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 prompt claims that, because the weekly tax on driving into downtown was effective in reducing the traffic problem in city of Loft, the city of Zurzi should impliment the same tax to reduce its traffic problem. However, the prompt's deicision is too hasty. What works for the city of Loft is not necassarily the best policy for the city of Zurzi. More research should be conducted and more evidcence need to be gathered to decide whether the driving tax is appropiate for city of Zurzi.
More information is needed to decide if a traffic tax will in fact reduce traffic problem in downtown Zurzi. It could be the case that city of Loft has a mature and extensive public transportation system. After the tax is imposed, it is easy for citizens to switch to using public transportation to go to downtown. If the city of Zurzi does not have such a robust system of public trasportation, even after the traffic tax is in place, citizens will be forced to still drive to downtown and pay the tax regargless. Thus it the tax will be ineffective and just an annoyance for the citizens.
The city of Zurzi should consider what the money from the traffic tax should be used. It could be the case that the city of Loft funneled the tax money it gathered into public project like building new highways, fixing exsiting roads, and expanding public tranportation. if the city of Zurzi have equally or better usage of the potential income from the traffic tax that will benefit the city and solve the traffic problem long term, it may be a good policy to gather traffic tax. For this case, the traffic tax can publicized as a short term measure to reduce traffic while the city works on long term solutions with the money obtained from the traffic tax. The prospect of a better Zurzi from the traffic tax would boost the popularity of the policy and make it more favorable to the citizens.
The prompt acts as if traffic tax is the only policy that could reduce traffic in downtown. Reasearch should be conducted to ascertain whether there are better alternative policies that suit the city of Zurzi more. For example, city of Zurzi could reduce the price of public transportation in the city to encourage people to use buses or subway. The city could build more protection for bikers in the city, making it safer for people to commute with bikes. The city could also impliment shuttle buses that transport people from commercial areas to residential areas, thus reduce the cars on the road. These alternative policies, if more favorable, would greatly reduce the desirableness of the traffic tax.
The prompt made a simple analogy and claimed that the city of Zurzi should impliment traffic tax just because the city Loft did so and was effective. However, it did not consider the differences between the cities that might make the policy more or less effective. Thus more evidence, like the intrasturcute and economic of the city and the availability of alternative policies, should be gathered before the city decides to impose the traffic tax.
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Essay evaluation report
Sentence: The prompt claims that, because the weekly tax on driving into downtown was effective in reducing the traffic problem in city of Loft, the city of Zurzi should impliment the same tax to reduce its traffic problem.
Error: impliment Suggestion: implement
Sentence: However, the prompt's deicision is too hasty.
Error: deicision Suggestion: decision
Sentence: What works for the city of Loft is not necassarily the best policy for the city of Zurzi.
Error: necassarily Suggestion: necessarily
Sentence: More research should be conducted and more evidcence need to be gathered to decide whether the driving tax is appropiate for city of Zurzi.
Error: evidcence Suggestion: evidence
Error: appropiate Suggestion: appropriate
Sentence: If the city of Zurzi does not have such a robust system of public trasportation, even after the traffic tax is in place, citizens will be forced to still drive to downtown and pay the tax regargless.
Error: trasportation Suggestion: transportation
Error: regargless Suggestion: regardless
Sentence: It could be the case that the city of Loft funneled the tax money it gathered into public project like building new highways, fixing exsiting roads, and expanding public tranportation. if the city of Zurzi have equally or better usage of the potential income from the traffic tax that will benefit the city and solve the traffic problem long term, it may be a good policy to gather traffic tax.
Error: tranportation Suggestion: transportation
Error: exsiting Suggestion: exciting
Sentence: The city could also impliment shuttle buses that transport people from commercial areas to residential areas, thus reduce the cars on the road.
Error: impliment Suggestion: implement
Sentence: The prompt made a simple analogy and claimed that the city of Zurzi should impliment traffic tax just because the city Loft did so and was effective.
Error: impliment Suggestion: implement
Sentence: Thus more evidence, like the intrasturcute and economic of the city and the availability of alternative policies, should be gathered before the city decides to impose the traffic tax.
Error: intrasturcute Suggestion: intrastate
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 14 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 528 350
No. of Characters: 2464 1500
No. of Different Words: 194 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.794 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.667 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.474 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 169 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 114 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 71 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 43 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.303 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.591 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.414 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.579 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.154 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 516, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...to downtown and pay the tax regargless. Thus it the tax will be ineffective and just...
^^^^
Line 5, column 272, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...ds, and expanding public tranportation. if the city of Zurzi have equally or bette...
^^
Line 9, column 266, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...make the policy more or less effective. Thus more evidence, like the intrasturcute a...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, so, still, thus, while, as to, for example, in fact, more or less
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 23.0 12.9520958084 178% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 55.5748502994 119% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2520.0 2260.96107784 111% => OK
No of words: 528.0 441.139720559 120% => OK
Chars per words: 4.77272727273 5.12650576532 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.79356345386 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53646500648 2.78398813304 91% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 204.123752495 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.382575757576 0.468620217663 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 807.3 705.55239521 114% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 44.5261546723 57.8364921388 77% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.565217391 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.9565217391 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.86956521739 5.70786347227 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.075126869048 0.218282227539 34% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0357085811375 0.0743258471296 48% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0383324123942 0.0701772020484 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0583415017109 0.128457276422 45% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0181400722207 0.0628817314937 29% => 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: 12.5 14.3799401198 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.68 12.5979740519 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.57 8.32208582834 91% => OK
difficult_words: 95.0 98.500998004 96% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.