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 prompt suggests the idea - what the Butler County did was enough to lessen the road accidents and should be replicated for the same of Prunty County. Though the author analysis both the situations analogously, there some some underlied assumptions that have to be cleared of before coming to any conclusions -
1. The Prunty Country has not taken the necessary improvement steps that have been discussed into the prompt comparing to the Butler County.
2. The skillset of drivers of both the counties are same.
3. The other important factors pertinent with road accidents are same for both the counties.
First to begin with - it is assumed that the Prunty Council has not taken the improvment steps taken by the Butler County. What if it is not the case and the Prunty County has taken even those initiatives at larger scale, still suffering from the accedents? What if the drivers driving over the roads are not skilled enough? What if the drivers are not dilligent enough to maintain the regulations provided by the Prunty County? If that is the case then no improvement projects and initiatives will be of any use. If, even by further investigation, comes out that the driver of the Butler County are much more educated and sincere enough to follow the roads and high regulations compared to those of Prunty County. If that is the case - then, no matter how much providential steps the county takes it will be upshot of zero result.
Another point - the author is missing - although it is said that the speed limit of the Butler County is 55 mph. But what if it is not the same in actual case. What if it is compensated even with lower limiting speed; violating which will result into the dismay of the drivers? Good possibility that taking this impediment as well as proper application of highway laws has decreased the accidents of the Butler County, not the improvement steps. So, in that case - it should not be a fool's talk to say that - proper regulation and application of highway rules might be the solution for Prunty County rather than blindly following the Butler County.
Apart from that - it is mentioned in the prompt that the Butler County has initiated the steps about five years earlier from the concluding period. However, in the case of Prunty County - the tasks are judged based on only the evidences of last year. That is to say - what if changes occur after two or three years later from conclusion time? It might be same for the Butler County that - initially the driver were having same issues as the drivers of Prunty County is having now - yet the initiative became a successful one - giving sifficient amount of time. So it can be said that - it might be too early to come into conclusion that Prunty County has not done enough for the road's safety for which they have to follow the Butler County.
So, looking at all the factors and angles, it might not be an ideal case to come to any conclusion as there are plenty of assumptions to be cleared of as well as much evidences are in need to make a firm decision regarding the road safety of the Prunty County.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 6 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 8 2
No. of Sentences: 26 15
No. of Words: 544 350
No. of Characters: 2481 1500
No. of Different Words: 222 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.829 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.561 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.385 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 175 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 89 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 64 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 50 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.923 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.482 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.615 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.306 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.506 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.08 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 221, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: some
... both the situations analogously, there some some underlied assumptions that have to be c...
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Line 1, column 314, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ed of before coming to any conclusions - 1. The Prunty Country has not taken the ...
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Line 5, column 3, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...vers of both the counties are same. 3. The other important factors pertinent with ...
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Line 7, column 326, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... over the roads are not skilled enough? What if the drivers are not dilligent enough...
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Line 7, column 716, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ons compared to those of Prunty County. If that is the case - then, no matter how ...
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Line 13, column 163, Rule ID: MUCH_COUNTABLE[1]
Message: Use 'many' with countable nouns.
Suggestion: many
...assumptions to be cleared of as well as much evidences are in need to make a firm de...
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Line 13, column 262, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...g the road safety of the Prunty County.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, look, may, regarding, so, still, then, well, apart from, as well as, to begin with, that is to say
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 34.0 19.6327345309 173% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 63.0 55.5748502994 113% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2556.0 2260.96107784 113% => OK
No of words: 544.0 441.139720559 123% => OK
Chars per words: 4.69852941176 5.12650576532 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82947280553 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.45218090728 2.78398813304 88% => OK
Unique words: 231.0 204.123752495 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.424632352941 0.468620217663 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 788.4 705.55239521 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.0692382211 57.8364921388 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.130434783 119.503703932 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.652173913 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.34782608696 5.70786347227 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 8.0 5.15768463074 155% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => 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: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.202977175864 0.218282227539 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0675640563659 0.0743258471296 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0455658886649 0.0701772020484 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0905747121842 0.128457276422 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0591198200964 0.0628817314937 94% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.3799401198 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 48.3550499002 135% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.28 12.5979740519 82% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.59 8.32208582834 91% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 98.500998004 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => 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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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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