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 argument states that Prunty Country should undertake the same kind of road improvement project that has been taken by Butler Country five years ago, because the Butler Country was to able to decrease percentage of the reported accident by taking the road improvement project, but the Prunty Country failed to decrease the percentage of reported accident by taking an initiative in limiting the speed. At first glance, the argument seems to plausible but careful observation reveals that it contains several flaws which make it is based on the unpersuasive assumption which is inferred from lack of evidence.
First, the author claims that the Prunty Country lowered its speed limit 55 to 45 mile per hours on all highways but this effort has been futile, and, at the same time, the highway patrol reported many drivers are exceeding the speed limit. So there is a question that arises in the claim, if the drivers, who crossed the speed limit, were responsible for the accidents, the author could not say that this effort was null to decrease the number of accidents. Perhaps the effort would have been productive to decline the number of the accident if many drivers had not exceeded the speed limit. To clarify whether this effort is unproductive or not, the author needs to examine how many drivers crossed the speed limit and what percent of them were responsible for the number of accidents.
Second, the author recommends that the Prunty Country should undertake the same kind of road improvement project that has been taken by the Butler Country five years ago. but the author fails to mention the ratio of traffic congestion to the lane width, if the ratio in the Prunty Country is now the same as in the Butler Country, it would be a worse decision for the Prunty Country to undertake the same kind of road improvement project taken by the Butler County. Regarding the ratio of traffic congestion to the lane width, the author needs to give clear evidence about the current condition of the highways in the Prunty Country.
Finally, the author merely cited that there were 25 percent fewer reported accidents in the Butler County this past year than there were five years ago after taking road improvement projects, but the author did not give the real figure about the number of accidents. if any initiative that has been taken in the butler country, it might have influenced to increase the vehicle in the butler country in this past year. Thus, the numbers of accidents were the same in the past year as they were in five years ago but percentage of the reported accidents decreased by 25 %. if this scenario is true, it must weaken the argument.
In conclusion, the argument is unpersuasive as it stands and the explanation about the speed limit and road improvement projects are not cogent enough to support its recommendation. To bolster the argument, the author needs to provide concrete evidence in the way of details analysis of the argument that it will rule out all the doubts and questions which has been arisen in this extent.
Comments
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: 12 15
No. of Words: 522 350
No. of Characters: 2487 1500
No. of Different Words: 193 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.78 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.764 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.416 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 179 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 123 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 76 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 42 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 43.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 18.369 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.833 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.43 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.72 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.17 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 185, Rule ID: TO_TOO[5]
Message: Did you mean 'too'?
Suggestion: too
...ars ago, because the Butler Country was to able to decrease percentage of the repo...
^^
Line 3, column 791, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...esponsible for the number of accidents. Second, the author recommends that the P...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 172, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: But
...n by the Butler Country five years ago. but the author fails to mention the ratio o...
^^^
Line 7, column 268, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...l figure about the number of accidents. if any initiative that has been taken in t...
^^
Line 7, column 515, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... year as they were in five years ago but percentage of the reported accidents dec...
^^
Line 7, column 573, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...e reported accidents decreased by 25 %. if this scenario is true, it must weaken t...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, if, regarding, second, so, thus, as to, in conclusion, kind of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 70.0 55.5748502994 126% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 16.3942115768 146% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2544.0 2260.96107784 113% => OK
No of words: 522.0 441.139720559 118% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87356321839 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77988695657 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47428637935 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 204.123752495 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.396551724138 0.468620217663 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 783.9 705.55239521 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 34.0 22.8473053892 149% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 77.2818794342 57.8364921388 134% => OK
Chars per sentence: 169.6 119.503703932 142% => OK
Words per sentence: 34.8 23.324526521 149% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.53333333333 5.70786347227 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.27740312839 0.218282227539 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0998534085812 0.0743258471296 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0878210398978 0.0701772020484 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.144930336449 0.128457276422 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0788724325658 0.0628817314937 125% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.9 14.3799401198 131% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.43 48.3550499002 94% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.197005988 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.56 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.23 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 96.0 98.500998004 97% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 28.0 12.3882235529 226% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 15.6 11.1389221557 140% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.9071856287 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
---------------------
Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.