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.
The author claims that in order to prevent road accidents on highway, Prunty County should take up the plan which Butler County followed and that is to increase the width of the road, improving the visibility at dangerous intersection as there was no change in no of road accidents by limiting the speed from 55 miles per hour to 45. I would like to argue and point out few flaws based on the argument given below.
First, author assume that the problem of road accidents would be solved by increasing the length of the roads and improving visibility at dangerous intersections as Butler County benefitted through this five years ago. However, such might not be the case with Prunty County. The author did not carry out any survey to prove that the reason for road accidents is due to narrow roads and other issues related to road. Such might not be the case as Punty County might be having enough space for the roads and just because if worked out for Butler County, does not mean it would work out for Punty County plus author failed to see that such was the case for Butler County five years ago. Things might have changed in present scenarios. There could be numerous reasons for road accidents which would not be related to infrastructure of road such as, youngsters carrying out bike races on highway as highways gives perfect space for such a game or their might be case of drunk driving as the drivers may tend to drive in an irrational manner when drunk. Punty County might not be tapping over the drivers on the highways or punty county may have the highway were major trucks passes by and as trucks tend to move slower compared to cars who are coming in fast pace, they might dash into trucks. Chances are the truck drives might falls asleep while driving and lose control. This could also be one of the major reason of accidents on highway.
Moreover, author pointed out that Punty County has lowered the speed limit from 55 to 45 miles. However, speed might not be the reason for accidents. If people do not have driving sense then they are bound to dash into someone. They might not on their indicators while overtaking or give any sort of signals. Author failed to cover these point. Author also states that from the reports on highway patrol, it is said that the speed limit is exceeded. This could be because 45 miles might be slow speed while driving on highways. Accidents might happen if driver drives the car slowly hence lowring the speed limit might not lower the accident rate, infact, it might exacerbate the situation.
Another reason could be that, highways of Punty County might be going through tummels which is prone to accidents. Author failed to metioned the geography of Puntry County. Chances are accidents might happen during a certain season for example only in winters due to slippery roads. In such case, increasing the width of the roads would be a waste of money.
Hence, from the above points it can be concluded that author forgot to mention few points such as carrying out a survey behind real reason of road accidents in Punty County and thus carrying out similiar plan like Butler County might be a wasteful investment.
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Essay evaluation report
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: 24 15
No. of Words: 559 350
No. of Characters: 2563 1500
No. of Different Words: 239 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.862 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.585 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.152 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 172 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 94 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 53 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 33 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.292 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 16.006 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.323 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.48 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.047 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 262, Rule ID: NOW[2]
Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: now
... intersection as there was no change in no of road accidents by limiting the speed...
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Line 2, column 1012, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in an irrational manner" with adverb for "irrational"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...riving as the drivers may tend to drive in an irrational manner when drunk. Punty County might not be t...
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Line 3, column 151, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... might not be the reason for accidents. If people do not have driving sense then t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, hence, however, if, may, moreover, so, then, thus, while, for example, sort of, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 30.0 12.9520958084 232% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 79.0 55.5748502994 142% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 16.3942115768 30% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2610.0 2260.96107784 115% => OK
No of words: 559.0 441.139720559 127% => OK
Chars per words: 4.66905187835 5.12650576532 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.86242540663 4.56307096286 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.20763228762 2.78398813304 79% => OK
Unique words: 245.0 204.123752495 120% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.438282647585 0.468620217663 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 778.5 705.55239521 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 88.3928160574 57.8364921388 153% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.75 119.503703932 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2916666667 23.324526521 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.375 5.70786347227 77% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 6.88822355289 203% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.210731050759 0.218282227539 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0697468508712 0.0743258471296 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0741445194964 0.0701772020484 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.144560495171 0.128457276422 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0727105888889 0.0628817314937 116% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 14.3799401198 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 65.05 48.3550499002 135% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.1 12.5979740519 80% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.32 8.32208582834 88% => OK
difficult_words: 90.0 98.500998004 91% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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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