The following appeared in the editorial column of the Fern County Gazette newspaper:
"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.
Author of the editorial column of the Fern County Gazette newspaper suggested that the idea of converting the Northside of the Fern County Library system to the computer training center for public use is a good idea.
Computer skills are important as per the trends but there is no proof that these trends are the current trends. So, if the trends are older trends then converting the facility to the training center and wasting the huge library area for the same is not a good idea. Also, the computer is a highly fast-evolving technology. Therefore the training facilities must be updated very frequently. For that, the Council must have the budget. This not taken into consideration.
Moreover, in the editorial, it is stated that the rest of the library is adequate to fulfill the needs of the residents. Even though the system has a very large volume per resident, the need for the books or printed materials will surely increase. The new materials will also need some space in the library. This will not be possible if one side of the library is converted into the training facility and there is no way to expand the library, as the expansion of the library is not mentioned anywhere in the column.
Library space is also have limited space for the seating arrangement. This is also not taken into consideration. As the population of the county will surely increase day-by-day, the need for library books will surely increase and the number of people visiting the library will increase. This will cause the place to be teemed with readers but with fewer seats for the readers.
If we have got more evidence about the reason and some statistical data as explained in the subsequent paragraphs we could have said that the idea indeed a 'right' idea.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? 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: 303 350
No. of Characters: 1421 1500
No. of Different Words: 140 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.172 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.69 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.458 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 100 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 69 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 48 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 28 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.938 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.779 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.688 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.318 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.55 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.081 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 324, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...r is a highly fast-evolving technology. Therefore the training facilities must be updated...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, moreover, so, then, therefore
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 13.0 28.8173652695 45% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 55.5748502994 47% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 5.0 16.3942115768 30% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1469.0 2260.96107784 65% => OK
No of words: 303.0 441.139720559 69% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.84818481848 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55876696716 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 204.123752495 70% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.468646864686 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 468.9 705.55239521 66% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
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: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 58.4588530507 57.8364921388 101% => OK
Chars per sentence: 91.8125 119.503703932 77% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9375 23.324526521 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.75 5.70786347227 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.190196727827 0.218282227539 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0562209253976 0.0743258471296 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0886262117732 0.0701772020484 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.123234169097 0.128457276422 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.132354232824 0.0628817314937 210% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.9 14.3799401198 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.3550499002 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.85 12.5979740519 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.92 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 65.0 98.500998004 66% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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