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 country predicts that preventing the country from becoming overdeveloped by mitigating the development of its farmland can increase the prices of housing in the country considerably. This prediction can be justified if the following three questions are answered.
First of all, Does the development of farmland in Maple country directly proportional to the increase of housing prices? Perhaps the restriction of development on the farmland leave extra places for people to build houses. Thus the net area suitable for housing in the country will increase and as we all know when there is an abundance of something, the price of the thing is supposed to fall. If this is true, the prediction by the council will not hold water.
Secondly, Does the farmland provide raw material for building new houses? For instance, if the farmland, proposed to be prevented from development actually provide wood for building new houses? What if it produces corn or mustard or sunflower. This way, the prevention of existing farmland will actually suffer the initial goal of the council, that is to prevent the country from being overly developed and the target will be achieved.
Further, Does the prevention of development of the existing farmland actually ensures harnessing the country's development? For example, Maple country can be largely dependent on its automobile manufacture and assembly industries and the majority of the country's income comes from these industries. Again, if their is a decrease in farmland, people can build new automobile manufacturing factories there and consequently the country will be developing even more. If either of these is true, the issue of the development of farmland will not contribute anything to the prevention of Maple country's development.
If any of the above possibilities is true, the prediction of the council that the prevention of restricting the development of prevailing farmland would adversely affect the price of new housing will not hold water. So to come to a conclusion, the aforementioned questions need to be answered.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 3 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 332 350
No. of Characters: 1726 1500
No. of Different Words: 147 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.269 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.199 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.972 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 129 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 115 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 89 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 52 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.75 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.318 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.875 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.374 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.374 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.117 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 223, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...xtra places for people to build houses. Thus the net area suitable for housing in th...
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Line 4, column 308, Rule ID: THEIR_IS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'there'?
Suggestion: there
... comes from these industries. Again, if their is a decrease in farmland, people can b...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, consequently, first, if, second, secondly, so, thus, for example, for instance, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 13.6137724551 29% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 28.8173652695 45% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 55.5748502994 81% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1764.0 2260.96107784 78% => OK
No of words: 332.0 441.139720559 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.31325301205 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.2685907696 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.02966534703 2.78398813304 109% => OK
Unique words: 151.0 204.123752495 74% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.454819277108 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 540.9 705.55239521 77% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => 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: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.9569364758 57.8364921388 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.25 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.75 23.324526521 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.6875 5.70786347227 117% => 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: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.175531174493 0.218282227539 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0716490553221 0.0743258471296 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0585148612224 0.0701772020484 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119232391214 0.128457276422 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.014424789506 0.0628817314937 23% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.3799401198 97% => OK
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: 13.52 12.5979740519 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.39 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 98.500998004 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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