Argument Topic:
The following appeared in a memorandum written by the chairperson of the West Egg Town Council.
"Two years ago, consultants predicted that West Egg's landfill, which is used for garbage disposal, would
be completely filled within five years. During the past two years, however, the town's residents have
been recycling twice as much material as they did in previous years. Next month the amount of recycled
material—which includes paper, plastic, and metal—should further increase, since charges for pickup of
other household garbage will double. Furthermore, over 90 percent of the respondents to a recent
survey said that they would do more recycling in the future. Because of our town's strong commitment
to recycling, the available space in our landfill should last for considerably longer than predicted."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and
explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The chairperson of the west egg town council in his memorandum concludes that the because of the
town's strong commitment to recycling, the available space in their landfill will last for considerably
longer period. It leaves so many questions unanswered and without knowing these answers one can't
accede to it.
Firstly, the chairperson is saying that two years ago, consultants predicted that landfill will be full with
garbage in two years and as we don't know about consultants but it may happen that they are saying
this on so many other factors which the chairperson was not able to recognize and it may be true that it
is a high time for searching for the new way of garbage disposal. He is further saying that recycling have
been twice but of how much's? For example before two years ago if recycling was only 2% of the total
garbage than twice recycling will not improve the condition in an effective way and even it is not
specified that how much tons of garbage is being recycled?
Secondly, the chairperson is telling that recycling will increase because of the charges will double, but
what they are charging today? If they are charging very small amount today than double of it will not
make a significant effect to reduce the garbage disposal and one can't say without proper evidence that
price will increase for sure. Even the people living nearby area might not give the charge rather than
they dispose it by themselves as well so this argument is invalid.
Thirdly, it is said that over 90% responded to do more recycling in the future but how can we believe
that the survey was genuine? And who’s of 90%? We don’t know that survey was conducted for how
many people, and where it was conducted. Without knowing specific evidence we can't say that the
landfill will last longer even though we are supposed to see if the population is going to increase or not?
Increase in population will lead to even more garbage disposal.
Therefore i will conclude that the conclusion written by the chairperson of the West Egg Town Council is
based on so many assumptions and without any support of specific evidence so one can't surely agree
with it without knowing certain unclear answers.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Longer
... landfill will last for considerably longer period. It leaves so many questions una...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Accede
... knowing these answers one can't accede to it. Firstly, the chairperson is s...
^^^^^^
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Is
...recognize and it may be true that it is a high time for searching for the new w...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Been
...s further saying that recycling have been twice but of how much's? For exampl...
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Message: Consider replacing "in an effective way" with adverb for "effective"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...ecycling will not improve the condition in an effective way and even it is not specified that ho...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Specified
... an effective way and even it is not specified that how much tons of garbage is being ...
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Message: Use 'many' with countable nouns.
Suggestion: many
...nd even it is not specified that how much tons of garbage is being recycled? S...
^^^^
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: What
...ause of the charges will double, but what they are charging today? If they are ch...
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Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...e, but what they are charging today? If they are charging very small amount tod...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Price
...9;t say without proper evidence that price will increase for sure. Even the people...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: They
...ight not give the charge rather than they dispose it by themselves as well so thi...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: That
...in the future but how can we believe that the survey was genuine? And who's ...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Many
...ow that survey was conducted for how many people, and where it was conducted. Wit...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Landfill
...c evidence we can't say that the landfill will last longer even though we are sup...
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Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
... lead to even more garbage disposal. Therefore i will conclude that the conclusion wri...
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Message: Did you mean 'I'?
Suggestion: I
...ven more garbage disposal. Therefore i will conclude that the conclusion writt...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: With
...idence so one can't surely agree with it without knowing certain unclear answ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['but', 'first', 'firstly', 'if', 'may', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'therefore', 'third', 'thirdly', 'well', 'for example']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.191111111111 0.25644967241 75% => OK
Verbs: 0.171111111111 0.15541462614 110% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0777777777778 0.0836205057962 93% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0622222222222 0.0520304965353 120% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0533333333333 0.0272364105082 196% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.137777777778 0.125424944231 110% => OK
Participles: 0.0533333333333 0.0416121511921 128% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.5876926181 2.79052419416 93% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0177777777778 0.026700313972 67% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0644444444444 0.113004496875 57% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.04 0.0255425247493 157% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0177777777778 0.0127820249294 139% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2300.0 2731.13054187 84% => OK
No of words: 383.0 446.07635468 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 6.00522193211 6.12365571057 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42384287591 4.57801047555 97% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.344647519582 0.378187486979 91% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.276762402089 0.287650121315 96% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.187989556136 0.208842608468 90% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.127937336815 0.135150697306 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5876926181 2.79052419416 93% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 207.018472906 90% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.488250652742 0.469332199767 104% => OK
Word variations: 52.2659522899 52.1807786196 100% => OK
How many sentences: 14.0 20.039408867 70% => OK
Sentence length: 27.3571428571 23.2022227129 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 92.9465503636 57.7814097925 161% => OK
Chars per sentence: 164.285714286 141.986410481 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.3571428571 23.2022227129 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.928571428571 0.724660767414 128% => OK
Paragraphs: 23.0 5.14285714286 447% => There are something wrong with the essay format.
Language errors: 17.0 3.58251231527 475% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 55.033383066 51.9672348444 106% => OK
Elegance: 1.33333333333 1.8405768891 72% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.384282701049 0.441005458295 87% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.146299127133 0.135418324435 108% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0882306783398 0.0829849096947 106% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.81438095696 0.58762219726 139% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.230573809968 0.147661913831 156% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.153377635492 0.193483328276 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.104222723499 0.0970749176394 107% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.0922257163127 0.42659136922 22% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0730470950543 0.0774707102158 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.13695432082 0.312017818177 44% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.118351813707 0.0698173142475 170% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.33743842365 96% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.87684729064 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.82512315271 104% => OK
Positive topic words: 6.0 6.46551724138 93% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 5.36822660099 19% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 0.0 2.82389162562 0% => More neutral topic words wanted.
Total topic words: 7.0 14.657635468 48% => More topic words wanted.
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 -- 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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