"The Fern County Council made the right decision when it unanimously voted to convert the Northside branch of the county library system into a computer-skills training facility for public use. The converted facility will fill what is certain, based on national trends, to be a growing need among county residents for training in computer skills. And since our library system boasts more volumes per resident than any other system in the state, the remaining branches will adequately serve the future needs of Fern County residents."
Discuss what evidence you would need to properly evaluate the argument, and explain how that evidence might strengthen or weaken the argument.
The argument mentioned here, albeit sounds logical, has innumerable hidden flaws. By throwing more light on the issue, it's easy to see that the issue suffers many grave fallacies in its assumption as well as commits a false analogy. Before any final decisions could be taken, much work is left for the arguer to make his/ her argument more logical and cogent.
it is stated that the fern county council made the right decision when it unanimously voted to convert the Northside branch of the county library system into a computer-skills training facility for public use. without knowing the outcome of a decision, it is not right to provide judgement on a fact, since the dearth of enough details allows us to be skeptical about the given argument. Only after adopting a scheme and making it to run for several days or months could suffice a council with a better knowledge of the outcome regarding its correctness.
Further, based on the given assumption that training in computer skills is a growing need among county residents, many questions crop up which needs to be answered. Was any survey or questionnaire taken which emphasized the need of the people to have computer knowledge? are the individuals in that part of the state really lack the computer skills? if so, does the city comprise of myriad number of youngsters rather than senior citizens and kids who might not require such training? also, adequate information is not provided regarding the training centers in that part of the state which could make the offer less competent.
In addition to the above statements, we are detailed that, since their library system boasts more volumes per resident than any other system in the state, the remaining branches will adequately serve the future needs of fern county residents. However, there is a lack of adequate information regarding the usage of library by the residents. For if, they were comfortable with the rich source of information from the library, they might not welcome the idea of converting a part of the library system into computer skills training facility. also, the large volumes of books need not get accommodated as part of it will be used for the training program.
In a nutshell, the above facts could be reiterated that the idea, though looks plausible, need not be a beneficial one if the people were accustomed to the usage of library on a huge scale. Nevertheless, if many centers are already present to train the men and women on computer-based skills, then the new idea could prove futile. Hence, without proper access to minor details and people’s expectation, there is a possibility of the decision to prove as non – beneficiary.
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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: 13 15
No. of Words: 450 350
No. of Characters: 2174 1500
No. of Different Words: 229 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.606 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.831 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.603 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 155 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 112 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 76 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 34.615 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 18.899 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.692 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.336 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.632 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.106 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 4, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
The argument mentioned here, albeit sounds l...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
... argument more logical and cogent. it is stated that the fern county council ...
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Line 5, column 211, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Without
...kills training facility for public use. without knowing the outcome of a decision, it i...
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Line 9, column 272, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Are
... the people to have computer knowledge? are the individuals in that part of the sta...
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Line 9, column 351, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
... state really lack the computer skills? if so, does the city comprise of myriad nu...
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Line 9, column 372, Rule ID: COMPRISE_OF[1]
Message: Did you mean 'comprise' or 'consist of'?
Suggestion: comprise; consist of
...e computer skills? if so, does the city comprise of myriad number of youngsters rather than...
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Line 9, column 486, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Also
...ds who might not require such training? also, adequate information is not provided r...
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Line 13, column 541, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Also
...into computer skills training facility. also, the large volumes of books need not ge...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, however, if, look, nevertheless, really, regarding, so, then, well, in addition, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 55.5748502994 115% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2248.0 2260.96107784 99% => OK
No of words: 451.0 441.139720559 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.9844789357 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60833598836 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70864149666 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 241.0 204.123752495 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.534368070953 0.468620217663 114% => OK
syllable_count: 708.3 705.55239521 100% => 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: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.4715743651 57.8364921388 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.888888889 119.503703932 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0555555556 23.324526521 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.77777777778 5.70786347227 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 5.25449101796 152% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.312094570644 0.218282227539 143% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0921940802207 0.0743258471296 124% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.172415680653 0.0701772020484 246% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.165003497174 0.128457276422 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.146314398246 0.0628817314937 233% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.9 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.48 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 98.500998004 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => 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: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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