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.
In the argument mentioned above, the overdevelopment of the country is the concern of the council of Maple country. Therefore, they want to restrict the development of existing farmland in the country as a proposed measure. To check the argument, two opposing examples have been brought from two different countries. Both examples are about the price changes as a result of the fulfillment of such a proposed measure. With a closer look, we can see that the argument and also two examples have some weaknesses and they are not properly formed.
Generally, the supply restriction of new housing will affect the price changes in houses. But the amount of change based on the different factors in the countries is different. In this argument, there is no evidence about these factors, such as economic and geographical conditions in each country. According to what factors these examples and arguments have been brought by the council.
According to what figures, the proponents of limiting the supply of new housing have presented such an example from Chestnut County. There are no statistics about this example. They only have mentioned that 10 years ago, Chestnut County has run a similar measure and based on the conditions that time, the price change has been modest. Are the current conditions in Maple country similar to the conditions in Chestnut County 10 years ago? We have to consider that the price change can be an influential year to year as the different conditions change. So, the consideration of such an example for the implementation of such a measure is not appropriate.
Similarly, the example of opponents has also the weaknesses mentioned above. The situation 15 years ago can not be comparable with the current situation in Maple country.
The council of Maple country should consider the current conditions in the country. For example, they should check the number of people that need to have a house. The level of income in the country should be taken into account. They have to consider whether the limitation of house supply has negative effects on the economic and social situations of the country or not. In other words, the proposed measure should be done based on the existing conditions in the country.
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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: 22 15
No. of Words: 371 350
No. of Characters: 1822 1500
No. of Different Words: 145 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.389 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.911 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.68 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 138 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 113 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 70 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 42 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 16.864 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 4.536 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.409 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.32 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.53 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.099 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, similarly, so, therefore, for example, such as, as a result, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 28.8173652695 56% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1873.0 2260.96107784 83% => OK
No of words: 371.0 441.139720559 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04851752022 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38877662729 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75063126361 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 204.123752495 74% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.409703504043 0.468620217663 87% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 580.5 705.55239521 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 22.8473053892 70% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 25.3222617898 57.8364921388 44% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 85.1363636364 119.503703932 71% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.8636363636 23.324526521 72% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.36363636364 5.70786347227 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.157003759167 0.218282227539 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0512202004856 0.0743258471296 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0494872265986 0.0701772020484 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0842274157211 0.128457276422 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0409921137005 0.0628817314937 65% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.8 14.3799401198 75% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.24 48.3550499002 114% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.197005988 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.71 12.5979740519 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.71 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 77.0 98.500998004 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 11.1389221557 75% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.9071856287 67% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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