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 recommendation which provides by the writer is very clear. Only a few pieces of evidence need to be established before a choice as undertaking the road improvement project can be made.
First of all, the author claims that Prunty County's regulation which established last year has failed. The regulation does not reduce the number of accidents. However, the author has to provide evidence whether the failure is directly relative to the regulation of the speed limit law or not. For example, the reason for failure might be because of the weather, or the increase of population in the county last year. These two factors are really possible to make such failure because, in the bad weather such as storm or heavy snow, cars are much more challenging to drive on the road than usual that everybody already know it, and the increasing population could represent the increasing cars so that Prunty has more chance to happen the accidents than before.
Second, the writer mentions in the letter that Butler County success because of the road improvement project. Also, the writer needs to show the specific information that the reducing of accidents in Butler is really causing by this plan. Although Butler makes much change, the factors contributing to the decreasing accidents might have not relevant to those improving. In other words, the massive tax which increases in a couple of years, an aging population, and the promoting to the public transformation are all the factors, which could let citizens in Butler reduce to drive cars on streets. Consequently, accidents are naturally diminishing.
Furthermore, even if the improvement really work very well in Butler, it will have the same function in Prunty? Do Butler and Prunty have any similar place? Alternatively, why the experience in Butler can share to Prunty? Such pieces of information are all needed to be explained clearly. Otherwise, the readers or receiver has no idea why they should accept the concept which is applied in Butler. Additionally, whether a five years old plan still is working today is a big question needed to examine.
In conclusion, to make the argument more convincing, the author must offer the more specific evidence mentioned on the above.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 368 350
No. of Characters: 1821 1500
No. of Different Words: 187 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.38 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.948 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.682 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 139 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 93 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 63 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 43 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.368 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.917 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.579 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.294 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.526 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.066 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 564, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'driving'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'challenge' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: driving
...vy snow, cars are much more challenging to drive on the road than usual that everybody a...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, furthermore, however, if, really, second, so, still, well, as to, for example, in conclusion, such as, first of all, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 28.8173652695 38% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 55.5748502994 81% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1869.0 2260.96107784 83% => OK
No of words: 368.0 441.139720559 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07880434783 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37987740619 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77498610966 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.538043478261 0.468620217663 115% => OK
syllable_count: 588.6 705.55239521 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 67.5979232253 57.8364921388 117% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.3684210526 119.503703932 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3684210526 23.324526521 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.57894736842 5.70786347227 150% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.13905680271 0.218282227539 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0443003581399 0.0743258471296 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0447286561518 0.0701772020484 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0614525125062 0.128457276422 48% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0520297497407 0.0628817314937 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 14.3799401198 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.35 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 98.500998004 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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