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 argument state that the council of Maple county is concerned about the overdevlopment of county which will impede the development of existing farmland. Moreover, the council is also worried about the restrictions, if they limit the supply of new housing it will eventually increase the prices of new housing. However, before this argument to be evaluated properly, two questions must be answered.
First of all, has the development of existing farmland hampered due to overdevelopment of maple county? In other words, can the causation of underdevelop farmland be due to unfavourable weather conditions, or animals feeding on it? It is possible that due to unfavourable weather conditions the farmlands were in a state of undeveloped condition. The heavy rains have stunted the flowering of the plant, which in turn reduced the pods it yielded or the droughts in which the soil could not absorb as much water needed for plantation. Moreover, animals could also be a reason due to the underdeveloped condition of the farmland. The animals intervening the farms may damage the crops feeding upon them. Although, the overdevelopment of county has misconstrued the council about the inattention towards the farmlands.
Secondly, are the opponents firm with their assumption that thee adoption of restrictions on developing pine county which had lead in the hike of housing prices? Can circumstances of Pine county be used to make generalizations or prediction about the Maple county. It is possible that the situation of Pine county before 15 years could be different than now. The vicinity of Pine county was not so developed than now it is, which has shopping complex, museum, fitness center, restaurants, offices, workplace studios or park. This could be a reason for hike in price. Another supporting readon could be the materials used to construct or renovate the residence in the county could be expensive which lead to the hike of price. The current residence might have expensive glossy tiles on floor, or expensive woods used to decorate a living could result in the hike of price. However, the opponents have belied to provide a thorough evidence about the pine county.
In conclusion, the argument, as it stands now, is considerably flawed due to its reliance on their assumptions. If the author is able to answer the two questions above and offer more evidence, then it will be possible to assume in significant increase in housing prices in Maple County.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 402 350
No. of Characters: 2020 1500
No. of Different Words: 189 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.478 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.025 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.89 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 148 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 112 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 84 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 53 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.1 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.648 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.55 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.316 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.502 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.109 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 703, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “Although” 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.
...may damage the crops feeding upon them. Although, the overdevelopment of county has misc...
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Line 5, column 167, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[2]
Message: The verb 'Can' requires the base form of the verb: 'circumstance'
Suggestion: circumstance
...lead in the hike of housing prices? Can circumstances of Pine county be used to make generali...
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Line 5, column 350, Rule ID: RATHER_THEN[2]
Message: Did you mean 'different 'from''? 'Different than' is often considered colloquial style.
Suggestion: from
...unty before 15 years could be different than now. The vicinity of Pine county was no...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, may, moreover, second, secondly, so, then, in conclusion, first of all, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 59.0 55.5748502994 106% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 16.3942115768 134% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2072.0 2260.96107784 92% => OK
No of words: 402.0 441.139720559 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.15422885572 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47771567384 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96916677501 2.78398813304 107% => OK
Unique words: 195.0 204.123752495 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.485074626866 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 648.9 705.55239521 92% => 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: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 37.6269517766 57.8364921388 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.6 119.503703932 87% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1 23.324526521 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.6 5.70786347227 98% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.67664670659 257% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.193363618749 0.218282227539 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0662505772534 0.0743258471296 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0825992860442 0.0701772020484 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123241264711 0.128457276422 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0651836281156 0.0628817314937 104% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
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: 12.59 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.6 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 98.500998004 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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