The council of Maple County, concerned about the county's becoming overdeveloped, is debating a proposed measure that would prevent the development of existing farmland in the county. But the council is also concerned that such a restriction, by limiting the supply of new housing, could lead to significant increases in the price of housing in the county. Proponents of the measure note that Chestnut County established a similar measure ten years ago, and its housing prices have increased only modestly since. However, opponents of the measure note that Pine County adopted restrictions on the development of new residential housing fifteen years ago, and its housing prices have since more than doubled. The council currently predicts that the proposed measure, if passed, will result in a significant increase in housing prices in Maple County.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the prediction and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the prediction.
The council of Maple County concludes that limiting new housing reduces overdevelopment and predicts that such restriction increaes the housing price in Maple county. They come to the conclusion based on observation of result of similar rule in other counties and their prediction. The council's assertion might be true but, following three questions must be answered to determine the credibility of the argument.
First of all, does circumvention in building new houses reduces over-development? It is possibe that the untoward development be due to more number of factories near residental areas. These factories might have polluted the air of the county, mixed the chemicals in rivers polluting the water resource and increasing land and noise pollution. Restriction in housing des not overcome the situation and proper caveat must be made for industries. It is also possible that decreasing farmland might be due to increase in shopping centers and recreational parks not due to consruction of new houses. If any of these scenarios have merit, then the argument is significantly flawed.
Secondly, can the observation from other counties that too from decades ago be immaculately used to forecast the housing price in the Maple county? Perhaps in Chestnut county ten years ago, the unpromptu development was so worse that very few people wanted to shift to the county as well as people who were living in that county started migrating to other areas resulting in modest increase in housing price. But, in Pine County fifteen years ago, due to more infrastructure high influx of new residents did not change causing to increase in housing price severly. If these are true, then the argument does not hold water.
Fianlly, do controlling the building of new houses increase the housing price in Maple county? Perhaps apartment system may flourish,accomodating large number of families in a single house in less price. Also, the people building new houses may now increase the levels of exixting houses neutralizing the drawback of building new houses. Further there might not be more new residents in the county compared to previous years so, there will notbe greater demand of new housing. If any of these cases are true, it hinders the persuasiveness of the conclusion of the argument.
In conclusion, the argument, as it stands now, is considerably flawed due to its reliance on unwarranted assumptions. If the council is able to provide answers to these three questions (perhaps based on systematic study approach), then the viability of the arguent can fully be evaluated
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 416 350
No. of Characters: 2121 1500
No. of Different Words: 204 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.516 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.099 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.839 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 158 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 121 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 91 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 53 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.8 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.4 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.7 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.315 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.315 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.042 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 287, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'councils'' or 'council's'?
Suggestion: councils'; council's
...ther counties and their prediction. The councils assertion might be true but, following ...
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Line 3, column 314, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...county as well as people who were living in that county started migrating to othe...
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Line 3, column 529, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'increasing'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'cause' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: increasing
...of new residents did not change causing to increase in housing price severly. If these are ...
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Line 4, column 132, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , accomodating
...y? Perhaps apartment system may flourish,accomodating large number of families in a single ho...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, well, in conclusion, as well as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 55.5748502994 106% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2167.0 2260.96107784 96% => OK
No of words: 415.0 441.139720559 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.22168674699 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51348521516 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96964465456 2.78398813304 107% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 204.123752495 103% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.50843373494 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 671.4 705.55239521 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.1384689112 57.8364921388 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 108.35 119.503703932 91% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.75 23.324526521 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.70786347227 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.187378120508 0.218282227539 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.057605255469 0.0743258471296 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0702313271975 0.0701772020484 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.114394025398 0.128457276422 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0822969159725 0.0628817314937 131% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.3799401198 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.0 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.0 8.32208582834 108% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 98.500998004 117% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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