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 limi

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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 writing states that proponents of the housing restriction argue that a similar legislation lead to subtle results in the Chestnut city while the opponents asserted that the housing prices were significantly increased. However, both sides need to supply additional information to make the arguments cogent. It should argue that the past situation is similar with the present, and 3 cities share various common characteristics, and finally should substantiate the increased prices.

First of all, both sides are adducing past example of housing restrictions which is not persuasive. In the case of Chestnut city, 10 years ago there were not many residents willing to move to the suburbs and thus even though the construction of new houses were limited, it has subtle effect on their prices. However, in contemporary society more people may want to live in the idyllic environment after they retire from their jobs thus increasing the influx of residents into Maple County. Hence, house prices will jump significantly compared to the past situation of Chestnut city. This example can by applied to the case of Pine county since the dissidents also quote the past incidence of this district.

Next, both sides makes a mistake by not substantiating the increased amount. In the case of Pine County, 15 years ago the economy may have been in a period of deflation, and thus the general price of all goods was low. Then if the average prices of houses were $10 for example, even a $10 increment in price will lead to a doubling of the price. Thus to corroborate that the doubling of a price is truly a enormous change, the opposition should mention the actual price change of the residentials. Similarly, Chestnut County's modest increase may also mean a $10 to $10 increase, since $10 is just a small amount to some people.

Last but not least, neither the proposition or the opposition succeeds to give information about the characteristics of the districts. Even though Chestnut County experienced a insubstantial effect in housing cost raise, it may be due to the vacancy of houses already present in the region. There is a possibility that the government decided to develop this region but after the construction of houses, residents were not attracted to this town leaving many homes available. On the other hand, the Pine town's houses may have been already saturated, thus any influx of dwellers may resulted on a huge increase in prices. Therefore, to further support the arguments, they should the differences of the 3 towns.

In conclusion, the residents of Maple town need to further support their asseverations by providing additional evidence. They should elaborate on the disparate conditions of the past and present, present the price change in objective scale, and finally supply information about the 3 cities that may affect housing prices.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, hence, however, if, may, similarly, so, then, therefore, thus, well, while, for example, in conclusion, first of all, on the other hand

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 74.0 55.5748502994 133% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2399.0 2260.96107784 106% => OK
No of words: 469.0 441.139720559 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.11513859275 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.65364457471 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87754545849 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 225.0 204.123752495 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.479744136461 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 744.3 705.55239521 105% => 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: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.7035969672 57.8364921388 72% => OK
Chars per sentence: 119.95 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.45 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.1 5.70786347227 142% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.0488946121531 0.218282227539 22% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0160709134102 0.0743258471296 22% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0202527126179 0.0701772020484 29% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0290382940986 0.128457276422 23% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0155651761803 0.0628817314937 25% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 14.3799401198 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.32208582834 104% => OK
difficult_words: 114.0 98.500998004 116% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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