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 above argument, the author argues that Prunty Country should implement the same tactics as the Butler Country implemented 5 years ago. The author supports his argument on the basis of the reports of declining accidents , because of previously implemented tactics, as widening road widths, resurfacing rough highways, and improving visibility at dangerous intersections . However, before evaluating the author’s argument, three unstated assumptions need to be answered.
Firstly, the author uses circumstances from one thing to determine and predict the others. Maybe the Prunty City roads and Butler City roads are not similar at all. There is a possibility that the roads in Butler City run through more rural area than the roads in the Prunty City. In this case, the traffic in the roads of Butler city is much abate than traffics in the roads of Prunty city. There is a possibility that roads in Prunty city are too short for widening. Then, the proposed recommendations can not be implemented on the roads of the Prunty City as the roads in the Butler City. Then one can not assumed the proposed recommendation about widening roads, will also work. The authors provides no admissible evidence to justify the conditions of the roads of the two different places, otherwise, If, any one of the above situation is true then, the author’s argument holds no water.
Secondly, the author argues about the failed implementation of plan without providing any necessitate evidence. The author provides no informations about the legitimacy of the report of highway patrol. Maybe people are unaware recently implemented law about decreasing speed limit. Even it is not the case, one can not compare the efficacy of two plans, which were implemented in two different times. In other word, the author compare the plan, which was implemented last year with the plan, which was implemented five years ago. Maybe there is a feasibility that at first the people also breached the some of the traffic laws in Butler city, but after facilitating strict traffic laws and proper punishments for exceeding speed limit , speeding and number of accidents were severely declined. The author did not offer any admissible evidence (perhaps in the form of systematic statistical charts ) about the traffic conditions of tw cities, otherwise, the author’s argument is built unreliably.
Thirdly, the author uses percentage to describe the efficacy of the law in the Butler City. Percentage is a tricky number, without the absolute number is given, one can not predict anything. Perhaps the number of accidents in the roads of Butler City was 4000 five years ago, then, past year the number of accidents was decreased to 3000 per year. But this number is considerably very high, but past year in the roads of the Prunty City, the number of accidents in the highways were 2000. Thus, predicting something on the basis of a percentage may not be that much of a warranted idea. Even if this is not the case, the proposed plan may fail to dwindle traffic in the recent future. There is no guarantee that if one plan worked previously, then it will be same effective in the future as past. If the author provides some admissible evidence, like statistical charts of the accidents over the past few years, then , a reader may have little bit elucidate concept about the author’s proposed recommendation, otherwise, if, any one of the above cases is true, then, the author argument is seriously unwarranted.
In the conclusion, the author’s argument as it stands now is considerably flawed due to its reliance on several unwarranted assumptions. If the author is able to answer the three assumptions above and offer more evidence, then , it will be possible to evaluate the viability of the proposed recommendation that Prunty County should undertake the same kind of road improvement project as Butler County.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 6 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 28 15
No. of Words: 639 350
No. of Characters: 3159 1500
No. of Different Words: 243 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.028 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.944 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.732 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 224 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 159 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 126 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 78 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.821 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.673 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.536 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.333 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.407 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.152 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 3 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...is of the reports of declining accidents , because of previously implemented tacti...
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Line 1, column 377, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
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Suggestion: .
...ng visibility at dangerous intersections . However, before evaluating the author’s...
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Line 3, column 610, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'can' requires the base form of the verb: 'assume'
Suggestion: assume
...ds in the Butler City. Then one can not assumed the proposed recommendation about widen...
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Line 3, column 696, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'provide'.
Suggestion: provide
...ning roads, will also work. The authors provides no admissible evidence to justify the c...
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Line 3, column 787, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
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...itions of the roads of the two different places, otherwise, If, any one of the ab...
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Line 4, column 604, Rule ID: THE_SOME_DAY[1]
Message: Did you mean 'same'?
Suggestion: same
...t at first the people also breached the some of the traffic laws in Butler city, but...
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Line 4, column 604, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
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Suggestion: some
...t at first the people also breached the some of the traffic laws in Butler city, but after ...
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...er punishments for exceeding speed limit , speeding and number of accidents were s...
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...he form of systematic statistical charts about the traffic conditions of tw citie...
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Line 5, column 238, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
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... the number of accidents in the roads of Butler City was 4000 five years ago, the...
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Suggestion: little; bit
...ast few years, then , a reader may have little bit elucidate concept about the author’s pr...
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...ions above and offer more evidence, then , it will be possible to evaluate the via...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, thus, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.6327345309 158% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 28.8173652695 56% => OK
Preposition: 87.0 55.5748502994 157% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3255.0 2260.96107784 144% => OK
No of words: 639.0 441.139720559 145% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09389671362 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.02776782673 4.56307096286 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81912792434 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 261.0 204.123752495 128% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.408450704225 0.468620217663 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1029.6 705.55239521 146% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 18.0 8.76447105788 205% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.22255489022 213% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 19.7664670659 142% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 63.6810852 57.8364921388 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.25 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8214285714 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.64285714286 5.70786347227 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 13.0 5.25449101796 247% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 6.88822355289 203% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.67664670659 257% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.138914456559 0.218282227539 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0435759144663 0.0743258471296 59% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0523210604154 0.0701772020484 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0798602921406 0.128457276422 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0374250673387 0.0628817314937 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.54 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.04 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 134.0 98.500998004 136% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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