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.
According to given argument Prunty county need to follow same road improvement factors which Butler county followed five years back, as lowering speed from 55 to 45 mph didn't help in reducing number of accidents in the county. In this argument, the suggestion to follow same guidelines as Butler county is not based on any strong evidence, which can make sure, widening lanes, or resurfacing rough highwaysor improving visibility at dangerous intersections will definately help prunty county to reduce accidents. No comparison is done, how both counties are similer geographically or is prunty county's problem is same and due to similar reasons as butler county.
First evidence we need to support this argument is a analysis report which certifies that both counties are similar geographically, and have similar work culture and weather conditions. There are many factors which can weaken this argument. May be prunty county already have enough wide highways and no one in the county ever had had issue about width of highway lanes. May be county kept check on their highways and keep on resurfacing when it is needed and doesn't have much blind site intersections, but still have high accident rate due to other reasons for example, prunty county have major companies and people rush in working hours, which cause accident or county has harsh weather conditions such as heavy rain or sharp sun which cause more accidents. In these cases, improving roads might not help.
Another loop hole in the argument is that, no information provided, is prunty county has enough area around highways to widen lanes or there are buildings around highways which leave no chance to widen lanes.
One more gap is butler county implemented the given improvement 5 years before. In this case, statistics which shows accident rate is decreased is recent or not is also a questionable and more detailed data definatly required which will show decrease in accident for butler county is only due to highway improvements.
Thus, as per above discussion, it is important to compare both counties to similarities both implementing solution to prunty county which worked for butler county five years before.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...ut width of highway lanes. May be county kept check on their highways and keep on...
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...ep on resurfacing when it is needed and doesnt have much blind site intersections, but...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, so, still, thus, for example, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 11.0 28.8173652695 38% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 55.5748502994 65% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1840.0 2260.96107784 81% => OK
No of words: 355.0 441.139720559 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.18309859155 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34067318298 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67288767184 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 204.123752495 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.546478873239 0.468620217663 117% => OK
syllable_count: 573.3 705.55239521 81% => 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
Interrogative: 1.0 0.471057884232 212% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
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: 29.0 22.8473053892 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 95.1858926872 57.8364921388 165% => OK
Chars per sentence: 153.333333333 119.503703932 128% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.5833333333 23.324526521 127% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.33333333333 5.70786347227 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.28659326107 0.218282227539 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.118548097845 0.0743258471296 159% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0562037673591 0.0701772020484 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.167672895203 0.128457276422 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0402960020236 0.0628817314937 64% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.8 14.3799401198 124% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.04 48.3550499002 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.197005988 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.36 12.5979740519 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.5 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 98.500998004 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 19.5 12.3882235529 157% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.1389221557 122% => 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 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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