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.
The author has cited some facts and come to the conclusion that if similar road improvement is brought to the Prunty Country like that in Butler Country than roads accidents number will decrease. However, the argument is rife with holes and unwarranted assumptions and thus, not strong enough to buttress the preceded conclusion.
First of all, the argument is based on the questionable assumption that higher speed is the indication of the number of accidents increasing. However, there is no substantial information about the number of accidents happened in the highway. Data supporting the evidence provided by the author is a paucity of information. One point may be that drivers are not able to take control of their cars or they do not have enough information about the way of driving on the highways. It is also important to say that highway patrol reports cannot be taken into account for measuring the accidents. Perhaps there is no such board on the highway indicate the speed limit in the road.
The author also attributes that Prunty County should develop the same kind of road improvements as the Butler Country did five years ago like resurfacing rough highways and improving visibility at dangerous intersections. However, the author is unable to provide what effect it had on the decreasing number of accidents. Alongside, there maybe possibilities that Butler Country's road had narrow and rough roads whereas Prunty's road are smooth and wide.
Finally, the author stands claims that Butler's roads having 55mph speed limit yet a low number of accidents reported than five years ago. It is plausible that people a high number of people have migrated from Bulter county to other places in these five years reducing the number of accidents to 25 percent which does not seem accurate. One point that cannot go unnoticed is that there may feasibility that weather condition of Prunty and Butler is not same which could lead to more number of accidents in Prunty's road.
In brief, the claim is based on unconvincing background. To sum up, the suggestion made by the author is not well thought, as aforementioned reasons clearly indicates that the idea is not cogent.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
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: 16 15
No. of Words: 362 350
No. of Characters: 1789 1500
No. of Different Words: 189 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.362 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.942 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.64 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 132 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 89 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 62 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.625 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.713 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.812 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.345 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.591 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.073 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 396, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ies that Butler Countrys road had narrow and rough roads whereas Pruntys road are...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, so, thus, well, whereas, in brief, kind of, first of all, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 47.0 55.5748502994 85% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1827.0 2260.96107784 81% => OK
No of words: 362.0 441.139720559 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04696132597 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36191444098 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.69693771377 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 204.123752495 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.527624309392 0.468620217663 113% => OK
syllable_count: 557.1 705.55239521 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => 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: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.1066444662 57.8364921388 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.1875 119.503703932 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.625 23.324526521 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 5.70786347227 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.214800966163 0.218282227539 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0700512657139 0.0743258471296 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0539689172806 0.0701772020484 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.106562245101 0.128457276422 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0617249271566 0.0628817314937 98% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.3799401198 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 12.5979740519 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.39 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 98.500998004 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => 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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