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 author argues that the council of Marple County predicts that the suggested measure of preventing the development of the current farmlands in the county will significantly increase the housing prices in Maple County. This is based on the premise that this common measure was implemented in Maple County fifteen years ago and led to a significant increase in housing prices in the area. However, on deeper analysis, it is apparent that certain relevant aspects of the issue have not been taken into consideration, leading to a number of mistaken assumptions and logical flaws.
One such a flaw is the argument that due to the fact that the measure of preventing the development of farmlands in Pine County guided to the augmentation of the housing prices, this means that will happen equally to the Maple County. It is possible that these two areas present totally different rea-estate assets and thus the prices would follow a different range. To overcome this flaw, the council of Marple County should present a research implemented in Pine and Marple County, which would depict the common characteristics of the real-estate market and so it would be easily accepted the claim of the same impact of the measure.
Moreover, the council of Maple County is incorrectly based on the implementation of the same measure fifteen years ago. Though the market of real-estates is very dynamic and vulnerable to changes. The period of fifteen years is a vast period for this type of market to end up with valid conclusions. In order to strengthen this argument the council of Marple County should present a survey in a credible economic magazine which would present valid data about the equalities of the assets’ traits in these two markets and the stable situation despite the many years.
After closer examination of the passage presented, it is apparent that there are several logical flaws. The recommendations in the essay, show how the argument may strengthened and made more logically sound.
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: 12 15
No. of Words: 329 350
No. of Characters: 1639 1500
No. of Different Words: 157 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.259 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.982 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.744 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 130 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 86 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 51 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 32 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.417 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.251 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.417 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.375 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.603 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.072 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...istaken assumptions and logical flaws. One such a flaw is the argument that due...
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...aim of the same impact of the measure. Moreover, the council of Maple County is...
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...able situation despite the many years. After closer examination of the passage ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, may, moreover, so, then, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.6327345309 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 55.5748502994 88% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1671.0 2260.96107784 74% => OK
No of words: 329.0 441.139720559 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07902735562 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25891501996 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7965541093 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 159.0 204.123752495 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.483282674772 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 522.9 705.55239521 74% => 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: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 19.7664670659 61% => 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: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.9760057395 57.8364921388 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.25 119.503703932 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.4166666667 23.324526521 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.5 5.70786347227 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => 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: 0.257428035131 0.218282227539 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0943438037281 0.0743258471296 127% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.105324919633 0.0701772020484 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145403064374 0.128457276422 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0871423192121 0.0628817314937 139% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 14.3799401198 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.3550499002 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.91 8.32208582834 107% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 98.500998004 83% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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