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.
To decrease the level of road accidents the officials of Prunty Country have already taken some measures, for instance, they put the restriction on the allowed speed. Since it was not successful, they intent to adopt the measures which Butler County applied. Though it may look a good solution, it contains some prominent logical flaws.
The reduction of the allowed speed from 55 to 45 mph might be not a fruitful measure. This speed can still be dangerous with the bunch of other conditions, like, low quality of roads, the lack of rad signs and others. Maybe it will be more effective if to reduce it to lower than 45 mph. Thus, the officials of Prunty County should pay more attention to whether this speed restriction can improve the situation at all.
At the same time, Prunty County cannot rely on the experience Butler County, and adopt its road improvements. The officials of Butler County could examine that they indeed had had problems with lane widths, rough highways and visibility at dangerous intersections, which were the main reason of traffic accidents. Otherwise, the high percent of accidents in Prunty County may be caused by other factors, like irresponsible drivers, bad roads, or the lack of illumination on roads.
Moreover, the period of time of 1 year might be not enough to analyze the success of the taken measure. Perhaps, it requires more time to see optimistic improvements in the statistics of road accidents in Prunty County. We can see that the text provides the 5 years span for Butler County to present the effect of the road improvements. Thus, to see changes in Prunty County it might be better to compare the current situation and how it will change in 5 years.
To sum up, based on the arguments presented in the essay, the idea to adopt measures which were taken in Butler County is not reliable.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- OK
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Let's analyze the structure of the statement and argue accordingly:
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.
we may argue like:
1. your argument 3, it may take more years to test out
2. maybe the limit works very well, but other reasons caused more accidents
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.
we may argue like:
1. your argument 2. maybe other reasons caused the improvements in Butler
2. it worked 5 years ago, it may not work now
conclusion:
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.
we may argue like:
it works for Butler County, but it may not work for Prunty County
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 317 350
No. of Characters: 1482 1500
No. of Different Words: 161 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.22 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.675 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.523 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 105 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 69 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 46 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 32 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.133 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.018 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.345 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.602 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.069 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 338, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... contains some prominent logical flaws. The reduction of the allowed speed from ...
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Line 5, column 173, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: had
...r County could examine that they indeed had had problems with lane widths, rough highwa...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 15, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...illumination on roads. Moreover, the period of time of 1 year might be not enough to analyz...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, look, may, moreover, so, still, thus, for instance, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.6327345309 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 55.5748502994 90% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1536.0 2260.96107784 68% => OK
No of words: 317.0 441.139720559 72% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.84542586751 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.21953715646 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63010903848 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 204.123752495 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.529968454259 0.468620217663 113% => OK
syllable_count: 460.8 705.55239521 65% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
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: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 35.1409858838 57.8364921388 61% => OK
Chars per sentence: 102.4 119.503703932 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.1333333333 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.66666666667 5.70786347227 82% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => 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: 0.210469298229 0.218282227539 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0697236410618 0.0743258471296 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0368174188744 0.0701772020484 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109158596582 0.128457276422 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0386867628689 0.0628817314937 62% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.0 14.3799401198 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.85 12.5979740519 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.07 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 98.500998004 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 12.3882235529 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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
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