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 Argument stated in the passages is After doing the work of road improvement project in Butler country the number of accidents decreases in that country last year. This will have same effect in Prunty Country. At first this argument seems perfect. After seeing it in detail it is found out that the argument is dependent on certain evidence. The evidence can weaken or strengthen the argument.
After doing the work of road improvement project the number of accidents decreases. This can only happen when accidents are caused due to problems in infrastructure of road. If the accidents are not caused due to problem in infrastructure of road, then after doing the work of road improvement project number of accidents wont decrease. The purpose of doing road improvement project won’t be resolved. Thus, the time and finance used for the project can be a waste of resources. This seriously weakens the argument. If the accidents are caused due to problem in infrastructure of road, then after doing the work of road improvement project number of accidents will decrease. The purpose of doing road improvement project will be resolved. The life and damage to the property of people can be saved. This seriously strengthen the argument.
The road improvement work was done in Prunty country and cases of accidents decreased last year. The road improvement work may or may not have same effect in Butler country. If in Butler country the number of accidents caused is not due to problems in infrastructure, then the road improvement project will not prove useful
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 261 350
No. of Characters: 1281 1500
No. of Different Words: 90 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.019 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.908 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.718 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 93 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 69 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 47 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 31 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 14.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.335 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.333 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.396 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.46 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.12 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 2 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 99, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “When” 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.
...nsider their own talents and interests. When a person is interested in doing somethi...
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Line 2, column 469, 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.
...t for making application in daily life. The student can study in much detail about ...
^^^
Line 2, column 612, 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.
... to innovations in that field of study. The knowledge available in the field of stu...
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Line 3, column 343, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...he sake of getting job. If the students is not liking the job/work when doing it then the stu...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 614, Rule ID: AFFECT_EFFECT[7]
Message: Did you mean 'affect'?
Suggestion: affect
... metal health of student. This may also effect the thinking powers and other function ...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, may, so, then, thus, while, i think
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 19.5258426966 31% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.4196629213 137% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 33.0505617978 76% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 58.6224719101 73% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1652.0 2235.4752809 74% => OK
No of words: 345.0 442.535393258 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.7884057971 5.05705443957 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3097767484 4.55969084622 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.54124390898 2.79657885939 91% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 215.323595506 74% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.460869565217 0.4932671777 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 497.7 704.065955056 71% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59117977528 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 23.0359550562 69% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.2814462401 60.3974514979 50% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 78.6666666667 118.986275619 66% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.4285714286 23.4991977007 70% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.66666666667 5.21951772744 51% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 7.80617977528 64% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.519606546518 0.243740707755 213% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.17674979872 0.0831039109588 213% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.19232341975 0.0758088955206 254% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.330760075266 0.150359130593 220% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.199263818772 0.0667264976115 299% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.3 14.1392134831 66% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 72.16 48.8420337079 148% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.2 12.1743820225 59% => Flesch kincaid grade is low.
coleman_liau_index: 10.21 12.1639044944 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.08 8.38706741573 84% => OK
difficult_words: 58.0 100.480337079 58% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 11.8971910112 67% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.2143820225 75% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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