The author suggests that the Prunty County should improve the road condition since Butler Country was successful at lowering the accident by 25 percent after the improvement project. However, the author's argument is unpersuasive as it is based on several questionable assumptions.
First, the author assumes the highway safety was not improved considering the unchanged number of accidents. However, the same number of accidents does not mean that the same fatality from the accidents. It is likely that the accidents after the lowered speed limit policy might have been less serious than those during the 55-speed limit. Therefore, the author should provide the information comparing the level of casualties and harms caused by the accidents before and after the stringent speed limit policy.
Second, the author presumes that people still drive in the illegal speed and the new limitation is not effective at regulation. Nevertheless, people might have driven at a lower speed than before. For instance, drivers who caught by the camera might have been driving at 50 miles per hour. If so, even though the drivers caught by exceeding the speed limit still exist, but the overall speed they are driving at might have decreased. Thus, the overall highway safety might have been improved thanks to the speed limit. Thus, to strengthen the argument, the author should provide information related to the speed ranges of drivers who were caught before and after the policy.
Last, the author supposes that the road improvement project will necessarily improve the highway safety of Prunty County. However, even though it was successful in the Butler County, it does not guarantee that it would bring the same level of success to Prunty County. Perhaps, the conditions of highways in the county are already good that the improvement project might be unnecessary. If so, the improvement project might use up the budget without any positive influence on the highway safety. Therefore, the author should consider if the highway project will bring the same result for the Prunty county.
To sum up, the author needs to provide information related to the differences in the level of harms, speeds before and after the policy, and the necessity of the road improvement project to substantiate its argument.
Essay evaluation report
Let's analyze the structure of the statement:
condition 1:
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.//your argument 1 and argument 2, need to put them in one argument.
condition 2:
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. //your argument 3
condition 3:
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. //you don't have. maybe other reasons caused the decline. for example, a lot of people moved out of the country.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 370 350
No. of Characters: 1884 1500
No. of Different Words: 158 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.386 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.092 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.502 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 153 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 97 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 58 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 41 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.556 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.039 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.778 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.374 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.605 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.155 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 198, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...r the improvement project. However, the authors argument is unpersuasive as it is based...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, nevertheless, second, so, still, then, therefore, thus, for instance, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 28.8173652695 52% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1938.0 2260.96107784 86% => OK
No of words: 370.0 441.139720559 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.23783783784 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38581623665 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.57849169676 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 204.123752495 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.445945945946 0.468620217663 95% => OK
syllable_count: 589.5 705.55239521 84% => 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: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.5376518129 57.8364921388 63% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.666666667 119.503703932 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.5555555556 23.324526521 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.77777777778 5.70786347227 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.241839612623 0.218282227539 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0861092875476 0.0743258471296 116% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0442740088654 0.0701772020484 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133140897487 0.128457276422 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0447425955789 0.0628817314937 71% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.3799401198 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.17 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 98.500998004 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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