The following appeared in an editorial in a Prunty County newspaper.
"In an attempt to improve highway safety, Prunty County recently lowered its speed limit from 55 miles per hour to 45 on all major county roads. But the 55 mph limit should be restored, because this safety effort has failed. Most drivers are exceeding the new speed limit and the accident rate throughout Prunty County has decreased only slightly. If we want to improve the safety of our roads, we should instead undertake the same kind of road improvement project that Butler County completed five years ago: increasing lane widths and resurfacing rough roads. Today, major Butler County roads still have a 55 mph speed limit, yet there were 25 percent fewer reported accidents in Butler County this past year than there were five years ago."
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.
In an editorial from a prunty county newspaper states that the speed limit should be restored to 55mph and improve the safety of roads by widening roads and resurfacing them to lower the accident rate. even, butler county has performed the same method to decrease the accident rate five years ago was stated. However, before this specific evidence is enough to evaluate the argument, these questions must be answered.
Firstly, is the traffic of prunty county comparable with butler county? In other words, the traffic of both of them may not be comparable and the number of people using them may not be related to each other. if there is any evidence of the percentage of citizens using these roads that are comparable this evidence can be evaluated. if the above cannot be proved, the evidence weakens the argument.
Secondly, by widening roads and properly constructing and smoothening them is the accident rate decreased? it means the accidents may be at the junctions due to lack of proper signal maintenance or due to the number of diversified roads from a converged road. Only by increasing of length of roads there is no evidence that accidents are lowered. if the above holds true, the argument doesn't hold water. We need proper reasons for the accidents occurring in prunty county roads.
Thirdly, is there any possibility that restoring the speed limit to 55mph leads to decline of accident rates? In other words, even though the speed limit is increased the drivers may increase even this speed limit and this may be due to very smooth roads and lack of speed breakers. this results in the weakening of argument and evidence doesn't hold strong.
In conclusion, the argument as it stands now is considerably weakened due to lack of proper evidence and based on unwarranted assumptions. if the author is able to answer the above questions and provide proper evidence to prove them correct, then it will be possible to restore the speed and roads can be increased to proper length and can be repaired from damages.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 6 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 10 15
No. of Words: 346 350
No. of Characters: 1647 1500
No. of Different Words: 155 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.313 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.76 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.498 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 117 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 81 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 64 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 32 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 34.6 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 19.19 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.8 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.411 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.708 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.168 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 203, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Even
...facing them to lower the accident rate. even, butler county has performed the same m...
^^^^
Line 3, column 209, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
... them may not be related to each other. if there is any evidence of the percentage...
^^
Line 3, column 209, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “if” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... them may not be related to each other. if there is any evidence of the percentage...
^^
Line 3, column 334, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...parable this evidence can be evaluated. if the above cannot be proved, the evidenc...
^^
Line 5, column 108, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
...ng them is the accident rate decreased? it means the accidents may be at the junct...
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Line 5, column 348, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...no evidence that accidents are lowered. if the above holds true, the argument does...
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Line 5, column 386, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
.... if the above holds true, the argument doesnt hold water. We need proper reasons for ...
^^^^^^
Line 7, column 9, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ring in prunty county roads. Thirdly, is there any possibility that restoring ...
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Line 7, column 285, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: This
...mooth roads and lack of speed breakers. this results in the weakening of argument an...
^^^^
Line 7, column 340, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
... the weakening of argument and evidence doesnt hold strong. In conclusion, the argu...
^^^^^^
Line 9, column 140, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...e and based on unwarranted assumptions. if the author is able to answer the above ...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, in conclusion, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 13.6137724551 29% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 55.5748502994 88% => OK
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1692.0 2260.96107784 75% => OK
No of words: 344.0 441.139720559 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.91860465116 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30665032142 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56563384266 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 204.123752495 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.46511627907 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 527.4 705.55239521 75% => 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: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.0042330421 57.8364921388 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.5294117647 119.503703932 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.2352941176 23.324526521 87% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.58823529412 5.70786347227 115% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 5.25449101796 209% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.232597345113 0.218282227539 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0825248298408 0.0743258471296 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.108423364223 0.0701772020484 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.145672494996 0.128457276422 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0852460072968 0.0628817314937 136% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 14.3799401198 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.03 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 98.500998004 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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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