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.
Author’s states that Prunty county last year lowered speed limit from 55 to 45 miles per hour on all county highways for reducing the road accidents but that effort was failed. Therefore, Author concludes that Butler County roads report less number of accidents because of increasing lane widths, resurfacing rough highways and improving visibility at dangerous intersections and Prunty county wants to undertake the same methods for improving the accidents. However, before this recommendation can be evaluated, author should answered these questions.
Firstly, Author assuming the Prunty county and Buttler County population same? In other words, are both County population are same? There is possibility that Prunty county population is more than Butler county, so if population is more then there can be more vehicle and because of more vehicle there is possibility of more accidents in Prunty county. If either of these scenarios are true then the author’s conclusion is invalid.
Secondly, is both size and economic of Prunty county and Buttler county are same? Maybe Prunty county size is smaller than Bulter County so because of this there is possibility that they cannot increase lane widths. Further, there is possibility that economic of prunty county is not good as butler county so maybe they can’t afford to increase lane widths, reconstruction rough highways. If the above are true then the author argument doesn’t hold water.
In conclusion, the argument as it stands now; it is considerably flawed due to its reliance on several unwarranted assumptions. If the author is able to answer the questions above and provide more evidence (perhaps in the form of systematic research study) then it will be possible to fully evaluate the viability of the proposed implementation.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 284 350
No. of Characters: 1476 1500
No. of Different Words: 145 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.105 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.197 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.685 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 124 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 74 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 57 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 36 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.846 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.509 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 1 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.405 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.405 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.126 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 236, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[2]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
...Butler county, so if population is more then there can be more vehicle and because o...
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Line 2, column 352, 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.
...ity of more accidents in Prunty county. If either of these scenarios are true then...
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Line 3, column 389, 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.
... widths, reconstruction rough highways. If the above are true then the author argu...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, in conclusion, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 28.8173652695 56% => OK
Preposition: 27.0 55.5748502994 49% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1517.0 2260.96107784 67% => OK
No of words: 283.0 441.139720559 64% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.36042402827 5.12650576532 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10153676581 4.56307096286 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78104219804 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 144.0 204.123752495 71% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.508833922261 0.468620217663 109% => OK
syllable_count: 478.8 705.55239521 68% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 68.217802948 57.8364921388 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.692307692 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7692307692 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.23076923077 5.70786347227 144% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.291620824826 0.218282227539 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107989193565 0.0743258471296 145% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.134274174403 0.0701772020484 191% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.169605434079 0.128457276422 132% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.152539033963 0.0628817314937 243% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.3550499002 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.81 12.5979740519 110% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.53 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 98.500998004 70% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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