IN AN ATTEMPT TO IMPROVE HIGHWAY SAFETY PRUNTY COUNTRY LAST YEAR LOWERED ITS SPEED LIMITS FROM 55 TO 45 MILES PER HOUR ON ALL COUNTRY HIGHWAYS. BUT THIS EFFORT HAS FAILED; THE NUMBER OF ACCIDENTS HAS NOT DECREASED, AND, BASED ON REPORT BY HIGHWAY PETROL, MANY DRIVERS ARE EXCEEDING THE SPEED LIMIT. PRUNTY COUNTRY SHOULD INSTEAD undertake THE SAME KIND OF ROAD IMPROVEMENT PROJECT THAT BUTLER COUNTRY COMPLETED FIVE YEARS AGO; INCREASING LANE WIDTHS, RESURFACING ROUGH HIGHWAYS AND IMPROVING VISIBILITY AT DANGEROUS INTERSECTION. TODAY, MAJOR BUTLER COUNTRY ROADS STILL HAVE A 55 MPH SPEED LIMIT, YET THERE WERE 25 PERCENT FEWER REPORTED ACCIDENTS IN BUTLER COUNTRY THIS PAST YEAR THAT THERE WERE FIVE YEARS AGO.
In the given argument, the author is talking about the increase in road accidents in Prunty country. The author’s conclusion goes beyond the evidence like the conclusion is based without any statistical data of both countries.
The reasoning in this argument is flawed in several respects like, in first glens, the author is talking about to improve highway safety, Prunty country last year lowered its speed limits from 55 to 45 miles per hour on all country highway. And, based on the report by the highway patrol many drivers are exceeding the speed limit. Firstly, the author is only focusing on the speed limit of the vehicles. Maybe there is some different reason like traffic congestion is more in that area is more. Also, that is the possibility of not proper management of traffic control. Moreover, the decrease in speed limit 55 to 45 miles per hour on all countries is not given the result of that particular area where most frequent accidents are reported.
The author suggests that the Prunty count should take the kind of road improvement project that butler country completed five years ago; increasing lane widths, resurfacing rough highways and improving visibility at a dangerous intersection. Since here the author is not provided the statistical data of the butler country about the accidents reported. Also, the author is not explained in about the road improvement project how does result road accident decrement. Maybe this is possible in butler country already the road accident ratio is low. For that reason, the comparison between the two countries is not sustainable. Also, what butler country applies will not give the same result for the Prunty country, maybe the reason is different for increasing road accidents in Prunty country that butler country.
In the final point of the author, he said that butler country road still have a 55 mph speed limit, yet there were 25 percent fewer recorded accidents in butler country. Again, the author assume that because of the road improvement project there is a decrease in a road accident, also assume that the speed limit is the cause of the road accident. But there author not provide any data about the butler county’s past year that there were five years ago. Also possible that the population of the butler country is less than the Prunty country, and because of that there is less traffic congestion. Therefore, the road accident ratio is less than Prunty country
In conclusion, this argument is weak because it depends on assumptions about, the reasons for accidents are only the speed limit. And the assumption like the road development project of butler country decrease road accident will work the same for reducing the road accident ratio of Prunty country, make the argument defective and vague.
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Essay evaluation 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: 21 15
No. of Words: 462 350
No. of Characters: 2274 1500
No. of Different Words: 178 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.636 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.922 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.409 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 166 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 122 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 76 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.837 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.37 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.549 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.121 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 244, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Since” 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.
...visibility at a dangerous intersection. Since here the author is not provided the sta...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 460, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...st year that there were five years ago. Also possible that the population of the but...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, may, moreover, so, still, therefore, in conclusion, kind of, talking about
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 3.0 12.9520958084 23% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2342.0 2260.96107784 104% => OK
No of words: 462.0 441.139720559 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.06926406926 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63618218583 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5339147454 2.78398813304 91% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 204.123752495 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.41341991342 0.468620217663 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 714.6 705.55239521 101% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.2992633468 57.8364921388 94% => OK
Chars per sentence: 117.1 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.1 23.324526521 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.25 5.70786347227 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.312421459067 0.218282227539 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.110960018078 0.0743258471296 149% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.110047527154 0.0701772020484 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.187737295509 0.128457276422 146% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.141145792633 0.0628817314937 224% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 91.0 98.500998004 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4 Out of 6
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