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.
The argument that Prunty County has to implement the same methods, that were implemented by Butler County instead of lowering the speed limit to 45km per hour to improve highway safety. Stated in this way the argument fails to mention several key factors, on the basis of which it could be evaluated. The Author have come to this conclusion based on the number of accidents recorded after lowering the speed limit. The conclusion relies on assumptions, for which there is no clear evidence. Therefore, the argument is rather weak, unconvincing, and has several flaws.
First of all, the argument readily assumes that exceeding the speed limit is the only reason for the accidents in prunty county. However, this may not be the case .Perhaps the accidents were caused by other reasons. The Person travelling within the speed limit may also cause accidents due to lack of driving knowledge. sometimes, there may be natural causes like sudden attacks in the middle of the driving. The argument would have been much clearer if it explicitly taken other factors in consideration.
Second, the argument assumes that both Prunty County and Butler County has similar kind of drivers. This is again a very weak and unsupported claim as the argument does not demonstrate any correlation between drivers of prunty county and butler county. Perhaps the drivers of butler county are more carefull. If the argument had provided evidence that both counties have same kind of factors then it would have been a lot more convincing to the reader.
Finally, the author assumes that the stats provided by traffic police supports that the people were exceeding the speed limit. However, careful scrutiny of the evidence reveals that it provides little credible support for the author’s conclusion in several critical respects, and raises several skeptical questions.
In conclusion, the author’s argument is unpersuasive as it stands. To bolster it further, the author must provide more concrete evidence, perhaps by way of a detailed analysis of people exceeding the speed limit. Finally, to better evaluate the argument, it would be necessary to know more information about how accidents are reduced in prunty county by following rules implemented in butler county.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 363 350
No. of Characters: 1842 1500
No. of Different Words: 177 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.365 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.074 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.495 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 153 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 109 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 67 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 34 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.167 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.057 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.611 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.353 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.576 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.096 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 163, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ounty. However, this may not be the case .Perhaps the accidents were caused by ot...
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Line 3, column 166, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...ty. However, this may not be the case .Perhaps the accidents were caused by oth...
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Line 3, column 168, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: Perhaps
.... However, this may not be the case .Perhaps the accidents were caused by other reas...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 324, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Sometimes
...dents due to lack of driving knowledge. sometimes, there may be natural causes like sudde...
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Line 5, column 310, 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.
...ers of butler county are more carefull. If the argument had provided evidence that...
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Line 7, column 20, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ng to the reader. Finally, the author assumes that the stats provided by traf...
^^
Line 7, column 29, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... reader. Finally, the author assumes that the stats provided by traffic polic...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, so, then, therefore, as to, in conclusion, kind of, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1900.0 2260.96107784 84% => OK
No of words: 363.0 441.139720559 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23415977961 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3649236973 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.62005630369 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 204.123752495 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.490358126722 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 591.3 705.55239521 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.694051551 57.8364921388 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 100.0 119.503703932 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.1052631579 23.324526521 82% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.15789473684 5.70786347227 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
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: 0.210418524628 0.218282227539 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0657276789398 0.0743258471296 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0741563052181 0.0701772020484 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11367653877 0.128457276422 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0778162032246 0.0628817314937 124% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.3799401198 89% => 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: 13.05 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => 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: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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