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.
A highly important issue of highway safety is discussed here for the Prunty County. The failure of its past effort to decrease accidents has lead to the suggestion that the County should follow the strategy that was successful for the Butler County. The argument provides a strong result for the failure of the previous policy in Prunty County as well as a detailed list of improvements that were successful in Butler County. Nonetheless, the arguement does not account for the evaluations that need to be made before implimenting the adopted policy from Butler County.
One such evaluation will be a detailed comparisions of the present conditions of the roads in both Counties, their climate conditions throughout the year and the policies relating to car safety in general. These comparisions are important to correctly estimate that similar positive results can be obtain in Prunty County as well. The comparision of the roads will educate us about exact need of changes in lane widths or resurfacing. If the issue in Prunty County, unlike Butler County, does not lie on the conditions of the roads, the project will be a waste of time, energy and capital. More importantly, the climate in both areas throughout the year will determine the cause and restriction of the accidents. For instance, if the climate in Prunty County, unlike Butler County, is such that it leads to accumulation of dry ice which causes high number of accidents. Then the project that worked for Butler County will not benefit Prunty County as the reason for accident is completely different. Taking this forward, the policies about the car safety can help in understanding comparision of causes of accidents in both Counties. If the Prunty County does not have the policy to change to winter tires when it snows, but Butler County does, then it is certianly not the highway responsible and again that policy adopted will be ineffective.
Another important evaluations needed before the adopted policy can be implemented is the flow and peak times of the traffic in both Counties. If the flow her and peak time in during the day in Butler County, and the opposite is true for Prunty County then once again the prime reason is missed by applying the policy adopted from the Butler County, as high number of accidents tend to occur during nightime. Hence, if all the evaluations and some important surveys about the economic and demecratic standing of this policies come out to be positive then it can be estimated very well that the policy adopted from Butler County will increase highway safety in Prunty County.
Comments
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: 16 15
No. of Words: 434 350
No. of Characters: 2123 1500
No. of Different Words: 180 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.564 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.892 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.567 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 175 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 98 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 70 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.125 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.4 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.625 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.397 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.513 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.12 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 3 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 9, column 512, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...the economic and demecratic standing of this policies come out to be positive then i...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, hence, if, nonetheless, so, then, well, for instance, in general, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 60.0 55.5748502994 108% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2167.0 2260.96107784 96% => OK
No of words: 434.0 441.139720559 98% => OK
Chars per words: 4.9930875576 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56428161445 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.64073092749 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 204.123752495 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.421658986175 0.468620217663 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 685.8 705.55239521 97% => 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: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => 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: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.6979027549 57.8364921388 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.4375 119.503703932 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.125 23.324526521 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0625 5.70786347227 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 5.15768463074 58% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => 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: 0.15011907327 0.218282227539 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0620148377358 0.0743258471296 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0451379643503 0.0701772020484 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.118787670731 0.128457276422 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.00437906100243 0.0628817314937 7% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 14.3799401198 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.3550499002 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.96 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.07 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 98.500998004 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
---------------------
Minimum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 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.