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 in the article has suggested the Prunty County must adopt the solutions implemented by the Butler County to improve the Highway safety, since the solutions implemented by the Prunty County failed. There are a lot of loop holes and error in the comparison made and the related solutions given to improvise the highway safety in Prunty County. The solutions given to improvise the highway safety in Prunty County is certainly not strong enough to get the desired results.
Firstly, it has been suggested that Prunty County must adopt the methods implemented by Bulter County, but Butler county had increased their lane width , which can been done in Prunty as well, but for increasing the lane width, the area required to widen the lane would need space, also it will take a while for the roads to be constructed in order to reduce the highway accidents. Butler County took five years to carry out the highway safety, so if Prunty must carry out so it will need sometime to widen their lane.
Also, the percent of incidents reported in Butler County is also dubious, as the percent reported in the argument is for only the past year. To analyze the effects of safety measures taken by Butler County, we need the no of incidents reported in last five years after the safety measures were implemented. The movement of vehicles on the highway in Butler County and Prunty County is also not clear, whether how many numbers of vehicles commute from their highway, so to compare, it is required to have proper data. A proper data of all the accidents occurred in the years after highway safety implemented.
Secondly, even after reducing the speed limit in Prunty County the accidents have not been decereased, there can be various reason, the drivers must not be aware about the changes made in the speed limit because of which the they might be exceeding the speed limit. There must be some sign boards to show the passing by drivers about the change in the speed limit. If the speed limit was inidcated the possibility of drivers exceeding speed limit would have been lesser.
To achieve highway safety, Prunty County needs to show or tell the passing by drivers about the reduced speed limit, so that there are lesser accidents and speed limit is not exceeded. The solution provided by the author requires more clarification, how would the solution would help achieve highway safety in Prunty County.
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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: 14 15
No. of Words: 413 350
No. of Characters: 1956 1500
No. of Different Words: 164 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.508 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.736 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.269 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 144 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 88 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 50 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 30 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 29.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.152 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.424 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.697 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.218 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 152, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...er county had increased their lane width , which can been done in Prunty as well, ...
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Line 5, column 161, Rule ID: PRP_PAST_PART[4]
Message: Did you mean 'can be' or 'has been'?
Suggestion: can be; has been
... had increased their lane width , which can been done in Prunty as well, but for increas...
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Line 5, column 296, Rule ID: VB_A_WHILE[1]
Message: Did you mean 'take awhile'?
Suggestion: take awhile
...the lane would need space, also it will take a while for the roads to be constructed in orde...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 220, Rule ID: NOW[2]
Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: now
...res taken by Butler County, we need the no of incidents reported in last five year...
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Line 13, column 222, Rule ID: DT_PRP[1]
Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'the' or 'they'?
Suggestion: the; they
...ade in the speed limit because of which the they might be exceeding the speed limit. The...
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Line 13, column 366, 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.
...rs about the change in the speed limit. If the speed limit was inidcated the possi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, well, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 13.6137724551 29% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 11.0 28.8173652695 38% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 55.5748502994 104% => 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: 2017.0 2260.96107784 89% => OK
No of words: 413.0 441.139720559 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.88377723971 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.50803742585 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.35114375641 2.78398813304 84% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 204.123752495 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.411622276029 0.468620217663 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 634.5 705.55239521 90% => 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: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 29.0 22.8473053892 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 74.642412849 57.8364921388 129% => OK
Chars per sentence: 144.071428571 119.503703932 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.5 23.324526521 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.57142857143 5.70786347227 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.309001313535 0.218282227539 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.125415807398 0.0743258471296 169% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.062265779877 0.0701772020484 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.180621433553 0.128457276422 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0403796860151 0.0628817314937 64% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.3 14.3799401198 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.5 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.62 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.98 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 98.500998004 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.1389221557 122% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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