In a recent citywide poll, 15 percent more residents said that they watch television programs about the visual arts than was the case in a poll conducted five years ago. During these past five years, the number of people visiting our city's art museums has increased by a similar percentage. Since the corporate funding that supports public television, where most of the visual arts programs appear, is now being threatened with severe cuts, we can expect that attendance at our city's art museums will also start to decrease. Thus some of the city's funds for supporting the arts should be reallocated to public television.”
The argument claims that some of the city’s funds for supporting the arts should be reallocated to public television as it is expected that the attendance at the art museums will start to decrease. The author fails to consider various key factors such as the type of participants involved in both polls, the type of visitors to museum to substantiate his line of reasoning. The conclusion at hand is not justified by proper evidences and merely provides improper correlation among the viewers of television, visitors of museum and corporate funding.
At the foremost, the author states that 15 pe...
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 422 350
No. of Characters: 2122 1500
No. of Different Words: 205 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.532 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.028 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.712 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 167 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 118 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 94 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 55 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.444 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.245 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.299 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.544 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.109 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 26, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
The argument claims that some of the city's funds for supporting the ar...
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Line 1, column 380, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... to substantiate his line of reasoning. The conclusion at hand is not justified by ...
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Line 3, column 133, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: However
...l arts than was the case five years ago.However, he misses out to provide crucial infor...
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Line 3, column 538, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Since
...sets of people to arrive at a consensus.Since the author has not provided this eviden...
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Line 9, column 246, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Since
...ctors before arriving at the conclusion.Since the essential points was missed out dur...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, lastly, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 55.5748502994 113% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2188.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 419.0 441.139720559 95% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.22195704057 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52432199235 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93072345284 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 210.0 204.123752495 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.501193317422 0.468620217663 107% => OK
syllable_count: 680.4 705.55239521 96% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 15.0 8.76447105788 171% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.5242411747 57.8364921388 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.555555556 119.503703932 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2777777778 23.324526521 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.5 5.70786347227 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
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: 0.23901303298 0.218282227539 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0677729603689 0.0743258471296 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0790149930766 0.0701772020484 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12124569146 0.128457276422 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.081436151758 0.0628817314937 130% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 14.3799401198 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.85 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 98.500998004 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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