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.
In the given argument, it is stated that Prunty County should 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.This argument is based on the evidence that the number of accidents has not decreased in Prunty County even though the highway speed limit is decreased from 55 to 45 miles per hour. But in 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. In my opinion, the authors conclusion seems not completely true because of the following reasons:
Is Prunty county highway and Butler highway are comparable? In above statement the author didnt mention any information about the sturcture land of the two county.Their might be different land structure in two state making the highway different in two state. Ultimately, the structure of highway differs the number of accidents. If this hold true, then the above argument doest hold water.
Was the number of vehicle and the population using it are also same? The author haven't given any data of vehicles and their users. In one state people might use their personal vehicles more and in another state the public vehicle might used more. More personal vehicles means more number of vehicle which actually means more number of accidents. Due to the lack of this information and data the above author's conclusion is not strong.
In conclusion, the above argument seems completely falacious now because of its reliance on several unwarrented assumption. If the author is capable to answer above questions and provide more evidences with scientific reasearch, then it is possible to analyse the feasibility of implementation of the same stategy of Butler County in the Prunty County.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 8 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 10 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 312 350
No. of Characters: 1568 1500
No. of Different Words: 162 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.203 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.026 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.552 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 115 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 80 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 57 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 41 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.286 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 16.135 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.571 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.339 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.555 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.07 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: This
...g visibility at dangerous intersections.This argument is based on the evidence that ...
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Line 1, column 396, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
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Suggestion:
...nty County even though the highway speed limit is decreased from 55 to 45 miles p...
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Line 1, column 647, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...were five years ago. In my opinion, the authors conclusion seems not completely true be...
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Line 3, column 91, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
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Suggestion: didn't
...mparable? In above statement the author didnt mention any information about the sturc...
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Suggestion: Their
...ut the sturcture land of the two county.Their might be different land structure in tw...
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Line 3, column 364, Rule ID: THE_SUPERLATIVE[2]
Message: A determiner is probably missing here: 'argument the doest'.
Suggestion: argument the doest
...ents. If this hold true, then the above argument doest hold water. Was the number of vehicl...
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Line 5, column 55, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'is'?
Suggestion: is
... of vehicle and the population using it are also same? The author havent given any ...
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Line 5, column 81, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
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...tion using it are also same? The author havent given any data of vehicles and their us...
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Line 5, column 194, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
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Suggestion:
...ght use their personal vehicles more and in another state the public vehicle migh...
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Line 5, column 263, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'vehicles'' or 'vehicle's'?
Suggestion: vehicles'; vehicle's
... vehicle might used more. More personal vehicles means more number of vehicle which act...
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Line 5, column 282, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... more. More personal vehicles means more number of vehicle which actually means m...
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Line 5, column 404, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
... of this information and data the above authors conclusion is not strong. In conclus...
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Line 7, column 138, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
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Suggestion:
...al unwarrented assumption. If the author is capable to answer above questions and...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, if, so, still, then, in conclusion, kind of, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.9520958084 31% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 13.6137724551 29% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 28.8173652695 52% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1607.0 2260.96107784 71% => OK
No of words: 309.0 441.139720559 70% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.20064724919 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1926597562 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70115862071 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 204.123752495 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.53074433657 0.468620217663 113% => OK
syllable_count: 504.9 705.55239521 72% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => 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: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 101.519870093 57.8364921388 176% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.615384615 119.503703932 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7692307692 23.324526521 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.07692307692 5.70786347227 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 13.0 5.25449101796 247% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.287720482068 0.218282227539 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0891730647936 0.0743258471296 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.107728881182 0.0701772020484 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.157812129436 0.128457276422 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.134306935523 0.0628817314937 214% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.18 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.3 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 98.500998004 70% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 27.5 12.3882235529 222% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => 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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