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.
The author of the current report discusses the concern of the council of the Maple County about the county becoming overdeveloped. Therefore, the council is debating a proposed measure that would prevent the development of existing farmland in the county.
The proponents of the measure point out the example of the Chestnut County whose housing prices have increased only modestly after implementing same measure. The opponents of the measure state that the Pine County adopted the measures fifteen years ago, and its housing prices have more than doubled. The housing prices also depend on the population in the county and the population migrating in and out of the county which indirectly depends upon the employment opportunities. So, if there is not much demand of housing, the prices wont go up. So we need to know whether there are similar job opportunities available in the Pine and the Chestnut County.
The measures in the Chestnut and the Pine county were adopted ten years and fifteen years ago respectively. In such long periods of time that housing rents are expected to increase. But, the housing rents have increased modestly in the Chestnut county and become more than double in the Pine County. Therefore, we need to know whether the value of money ten or fifteen years ago is same as the value of money in the present times.
The council is of the opinion that if the measure is passed, it will result in significant increase in the housing rents. So, we cannot predict that the proposed measure will only result in the significant increase in the housing prices. We also need to know that the Maple County is similar to which of the two County's in respect to the geographical location, the employment rate, population and the availability of amenities like schools, colleges, hospitals, etc.
Therefore, the prediction of the council based only of the study of the two County's is not right. They also need to ponder upon the above mentioned points and also take more number of County's into consideration for studying, before making predictions.
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: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 346 350
No. of Characters: 1688 1500
No. of Different Words: 145 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.313 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.879 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.591 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 127 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 95 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 56 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 32 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.067 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.413 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.414 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.414 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.193 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 302, 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.
... housing prices have more than doubled. The housing prices also depend on the popul...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, so, therefore
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.6327345309 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 28.8173652695 45% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 55.5748502994 92% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1723.0 2260.96107784 76% => OK
No of words: 346.0 441.139720559 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.97976878613 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31289638616 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.66336183695 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 204.123752495 73% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.433526011561 0.468620217663 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 548.1 705.55239521 78% => 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: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => 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: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.8817547607 57.8364921388 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.6875 119.503703932 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.625 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.75 5.70786347227 31% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 6.88822355289 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.365567450518 0.218282227539 167% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.126103289132 0.0743258471296 170% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.121083175683 0.0701772020484 173% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.251268220749 0.128457276422 196% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.19776662649 0.0628817314937 315% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.3799401198 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.83 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 98.500998004 70% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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