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 passage speaks about the general concerns of the Maple County council over their country’s overdevelopment and the suitable measures taken to overcome it. The council members however are highly capricious with their judgement, having both supporters and opponents to their chosen measures. Both divisions of people compare the result of such measures in other counties. However, the measures taken by the council members and their reasoning seems to be highly flawed.
Firstly, the council members, both the supporters and the opponents, compare the results of such measures taken in other counties. However, their comparison involves completely different timelines. Comparing the results of any development plan 5-10 years ago and the present times seems to be highly flawed. The trends of housing prices in different counties may have doubled or increased marginally, but such trends cannot be perceived as a fixed trend in the future. Developmental plans, at the present, can give better results i.e it cannot be said with surety that housing prices will grow more than double or marginal changes. It is completely incorrect to perceive the past trends in other counties as to be permanent in future too.
Secondly, the council members made comparisons with other counties for their justification. However, it cannot be assumed that or there is no data to prove that the population or the rate of development of the compared counties were same as that of the Maple County. Maybe the population in Chestnut County may have been lesser and their developmental rate would not have been at Maple’s level. Similarly, Pine County would have had lesser or more population compared to Maple. Implementing the same measures in different counties with different developmental rate and population cannot provide accurate comparison results.
Thirdly, the council’s prediction that implementing the proposed measure will increase the housing prices in future seems incorrect. It is not justifiable to predict the future housing prices with the present trends treating them as eternally true. There seems to be certain ambiguity associated with the word ‘significant’ increase as mentioned in the concluding statement.
In conclusion, the opinions of different council members over a proposed measure to curb overdevelopment seems to be highly flawed in different aspects. Comparing results of past trends to the present seems inaccurate. Also, comparison done among non-similar things cannot be truly accepted. Similarly, the future result of any measure cannot be surely predicted considering the current trends.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 6 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 402 350
No. of Characters: 2163 1500
No. of Different Words: 176 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.478 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.381 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.784 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 183 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 138 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 92 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 61 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.273 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.144 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.636 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.319 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.528 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.095 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 331, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[3]
Message: You should probably use 'price'.
Suggestion: price
...be highly flawed. The trends of housing prices in different counties may have doubled ...
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Line 7, column 376, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... mentioned in the concluding statement. In conclusion, the opinions of different...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, similarly, so, third, thirdly, as to, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 55.5748502994 95% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2232.0 2260.96107784 99% => OK
No of words: 401.0 441.139720559 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.56608478803 5.12650576532 109% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47492842339 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9127246097 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 181.0 204.123752495 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.451371571072 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 685.8 705.55239521 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
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: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 32.6751162682 57.8364921388 56% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 101.454545455 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2272727273 23.324526521 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.18181818182 5.70786347227 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.67664670659 257% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.239412059191 0.218282227539 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0772356693145 0.0743258471296 104% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0715028312358 0.0701772020484 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137160800254 0.128457276422 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0706581053987 0.0628817314937 112% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.03 12.5979740519 119% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.43 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 98.500998004 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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