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.
In the argument stated above the Prunty County for improving the highway safety and for reducing the number of accidents, lowered its speed limit from 55 mph to 45 mph on all county highways. But their effort has failed and they found that the number of accidents has not decreased. They evaluated this on the basis of reports by highway pastoral that many drivers exceed their speed limit. It can be possible that the drivers in the Prunty County didn’t know about the rules and thus they drive with their usual speed. So the condition might arise that some people knew and some didn’t and thus numbers of accidents increased.
The Prunty County should have put some notice or board across the road so that the fellow drivers could know about the speeding limit. The argument further states that Prunty County should undertake road improvement project as Butler County did 5 years ago to decrease the number of accidents. This statement is totally obscure. Just by seeing the result of Butler County implementing the same in the Prunty County is fallacious. It can be possible that Butler County’s road condition was not up to the mark five years ago and that’s why they undertook road improvement project. But in the argument, it is nowhere stated that the Prunty County’s road condition is not good.
In the argument, it is purported that the Butler County had increased lane width, resurface rough highways and improved visibility at dangerous intersections. But to apply same in Prunty County is of no use. It might be possible that the Prunty County road width is quite well and also there is no such problem in the road so that they should undertake the road improvement project. It can be possible that the drivers in the Prunty County are not well trained and do not follow the rules that are initiated. They constantly break the rule and thus end up having an accident. To stop this some major steps such as driving camps should be arranged so that people can get aware of the rules.
The Butler County after implementing the road improvement project experienced less number of accidents and also their speed limit is 55mph. The Prunty County assumes that this is happening due to the road improvement but the reason can be different. It can be possible that drivers in Butler County became more cautious in comparison to earlier. The Butler County would have arranged some camps which guided the drivers to drive safely and in the limit. It can be possible that the weather condition in Butler County differs from that of Prunty County and that is why the drivers are comfortable traveling at 55kmp without accidents whereas in Prunty County might have some weather problems and thus due to that accidents take place.
In conclusion, the author has stated the argument with no proper proofs and also the Prunty County’s accident reports can differ at day and night. Proper statistics are not provided in the argument. It can be possible that at night there can be so much fog that the drivers can hardly see anything and thus accidents occur. So just by implementing what the Butler County implemented in their County to decrease the number of accidents is vile. So Prunty County should undertake some additional steps such as arranging camps, more zebra crossing on the road and also street lights on the highways to avoid the accidents.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 27 15
No. of Words: 578 350
No. of Characters: 2735 1500
No. of Different Words: 216 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.903 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.732 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.348 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 202 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 117 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 85 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 51 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.407 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.256 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.365 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.502 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.102 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so, thus, well, whereas, in conclusion, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.9520958084 162% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 11.1786427146 206% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 24.0 13.6137724551 176% => OK
Pronoun: 48.0 28.8173652695 167% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 62.0 55.5748502994 112% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2818.0 2260.96107784 125% => OK
No of words: 576.0 441.139720559 131% => OK
Chars per words: 4.89236111111 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.89897948557 4.56307096286 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50585733585 2.78398813304 90% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 204.123752495 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.378472222222 0.468620217663 81% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 843.3 705.55239521 120% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 4.96107784431 242% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 19.7664670659 137% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.0951317504 57.8364921388 85% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.37037037 119.503703932 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.3333333333 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.2962962963 5.70786347227 40% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 15.0 6.88822355289 218% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.303886181254 0.218282227539 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104410841542 0.0743258471296 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0712329497743 0.0701772020484 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.207324940346 0.128457276422 161% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.072424415942 0.0628817314937 115% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.3799401198 86% => 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: 11.08 12.5979740519 88% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.15 8.32208582834 86% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 98.500998004 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => 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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