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 presented a case where the Prunty County attempted to improve their highway safet yby lowering the speed limit from 55 to 45 miles per hour. But that is certainly not working as the number of accidents has not decreased and drivers are frequently found execeeding the speed limit. So the argument concluded by stating that Prunty County should undertake the smae project as the Butler County as they have experienced a 25% reduce in the number of accidents compared to five years ago by keeping the same speed limit of 55 miles per hour. however, there are certain assumption which require more evidence to come to a conclusion. there are mainly to two assumptions.
Firstly, there is need for evidence which can help us to know if the highways of Prunty County are in any way comparable to the highways of Butler County. If the causes behind the number accidents in Prunty County is something different than the causes of accidents in Butler County then the comparison would make no sense. For instance, if there are a number of faulty traffic signals which are leading to accidents in Prunty County then increasing lane widths and other efforts would not help. If Prounty County is facing different problems than Butler County then applying the same solutions would not lead to any improvement.
Secondly, there is need for research to find out the reasons behind so many drivers exceeding the speed limit. For example, if the fine for overspeeding is currently less than the stated amount then that could be the reason for the carelessness of the drivers. Finding out the reason behind the drivers exceeding speed limit can be an important clue to find the root cause of the problem.
In conclusion, there is a need of certain amount of evidence to make a decision before starting the project used by the Butler County. If the Prunty County with the help of its highway patrol can come up with some evidence as to why the number of accidents is not reducing even after the necessary efforts taken and to support their decision, it would make it easy to come to the concludion.
Although, I agree to the reason for the given claim that it is stressful to discuss with people of the opposite views but in a way it is
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 391 350
No. of Characters: 1813 1500
No. of Different Words: 176 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.447 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.637 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.418 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 134 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 86 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 57 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 36 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 30.077 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.375 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.846 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.384 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.683 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.122 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 552, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: However
... same speed limit of 55 miles per hour. however, there are certain assumption which req...
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Line 1, column 579, Rule ID: THERE_RE_MANY[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'assumptions'?
Suggestion: assumptions
...es per hour. however, there are certain assumption which require more evidence to come to ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 643, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: There
... more evidence to come to a conclusion. there are mainly to two assumptions. First...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 156, 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.
...rable to the highways of Butler County. If the causes behind the number accidents ...
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Line 3, column 238, Rule ID: RATHER_THEN[2]
Message: Did you mean 'different 'from''? 'Different than' is often considered colloquial style.
Suggestion: from
...in Prunty County is something different than the causes of accidents in Butler Count...
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Line 3, column 497, 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.
...idths and other efforts would not help. If Prounty County is facing different prob...
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Line 7, column 260, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...nce as to why the number of accidents is not reducing even after the necessary ef...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, as to, for example, for instance, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 14.0 28.8173652695 49% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 55.5748502994 101% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1852.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 391.0 441.139720559 89% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.73657289003 5.12650576532 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44676510885 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.48513874869 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 204.123752495 86% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.450127877238 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 575.1 705.55239521 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => 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: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.5236603963 57.8364921388 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.466666667 119.503703932 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0666666667 23.324526521 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.26666666667 5.70786347227 127% => 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 : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => 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: 0.338702901842 0.218282227539 155% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.108580370588 0.0743258471296 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.115378670058 0.0701772020484 164% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.160281222491 0.128457276422 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.139710063019 0.0628817314937 222% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.3550499002 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.51 12.5979740519 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.95 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 98.500998004 76% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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