The author seems to have made a reasonable conclusion based on the evidence provided. However, he fails to consider other plausible factors that might also have lead to a failure in improving highway safety in Prunty County. Before adopting any measures stated by the author, the County must examine the said problem and look for other factors that might have led to a failure in decreasing the number of accidents.
It is the author’s opinion that in spite of a reduction in the speed limit on all county highways in Prunty County, the number of accidents haven’t decreased. The biggest flaw in the argument in the author’s assumption that all the accidents in the county are caused by driving over the speed limit. The author fails to consider that the accidents might have been due a number of other reasons. For example, maybe the accidents cause on the county highways are because the highways are poorly maintained or there is a lack of speed breakers. Other factors that could also lead to highway accidents could include lack of lighting that is poor visibility at night time or a general disregard of traffic rules to name a few. It would be wise to examine the actual number of accidents caused be exceeding the speed limit as opposed to the number of accidents caused by other reasons as a general decrease in speed limit would not resolve all the causes of accidents.
In addition, it is also mentioned that the highway patrol reports drivers exceeding the speed limit. However, the veracity of these reports remains to be examined. It is never brought to the reader’s attention as to how accurate these reports are. Does the highway patrol have suitable means of deducing whether a vehicle is, in fact, going over the speed limit? Or are the said reports simply a general observation? Also if the highway patrol has in fact accurately concluded that vehicles are driving over the speed limit, then do these reports mention the highway where such reckless driving was observed as opposed to the highway where the majority of the accidents occur? Without answers to these questions, the author’s conclusion remains weak and unjustified.
The author goes further to suggest that Prunty County should implement the same measure as Butler County implemented five years ago. It is the author’s view that since increasing lane widths, resurfacing rough highways and improving visibility at dangerous intersections led to a decrease in the number of accidents in Butler County, the same outcomes will be achieved in case of Prunty County. However, the author never mentions how similar or alike the highways are in both counties. The reader is also unaware of how a measure implemented five years ago in case of another county will actually help the county in question. The author makes unreasonable assumptions without realizing the impacts of his suggestions. Also, a 25 percent decrease in accidents doesn’t prove anything. A relative figure always leaves room for ambiguity. To strengthen his case, the author must provide the reader with absolute figures.
Without answers to the aforementioned questions, the author’s suggestion for the county to invest such a huge amount in a road improvement project is highly unjustified and unreasonable. Providing additional data in terms of a number of accidents based on the type of accidents, determining the veracity of the highway patrol reports and the similarities between Prunty and Butler county would certainly help in straightening the foundation of the argument put forth by the author.
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- not OK
argument 3 -- OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 26 15
No. of Words: 588 350
No. of Characters: 2914 1500
No. of Different Words: 245 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.924 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.956 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.624 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 235 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 174 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 107 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 63 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.615 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.385 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.316 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.501 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.102 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 423, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...d reports simply a general observation? Also if the highway patrol has in fact accur...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, if, look, may, so, then, as to, for example, in addition, in fact, in spite of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.6327345309 112% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 84.0 55.5748502994 151% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3015.0 2260.96107784 133% => OK
No of words: 586.0 441.139720559 133% => OK
Chars per words: 5.14505119454 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.92010537223 4.56307096286 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81478162715 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 251.0 204.123752495 123% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.428327645051 0.468620217663 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 953.1 705.55239521 135% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 16.0 8.76447105788 183% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 19.7664670659 132% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 67.4453208294 57.8364921388 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.961538462 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5384615385 23.324526521 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.15384615385 5.70786347227 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 6.88822355289 189% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.282156400217 0.218282227539 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0838177632965 0.0743258471296 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0680300295529 0.0701772020484 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.163936259908 0.128457276422 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0543714302407 0.0628817314937 86% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.3799401198 98% => 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: 12.89 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.45 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 138.0 98.500998004 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => 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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