 111% => OK
Negative topic words: 7.0 3.66592920354 191% => OK
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.70907079646 74% => OK
Total topic words: 17.0 13.5995575221 125% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.