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.
To the given prompt it is argued from the council of Maple County to prevent the developement of new housing in order to prevent the overdevelopement of the country - will result in increment of price of houses. Both the proponents and opponents have been introduced in the prompt; however, neither of those are holding firm conducive result for the Maple council to take any decision. Necessary assumptions are underlied the argument of the council's proposal; such as -
1. The council is taking the "overdevelopment" decision with regarding only to the infrastructure development of the country.
2. It is necessary to prevent the development of the housing land in order to thwart the same of the county.
3. The members of the council assumed that preventing the development of the existing farmland will result in the price hike of residential houses.
4. People of the Maple County are not solvent enough to buy houses for their incentives.
Before coming to a certain discloser these assumptions are to be addressed with clearity and logically.
To begin with - the development of a county is not solely based on the structural development of the county. It can be obvious that a county is having a great development of its roads and highs, its buildings and hotels. However, these are the "one of the parameters" but not all to discern whether a county is overdeveloped or not. What if the county has conducted foreign affairs to mantain a better roadside and highway safety or infrastructure - which we can see in ample for many developing counties. If that is the case, then it will might not be a real idea that the Maple City is already overdeveloped.
Then comes- even if it is firmed that the Maple County is overdeveloped- then will it be good idea to put a restriction on the housing practice? The prompt does not give clear idea about the population of the Maple City. If the county's population to farmland ratio is poor then it might be good choice to put a break on the residential development. Howver, if the alternative is true then it might not be great idea to do it. So, more information is required to see off this assumption from the consideration.
After that, both from the proponents and the opponents of Chestnut County and Pine County respectively- the later has been tried to be analogous to the Maple County. But the council is missing an important point here, that is to say - the per capita income of that county might not be same or even lower than that of the Maple County. If that is not the case - then there might be no harm to accept the analogy. But if the case is otherwise - then the council will nothing but have to repredict.
Looking over all the factors presented above it might not be a good idea to ignore certain implicated assumptions and it is necessary to get clear pictures of these before coming to any certain conclusions.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 9 2
No. of Sentences: 27 15
No. of Words: 501 350
No. of Characters: 2315 1500
No. of Different Words: 213 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.731 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.621 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.796 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 154 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 110 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 73 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 58 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.556 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.792 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.519 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.273 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.506 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.064 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 7 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 443, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'councils'' or 'council's'?
Suggestion: councils'; council's
...tions are underlied the argument of the councils proposal; such as - 1. The council ...
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Line 1, column 471, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ment of the councils proposal; such as - 1. The council is taking the 'overd...
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Line 10, column 16, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...earity and logically. To begin with - the development of a county is not solel...
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Line 12, column 222, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...about the population of the Maple City. If the countys population to farmland rati...
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Line 14, column 336, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...en lower than that of the Maple County. If that is not the case - then there might...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, look, regarding, so, then, in conclusion, such as, to begin with, that is to say
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 35.0 19.6327345309 178% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 72.0 55.5748502994 130% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2415.0 2260.96107784 107% => OK
No of words: 501.0 441.139720559 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.82035928144 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73107062784 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.03667813043 2.78398813304 109% => OK
Unique words: 216.0 204.123752495 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.431137724551 0.468620217663 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 763.2 705.55239521 108% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.6831549001 57.8364921388 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.0 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7826086957 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.26086956522 5.70786347227 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 10.0 5.15768463074 194% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.292895451984 0.218282227539 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0894471257904 0.0743258471296 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.064800844143 0.0701772020484 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120151041867 0.128457276422 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0754884443875 0.0628817314937 120% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 14.3799401198 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.68 12.5979740519 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 98.500998004 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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