In an attempt to improve highway safety, Prunty County last year lowered its speed limit from 55 to 45 miles per hour on all county highways. But this effort has failed: the number of accidents has not decreased, and, based on reports by the highway patrol, many drivers are exceeding the speed limit. Prunty County should instead undertake the same kind of road improvement project that Butler County completed five years ago: increasing lane widths, resurfacing rough highways, and improving visibility at dangerous intersections. Today, major Butler County roads still have a 55 mph speed limit, yet there were 25 percent fewer reported accidents in Butler County this past year than there were five years ago.
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 author concludes that the prunty county can reduce the number of accidents by following the similar project done by butler county. To bolster his recommendation, the author provides evidence like no changes in the number of accidents by lowering speed limit to 55 to 45 miles per hour, and fewer reported accidents in butler county after undertaking road improvement project. However, there are several flaws in the argument that, if not substantiated, dramatically undermines the persuasiveness of the argument.
First of all, the autor assumes that the number of accidents is a sole function of high speed, and reducing the speed limit to 55 to 45 miles per hour can reduce the number of accidents. It is possible that the accidents are due to multiple factors like damaged road conditions, smaller lanes, haphazard driving, drunk driving etc. The author should should provide evidence to substantiate his argument that the accidents are due to higher speed.
Secondly, the author erroneously assumes that butler county and prunty county are similar and comparable. It is possible that the prunty county is a mountaineous county and butler county is plain land. It is also possible that butler county had enough budget to carry out road improvement project, whereas, it may not be a similar case in prunty county. If this is the case, then argument does not hold water. The author should provide evidences that the both county have similar landscapes, climatic conditions and both the county are comparable in order to bolster his argument.
Thirdly, the author assumes 25 percent fewer reported accidents is significant. It is possible that the previous number of accidents were 4 and now it is 3. In this case, 25 percent may not be a significant value. So, the author should substantiate his argument providing exact statistics of the number of accidents in the past and the current number of accidents. If he can provide these evidences then his argument is strengthened.
In conclusion, the argument is not persuasive as it sounds. The author should provide the evidences mentioned above to strengthen his argument and prove his points valid.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 343, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: should
... driving, drunk driving etc. The author should should provide evidence to substantiate his ar...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 365, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
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.
...st and the current number of accidents. If he can provide these evidences then his...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, whereas, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 55.5748502994 70% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1806.0 2260.96107784 80% => OK
No of words: 352.0 441.139720559 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13068181818 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33147354134 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82737115255 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 204.123752495 74% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.428977272727 0.468620217663 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 559.8 705.55239521 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.6803361751 57.8364921388 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.333333333 119.503703932 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5555555556 23.324526521 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.44444444444 5.70786347227 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 6.88822355289 203% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.221633633112 0.218282227539 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0776743810799 0.0743258471296 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0780406690841 0.0701772020484 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130466797444 0.128457276422 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0810543809004 0.0628817314937 129% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.3799401198 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.81 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 98.500998004 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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: 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 343, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: should
... driving, drunk driving etc. The author should should provide evidence to substantiate his ar...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 365, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
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.
...st and the current number of accidents. If he can provide these evidences then his...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, whereas, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 55.5748502994 70% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1806.0 2260.96107784 80% => OK
No of words: 352.0 441.139720559 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13068181818 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33147354134 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.82737115255 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 204.123752495 74% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.428977272727 0.468620217663 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 559.8 705.55239521 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 49.6803361751 57.8364921388 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.333333333 119.503703932 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5555555556 23.324526521 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.44444444444 5.70786347227 113% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 6.88822355289 203% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.221633633112 0.218282227539 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0776743810799 0.0743258471296 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0780406690841 0.0701772020484 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.130466797444 0.128457276422 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0810543809004 0.0628817314937 129% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.3799401198 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.47 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.81 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 98.500998004 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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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: 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.