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 man

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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

None of evidence provided by the author is strong enough to prove that Prunty City should forgo the policy of lowering the speed limits and adopt the road improvement project as Bulter City did. The author must explain the following unsubstatiated assumptions to strenghten the claim.

The author argues that lowering the speed limits in Prunty City is ineffective because the number of accidents hasn't decreased and many drivers are exceeding the speed limits. However, **it seems to assumed that the law is correct enforced and the drivers are universally educated with new regulations.** The highway police in Prunty City may be inadvertent to enforce the new regluation because there has existed a distrust between the legislature and the administrative sector in Prunty City for a long time. Maybe the regulation was just announced last year, most citizens aren't notice the change of the speed limits. Only novice drives who got their licenes last year know the change because they had to scrutinize the traffic regulations to pass the driving exam. The rest of drivers who may used to the speed limits for more than thirty years. The author should provide the information about how hard the city government educated their citizens last year. In fact, the consquence of lowering the speed limits may take effect after a few years.

The author mentions that Prunty City should take the same kind of road improvement project that Butler County did. However, **it seems to assume that the conditions of both cities before the improvements are comparable.** What if the territory of Prunty City doesn't allow to broaden the lane widths? What if the quality of the highway in Prunty City has been the best compared with other cities, even better thant that of Bulter County? What if the Prunty City has already established a row of lights along both sides of the highyway without discontinuity? Maybe the reason lying under the accidents resides in the driving habits of the residents in Prunty City instead of the quality of the hightway and related hardware.

The author argues that the number of car accidents in Butler County was decreased by 25% without lowering the speed limit after the road improvement project. However, **it seems to assume that the road improvement project directly accounts for the accidents without other possible factors**. Maybe the residents in Bulter County gradually realize their driving habits are quite dangerous, such as randomly switching between two lanes, after traveling to other cities. Even though the significant decrease is entirely attributed to the road improvement project, it may result from the fact that the road conditions are quite poor and dangerous that made the improvement critical. Maybe the number of accidents will further decrease significantly after the government lowers the speed limits.

To strenghthen the claim, the author must explain what he or she took for granted.

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Average: 6.8 (2 votes)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, so, then, in fact, kind of, such as

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.6327345309 66% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 55.5748502994 104% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2471.0 2260.96107784 109% => OK
No of words: 477.0 441.139720559 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.18029350105 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.67336384929 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59726007191 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 221.0 204.123752495 108% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.463312368973 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 756.9 705.55239521 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.5589046108 57.8364921388 100% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.55 119.503703932 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.85 23.324526521 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.9 5.70786347227 51% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.213903043142 0.218282227539 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0705678442241 0.0743258471296 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0526740260364 0.0701772020484 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103856896889 0.128457276422 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0621597822935 0.0628817314937 99% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.06 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.15 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 98.500998004 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => 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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