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.
There are significant loopholes in the above argument. In order to validate the argument further information are required. Presently the whole argument has very little premise to it.
The present decision of restricting the development has been taken on the basis that Maple Countrty is becoming overdeveloped. The idea of overdevelopment needs to be explained and explored further. How did they reach to such conclusion? Based on some survey or looking at the ratio of farmland to housing? These questions have been left unclear. Overdeveloped can also mean that the resources like farm produce and basic amenities such as schools and health facilities in the area are unable to support the present population. Further, it can also point towards the decreasing greenery or depleting groundwater, which is unable to suffice the needs of the people and are overstrained. If they dicuss the details then much of these can have different remedies. Untill the details of these intial conjecture is discussed its difficult to have a proper outcome.
Moreover, Maple County's case has been compared to two other Counties, though there is significant difference in what happened in Chestnut County and Pine County. The increase in price in Pine county can be due different reason like may be it's one of the most well connected part of the province while Chestnut county is not. Or possibly the price of housing at Pine County was basically much lower than Chestnut Country, so due to such restrictions buyers thought that this is the best opportunity to occupy these property. So even after the price double itself but still it was much cheaper than Chestnut County's initial price.
Moreover, there can be significant change in the economy over the time like 15 years ago the economy was doing well and people were buying properties; then in five years after, there was this stock market crash and the economy dipped. The housing bubble can be a possible reason, that previous to the stock market crash peaople were buying properties at high price, even by taking loans from banks. As the housing bubble developed and burst in 2008 people did not have enough money and banks were not providing the loans as well.So they should look into the present economic condition.
The prediction that council reached looks premature they should pay attention to the other factors before taking such a rash decision. By looking into the different case they may come up with different solution.
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Essay evaluation 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: 21 15
No. of Words: 410 350
No. of Characters: 2032 1500
No. of Different Words: 219 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.5 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.956 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.53 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 145 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 107 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 74 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 42 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.524 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.878 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.476 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.258 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.513 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.083 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 687, 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.
...eds of the people and are overstrained. If they dicuss the details then much of th...
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Line 5, column 509, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this property' or 'these properties'?
Suggestion: this property; these properties
... this is the best opportunity to occupy these property. So even after the price double itself ...
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Line 7, column 530, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: So
...ks were not providing the loans as well.So they should look into the present econo...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, may, moreover, so, still, then, well, while, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2077.0 2260.96107784 92% => OK
No of words: 409.0 441.139720559 93% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.0782396088 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49708221141 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61525246114 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 204.123752495 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.545232273839 0.468620217663 116% => OK
syllable_count: 643.5 705.55239521 91% => 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: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => 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: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 56.8033166289 57.8364921388 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.9047619048 119.503703932 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4761904762 23.324526521 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.47619047619 5.70786347227 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => 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: 0.0974539624905 0.218282227539 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0276507274071 0.0743258471296 37% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0369768005909 0.0701772020484 53% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0446946836129 0.128457276422 35% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.034916652767 0.0628817314937 56% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 14.3799401198 85% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.18 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.32 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 98.500998004 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 5.0 12.3882235529 40% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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