The author of a letter to the school board in the town of Centerville suggests that high school should provide driving courses. He advises such an argument due to several traffic incidents involving young drivers happened in the past two years and a number of complaints from parents were recieved that there should be some actions to be done in order to ensure teenagers are safe drivers. Ostensibly this argument is justifiable, at the first glance, but is flawed to be supported when fully examine the hidden assumptions that the author made in his statement.
Given young drivers were involved in several car incidents in recent two years, the author implies that teenagers behave less satisfactory as adults do. Obviously, he makes this claim fallaciously as he fails to consider how are those youths got involved in a car accidents. Possibilities of that the youngsters were crashed by a careless mature drivers, which the teens were doing nothing improper when driving cannot be completely ruled-out. The author is also not mentioning the exact number of car accidents that involved young drivers. Perhaps the ratio of accidents caused by young drivers is much lower than that of experienced drivers. These evidences are not cogent enough to examine the seriousness of young driving.
Other than the misclaim of young driver accident rate, the author also states the complaints from parents in substantiations of the nesscesity of providing driving courses by high schools. He also ignore the the actual number of complaints, as there may be in fact only one to two complaints received. A few parents are busy and have no spare time in teaching their children to drive, while other parents may have spent lots of time and efforts in instructing their children how to drive safely. If driving courses are offered in school, it may be duplicated with the parents' one and become unesscesary.
Moreover, the author does not clarify all the uncertains if schools provide driving courses. For instance, who will be teaching the courses? Are the existing teachers all experienced and safe drivers and are capable to teach others to drive? If the driving schools are regulated by the government in Centerville, will the courses offered in college also be supervised? Without clear and thorough planning, this suggestion is not likely to be supported.
To conclude, colleges offering driving tutorials may help improving and ensuring students' driving skills, but there are still many uncertains and potential drawbacks. More studies and plans are required to make this proposal strongly convincing.
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 421 350
No. of Characters: 2137 1500
No. of Different Words: 213 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.53 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.076 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.647 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 170 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 133 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 81 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 49 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.05 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.393 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.294 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.531 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.085 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 347, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'driver'?
Suggestion: driver
...sters were crashed by a careless mature drivers, which the teens were doing nothing imp...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 198, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[3]
Message: The pronoun 'He' must be used with a third-person verb: 'ignores'.
Suggestion: ignores
...riving courses by high schools. He also ignore the the actual number of complaints, as...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 205, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...courses by high schools. He also ignore the the actual number of complaints, as there m...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 205, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...courses by high schools. He also ignore the the actual number of complaints, as there m...
^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 59, Rule ID: ADVISE_VBG[5]
Message: The verb 'help' is used with infinitive: 'to improve' or 'improve'.
Suggestion: to improve; improve
...ges offering driving tutorials may help improving and ensuring students driving skills, b...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, moreover, so, still, while, for instance, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.6327345309 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 55.5748502994 97% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2188.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 421.0 441.139720559 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.19714964371 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52971130743 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.73810851203 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 220.0 204.123752495 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.522565320665 0.468620217663 112% => OK
syllable_count: 666.0 705.55239521 94% => 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: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.3935977633 57.8364921388 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.4 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.05 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.8 5.70786347227 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.271057136367 0.218282227539 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0733414583805 0.0743258471296 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.052985700881 0.0701772020484 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136516689308 0.128457276422 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0754103251804 0.0628817314937 120% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.3799401198 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.88 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.58 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 98.500998004 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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