Downtown Zurzi is becoming increasingly congested with traffic, increasing commuting time for those who work downtown or near downtown. The nearby city of Loft was faced with the same problem several years ago and implemented a small weekly tax for driving one’s car downtown. Downtown traffic almost immediately subsided in Loft and the local government also raised much needed money for fixing roads elsewhere. Obviously, this plan should be implemented in Zurzi in order to solve the brewing traffic congestion problem.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The argument states Zurzi should implement the weekly tax policy in order to decrease the problem of traffic congestion in its road. In support of this claim presents facts of the nearby city, where same problem some years ago, solving that problem with taxes. Obviously, there could be vast difference between the nature of traffic of the Downtown and Zurzi, totally different people might be travelling each day in the area. Additionally, the fact of the downtown was several of years ago that is very likely to change with time. Having all these suspicious holes in the claim there needs to be enough evidence to guarantee the conclusion.
If the small weekly tax on traffic, which almost immediately lowered the traffic of Downtown, is to be blindfolded assumed to do same in Zurzi; we are in great trouble, the people may commute to Zurzi for important and everyday work, such as office, meetings, conference which are to be done even if tax are to be paid. This can be a case the people commuting to Downtown were a more miser and go there for entertainment purpose so they start to go other place when tax started, but Zurzi people can be affluent and prodigal with no this to be harmed by small tax. In this way, if Zurzi traffic is not afraid of tax or is willing to pay in one or other way, evidence is needed that the traffic is redundant to pay tax and thus not go to Zurzi.
Secondly, the time frame in which the argument works is flawed. The other city was implementing it year ago and for that Zurzi is now supposed to emulate the same. However, nobody can claim time doesn't matters in people behavior, simply people nature can change and same thing can be ineffective. Also, the people commuting to Zurzi now think that paying tax had improved roads in other areas so it’s a boon for us to pay it, we will be served better. All in all, the evidence bolstering that difference in time doesn't makes the policy is a most for the claim to hold right ground.
At last, the presenter should be searching for evidence that, for the same policy of small weekly tax to reduce traffic, people of these two place are alike in nature and behave or response in same way. The evidence that the time years ago and these day are similar in case of tax and traffic relation. If these criteria holds it’s likely its claim the conclusion.
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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: 16 15
No. of Words: 425 350
No. of Characters: 1870 1500
No. of Different Words: 190 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.54 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.4 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.292 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 117 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 76 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 49 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 25 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.562 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.48 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.438 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.333 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.531 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.084 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 530, Rule ID: NOW[2]
Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: now
...eople can be affluent and prodigal with no this to be harmed by small tax. In this...
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Line 3, column 195, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...he same. However, nobody can claim time doesnt matters in people behavior, simply peop...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 517, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...ence bolstering that difference in time doesnt makes the policy is a most for the clai...
^^^^^^
Line 4, column 244, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this day' or 'these days'?
Suggestion: this day; these days
...he evidence that the time years ago and these day are similar in case of tax and traffic ...
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Line 4, column 370, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...apos;s likely its claim the conclusion.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, thus, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 55.5748502994 101% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1928.0 2260.96107784 85% => OK
No of words: 423.0 441.139720559 96% => OK
Chars per words: 4.55791962175 5.12650576532 89% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.53508145475 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.38052896707 2.78398813304 86% => OK
Unique words: 197.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.465721040189 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 616.5 705.55239521 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 64.2747702738 57.8364921388 111% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.5 119.503703932 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.4375 23.324526521 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0 5.70786347227 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
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: 0.327918970879 0.218282227539 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.119379039491 0.0743258471296 161% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.081414672762 0.0701772020484 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.212426140085 0.128457276422 165% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0502325890541 0.0628817314937 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.55 48.3550499002 111% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.46 12.5979740519 75% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.84 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 98.500998004 79% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => 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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