"In each city in the region of Treehaven, the majority of the money spent on government-run public school education comes from taxes that each city government collects. The region’s cities differ, however, in the value they place on public education. For example, Parson City typically budgets twice as much money per year as Blue City does for its public schools- even though both cities have about the same number of residents. It seems clear, therefore, that Parson City residents care more about public school education than do Blue City residents."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation 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 recommendation
The argument that Parson City residents care more about public school education than do Blue City residents is specious because it fails to provide substantial information that proves it.
Initially, it says that the money for government-run public school education comes from the taxes paid by the inhabitants of each city and that Parson City pays double of what Blue City pays but it does not provide any numbers for the earnings of people in both the cities. There reason for the former paying twice as much tax could be that the people in the latter city earn less than the people in Parson City do. Had the author mentioned these figures, the fallacy would have eradicated itself.
In addition, the argument posits that the residents in both the cities are about the same. This expression is vague and does not give any proof about the population of both the cities. More so, there could be a possibility that the school going populace in Blue City is actually less than in Parson City. That would account for the discrepancy in taxes paid by both the towns. But, since no specific demographics are provided on the total occupancy of the cities and their school going pupils, this claim renders itself false.
On the other hand, the lack of interest, if there is any, of the people of Blue City in public education may be due to the fact that the government might be incapable of managing the schools properly and the quality of education is substandard, which might have led them to consider private school education for their children. Also, the government in Parson City may be managing the schools extremely well. There has been no mention of how the government runs these public schools, if the argument has incorporated these factors, the claim would have been stronger.
On the basis of the aforementioned flaws, for which the writer has either provided insufficient or erroneous information, undermines the argument’s conclusion and it fails to make a cogent case.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
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argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- OK, but need to argue: 'therefore, that Parson City residents care more about public school education than do Blue City residents'
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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: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 337 350
No. of Characters: 1610 1500
No. of Different Words: 163 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.285 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.777 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.508 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 104 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 68 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 53 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 35 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.923 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.35 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.538 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.372 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.632 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.123 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, if, may, so, well, in addition, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 55.5748502994 65% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1661.0 2260.96107784 73% => OK
No of words: 337.0 441.139720559 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.92878338279 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28457229495 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59694272353 2.78398813304 93% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 204.123752495 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.483679525223 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 509.4 705.55239521 72% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 75.5516986679 57.8364921388 131% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.769230769 119.503703932 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.9230769231 23.324526521 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.38461538462 5.70786347227 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.292406856376 0.218282227539 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101204300912 0.0743258471296 136% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0852880495213 0.0701772020484 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.155863149387 0.128457276422 121% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0799382729463 0.0628817314937 127% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.8 14.3799401198 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.3550499002 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 98.500998004 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 12.3882235529 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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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.