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.
The author of the argument claim that if the council of Maple County, limiting the supply of new housing, could lead to significant increases in the price of housing in the county. To support his view, he talked about the Pine County, who adopted restrictions on the development of new residential housing fifteen years ago, and its housing prices have since more than doubled.
To determine the validity of the argument, we must understand whether limiting the supply of new houses will affect the price of houses in the country or not. To determine the effectiveness recommendation, it would be important to analyze whether this measure will able to resolve the problem of overdeveloping.
The country considers two scenarios for their plans to place a restriction on the supply of new housing, citing overdevelopment as a reason. First, that the Proponents of the measure note that Chestnut County established a similar measure ten years ago, and its housing prices have increased only modestly since. Second, that the Pine County adopted restrictions on the development of new residential housing fifteen years ago, and its housing prices have since more than doubled. But in both of the scenarios, he failed to provide any evidence or report that shows the same or the real reason for the increase in the price of the house in both the regions.
Moreover, the government overlooks the possibility that other factors might be responsible for the increase in the prices of houses. It is entirely possible that the price of houses was increased due to coincidence with a period of global economic recession. Alternatively, the price of houses can be changed due to an increase in the price of building materials such as brick, cement, etc. Unless the council considers and rule out these alternative explanations, I remain unconvinced.
In sum, we can say that the author's argument is based on the unclear and unsubstantiated assumption. In order to evaluate the merit of the argument, we need more information and data regarding the point mentioned in the argument. To make the argument stronger, the author needs to outline the outcome of such a proposed ban will have.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 360 350
No. of Characters: 1776 1500
No. of Different Words: 173 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.356 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.933 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.84 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 132 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 100 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 65 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 41 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.714 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.909 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.382 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.656 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.194 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 222, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...To support his view, he talked about the Pine County, who adopted restrictions on...
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Line 5, column 160, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... price of houses in the country or not. To determine the effectiveness recommendat...
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Line 13, column 10, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...use in both the regions. Moreover, the government overlooks the possibility...
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Line 17, column 29, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...nced. In sum, we can say that the authors argument is based on the unclear and un...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, look, moreover, regarding, second, so, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 19.6327345309 31% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 55.5748502994 101% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1834.0 2260.96107784 81% => OK
No of words: 360.0 441.139720559 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09444444444 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.35587717469 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92485622734 2.78398813304 105% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 204.123752495 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.494444444444 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 575.1 705.55239521 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 4.96107784431 202% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.0071102685 57.8364921388 52% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 122.266666667 119.503703932 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.0 23.324526521 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.13333333333 5.70786347227 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0983482486625 0.218282227539 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.036442624945 0.0743258471296 49% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.046378166066 0.0701772020484 66% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0578309706581 0.128457276422 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0489641435945 0.0628817314937 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 14.3799401198 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.54 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.64 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 98.500998004 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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