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
In the given writing, the author concludes that in order to reduce the number of accidents and to increase the safety of highways , the Prunty County should undertake the project of improving their roads as done by the Butler County which showed decrease in the number of accidents even when the speed limit is not reduced marking it as a evidence. The following discussion unfolds the various stated as well as unstated assumptions and the effect that they have on argument.
Firstly, in order to bring the conclusion to hold ground the traffic condition on both the highways must be comparable.
There can be a scenario, for example, The Prunty County may be deals with large number of trucks and cars on day to day basis as compared to that of the Butler county which may see very less traffic. This may be the very reason for reducing the accidents on the Butler county because there are few users of these county as compared to the other. On the other hand, it may be also possible that the butler county has more traffic, but because of the improved road conditions the accidents have reduced. If the first example becomes true then the conclusion is flawed and if the second example becomes true the conclusion will be based on the second assumption of road conditions.
The author states that the road were improved five years ago, which may be possible that the road conditions have debased over this time. Moreover, we can also say that the roads on these two high ways are assumed to be comparable which may be not. For example, it may be the case that the road condition is better than the Puntry condition and therefore the conclusion is flawed.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 10 15
No. of Words: 293 350
No. of Characters: 1342 1500
No. of Different Words: 141 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.137 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.58 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.307 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 95 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 61 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 40 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 24 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 29.3 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.849 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.9 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.417 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.675 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.141 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 130, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...s and to increase the safety of highways , the Prunty County should undertake the ...
^^
Line 1, column 338, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...peed limit is not reduced marking it as a evidence. The following discussion unfo...
^
Line 5, column 57, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...r to bring the conclusion to hold ground the traffic condition on both the highwa...
^^
Line 13, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...d therefore the conclusion is flawed.
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, may, moreover, second, so, then, therefore, well, for example, as well as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 55.5748502994 56% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1383.0 2260.96107784 61% => OK
No of words: 293.0 441.139720559 66% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.72013651877 5.12650576532 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.13729897018 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38213770301 2.78398813304 86% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 204.123752495 70% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.484641638225 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 426.6 705.55239521 60% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 19.7664670659 51% => 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: 66.1635095804 57.8364921388 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 138.3 119.503703932 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.3 23.324526521 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 12.3 5.70786347227 215% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => 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: 0.151463057725 0.218282227539 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.065473378677 0.0743258471296 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0677127725001 0.0701772020484 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0978822353777 0.128457276422 76% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0649154673312 0.0628817314937 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 14.3799401198 108% => 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: 10.69 12.5979740519 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.25 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 98.500998004 60% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 17.0 12.3882235529 137% => 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: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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