"On Balmer Island, where mopeds serve as a popular form of transportation, the population increases to 100,000 during the summer months. To reduce the number of accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians, the town council of Balmer Island should limit the

Essay topics:

"On Balmer Island, where mopeds serve as a popular form of transportation, the population increases to 100,000 during the summer months. To reduce the number of accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians, the town council of Balmer Island should limit the number of mopeds rented by the island's moped rental companies from 50 per day to 25 per day during the summer season. By limiting the number of rentals, the town council will attain the 50 percent annual reduction in moped accidents that was achieved last year on the neighboring island of Seaville, when Seaville's town council enforced similar limits on moped rentals."

According to this argument, In Balmer Island mopeds serve as popular form of transportation. Accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians has increased. The town council should limit the number of mopeds rented from 50 to 25 per day, which will attain 50 percent reduction in accidents. This argument has multiple loop holes. It is not mentioned in the argument, how reduction in accidents is related to limit the number of rented mopeds. Is mopeds are also main form of transportation in Seaville for comparison. Is this limits only for summer or for whole year?

Argument assumed that, accidents between mopeds and pedestrians are only due to mopeds. With increased population, pedestrians also increased in the city. There could be a possibility that pedestrians are failing to follow traffic rules, which is causing increase in mopeds. With the time, there is no change in number of mopeds rented per day, only population has increased. There is no evidence or data provided in the argument, that accidents are happening only by rented mopeds, there could be a possibility that number of accidents are more by number of owned mopeds, not rented one or City traffic rules are not strict enough for mopeds and pedestrians. There may not be sufficient number of walkways in the city and pedestrians have to use same road which mopeds use. There is no information provided about who is mostly at fault in accidents, mopeds or pedestrians. May be city need to work on traffic rules.

Second assumption is that by limiting the moped rentals will decrease accidents by 50 percent same as Seaville city which achieved same results last year by enforcing same rules. There is no information provided that about whether mopeds is the main mean of transportation or not, is serville’s population increased also or not? What are the other efforts Seaville city made to reduce percentage of accidents, are the reduction in accidents particularly in moped and pedestrians. These question needs to be answered before enforcing same limits to the Balmer Island.

There is missing information about duration of limit of moped rentals. The argument described that the population of the city increases during summer. If population is increasing only in summer, does it mean accidents increase only in summer? There is no information about the data which is used for measure the increase in accidents is summer accidents data or whole year data. This information is required analyze before limiting number of rentals. As population only increasing in summer, there might be possibility that limitation on rentals needed only in summer.

Above assumptions and missing information can weaken the argument. City need to work more to collect data about accidents and pedestrians and information about Seaville city, what are the similarities between two cities which are making them comparable. Author may need to collect more data and do analysis before reaching to the conclusion about limiting the number of mopeds rented.

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Average: 5.8 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 776, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...have to use same road which mopeds use. There is no information provided about who is...
^^^^^
Line 7, column 345, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'accidents'' or 'accident's'?
Suggestion: accidents'; accident's
...ure the increase in accidents is summer accidents data or whole year data. This informati...
^^^^^^^^^

Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'if', 'may', 'second', 'so']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.298507462687 0.25644967241 116% => OK
Verbs: 0.188432835821 0.15541462614 121% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0522388059701 0.0836205057962 62% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0373134328358 0.0520304965353 72% => OK
Pronouns: 0.00559701492537 0.0272364105082 21% => Some pronouns wanted.
Prepositions: 0.143656716418 0.125424944231 115% => OK
Participles: 0.0578358208955 0.0416121511921 139% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.84971060509 2.79052419416 102% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0261194029851 0.026700313972 98% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.0634328358209 0.113004496875 56% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0167910447761 0.0255425247493 66% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0205223880597 0.0127820249294 161% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3017.0 2731.13054187 110% => OK
No of words: 487.0 446.07635468 109% => OK
Chars per words: 6.19507186858 6.12365571057 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69766713281 4.57801047555 103% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.396303901437 0.378187486979 105% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.287474332649 0.287650121315 100% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.213552361396 0.208842608468 102% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.154004106776 0.135150697306 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84971060509 2.79052419416 102% => OK
Unique words: 187.0 207.018472906 90% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.383983572895 0.469332199767 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 43.0287611357 52.1807786196 82% => OK
How many sentences: 28.0 20.039408867 140% => OK
Sentence length: 17.3928571429 23.2022227129 75% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.9944349705 57.7814097925 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.75 141.986410481 76% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.3928571429 23.2022227129 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.178571428571 0.724660767414 25% => More Discourse Markers wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 3.58251231527 56% => OK
Readability: 46.1402904077 51.9672348444 89% => OK
Elegance: 2.16129032258 1.8405768891 117% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.451308670812 0.441005458295 102% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.103682933102 0.135418324435 77% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0882009770436 0.0829849096947 106% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.481719242818 0.58762219726 82% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.148380147909 0.147661913831 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.169570220985 0.193483328276 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.109941778007 0.0970749176394 113% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.377129703911 0.42659136922 88% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.119877691425 0.0774707102158 155% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.319102312378 0.312017818177 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0647459062507 0.0698173142475 93% => OK

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.33743842365 48% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 19.0 6.87684729064 276% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.82512315271 104% => OK
Positive topic words: 4.0 6.46551724138 62% => OK
Negative topic words: 19.0 5.36822660099 354% => OK
Neutral topic words: 4.0 2.82389162562 142% => OK
Total topic words: 27.0 14.657635468 184% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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