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 author of the argument claims that the number of accidents can be decreased if the Prunty County undertake the same kind of road improvement project that Butler County completed five years ago instead of lowering its speed limit from 55 to 45 miles per hour on all county highways. The author must provide some concrete evidence to strengthen the argument.
Firstly, the author must provide evidence to weaken the argument that lowering the speed limit will not reduce the number of accidents because based on the reports by the highway patrol, many drivers are exceeding the speed limit. It may be the reason for the constant or increase in the number of the accidents as most of the drivers have not lowered their speed limit. There is a possibility for the decrease in the number of accidents if the strict regulations like lowering their speed limit are followed by the most of the people driving on all county highways.
Secondly, the author must provide evidence that the number of accidents will definitely decrease if the Prunty County undertakes the similar kind of road improvement project that Butler county completed five years ago: increasing lane widths, resurfacing rough highways, and improving visibility at dangerous intersections. There must be some evidence that the lane widths of Prunty County are narrower than Brunty County and there are many rough highways in Prunty county than Brunty county because there is a possibility that Prunty County already has all the facilities that Brunty County completed five years ago. In this case, it would be waste of time and money implementing same kind of road improvement project that Butler county completed five years ago. Also one cannot guarentee for same kind of improvement in Prunty County because Prunty county and Brunty county will be different in many aspects.
Thirdly, the author must tell the number of accidents rather than the percentage of accidents to support the argument that there were 25 percent fewer reported accidents in Butler County this past year than there were five years ago though Butler County roads have a 55 mph speed limit. Because percentage cannot give accurate estimate of the number of accidents.
The author must provide all the above evidences to support the argument that the accidents will decrease in Prunty County if it undertakes the similar kind of road improvement project that Butler county completed five years ago.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 12 15
No. of Words: 400 350
No. of Characters: 2012 1500
No. of Different Words: 145 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.472 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.03 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.442 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 163 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 99 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 71 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 43 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 33.333 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.337 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.75 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.505 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.664 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.21 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 528, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ed limit are followed by the most of the people driving on all county highways. ...
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Line 3, column 569, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... people driving on all county highways. Secondly, the author must provide eviden...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 765, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...Butler county completed five years ago. Also one cannot guarentee for same kind of i...
^^^^
Line 6, column 54, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...author must tell the number of accidents rather than the percentage of accidents ...
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Line 6, column 288, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Because” 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.
...County roads have a 55 mph speed limit. Because percentage cannot give accurate estimat...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2046.0 2260.96107784 90% => OK
No of words: 400.0 441.139720559 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.115 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.472135955 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47761982556 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 204.123752495 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.3675 0.468620217663 78% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 644.4 705.55239521 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 19.7664670659 61% => 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: 33.0 22.8473053892 144% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 82.2322253675 57.8364921388 142% => OK
Chars per sentence: 170.5 119.503703932 143% => OK
Words per sentence: 33.3333333333 23.324526521 143% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.25 5.70786347227 127% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.393933614037 0.218282227539 180% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.168947820636 0.0743258471296 227% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0994729645369 0.0701772020484 142% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.249358416507 0.128457276422 194% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0572123792844 0.0628817314937 91% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.4 14.3799401198 135% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.98 48.3550499002 79% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.2 12.197005988 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.01 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.88 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 98.500998004 67% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 17.0 12.3882235529 137% => OK
gunning_fog: 15.2 11.1389221557 136% => OK
text_standard: 17.0 11.9071856287 143% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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