The author of the letter hopes to decrease the number of accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians by limiting the number of moped rentals. Although the author’s suggestions are based on seemingly reasonable supports, with closer examination, however, we can find that the authors reasoning is rife with holes and flaws. The author failed to consider several other possibilities when forming his or her assumption, and some additional questions must be addressed before we can prove the author’s suggestion workable.
First, by stating that limiting the number of rentals of mopeds during the summer season can reduce the number of accidents, the author assumes the majority of accidents is caused by people renting mopeds in the summer season. This assumption, however, was not discussed in the letter and remains questionable whether it is true or not. It is possible that the majority of accidents are caused by the people who have their own moped, is which case limiting number of rental may do little effect on decreasing accident numbers. It is also possible in most cases of the accident the responsibility belongs to the pedestrian, if this proves to be the case, the town council should put effort on educating pedestrians to behave safely rather than restricting moped usages. Another plausible case is that more accidents happen in winter rather than summer season, which would make restricting rental on only summer seaon ridiculous. The author did not mention any information about these possibilities, and to justify his or her suggestion, the author should address the questions with sufficient supportive data.
Second, the author assumes that since similar limits on moped rentals had efficiently lowered the moped accidents on the neighboring island of Seaville, limiting moped rentals should also work on Balmer Island. This statement fails to consider the difference between island of Seaville and Balmer Island, though. It is not clear whether these two island’s moped accidents can be attributed to the same cause; the ratio of rentals between these two islands are not provided, whether island of Seaville had implemented other strategies to reduce accidents concommitant with limiting rentals are not considered, and the author merely stated that island of Seaville enforced similar limits but said nothing about how similar or dissimilar their limits are between the limits the author suggests. By ignoring these questions, the author provided insufficient evidence to prove his or her suggestion workable.
To sum up, although taking the suggestion of the author and limiting the number of moped rentals is possible to help to reduce the number of accidents, the actual effects remain questionable since the author did not take into account every possible factors that may cause his or her suggestion invalid. Until the above questions are provided with reasonable explanations, the usefulness of the author’s suggestion will remain doubtful. In order to make the suggestion more persuasive, the author should provide evidence to support that the several assumptions made in the argument are in fact, true.
Essay evaluation report
Sentence: Another plausible case is that more accidents happen in winter rather than summer season, which would make restricting rental on only summer seaon ridiculous.
Error: seaon Suggestion: season
Sentence: It is not clear whether these two island's moped accidents can be attributed to the same cause; the ratio of rentals between these two islands are not provided, whether island of Seaville had implemented other strategies to reduce accidents concommitant with limiting rentals are not considered, and the author merely stated that island of Seaville enforced similar limits but said nothing about how similar or dissimilar their limits are between the limits the author suggests.
Error: concommitant Suggestion: concomitant
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argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
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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: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 493 350
No. of Characters: 2596 1500
No. of Different Words: 215 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.712 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.266 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.673 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 226 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 147 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 104 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 64 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 30.812 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.694 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.562 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.386 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.561 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.19 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 73, Rule ID: THE_FALL_SEASON[1]
Message: Use simply 'summer'.
Suggestion: summer
... the number of rentals of mopeds during the summer season can reduce the number of accidents, the...
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Line 3, column 210, Rule ID: THE_FALL_SEASON[1]
Message: Use simply 'summer'.
Suggestion: summer
...s is caused by people renting mopeds in the summer season. This assumption, however, was not disc...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, second, so, in fact, in most cases, it is true, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 71.0 55.5748502994 128% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2674.0 2260.96107784 118% => OK
No of words: 493.0 441.139720559 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.42393509128 5.12650576532 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71206996034 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.8260754183 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 204.123752495 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.452332657201 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 833.4 705.55239521 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
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: 30.0 22.8473053892 131% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 90.1862439275 57.8364921388 156% => OK
Chars per sentence: 167.125 119.503703932 140% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.8125 23.324526521 132% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.8125 5.70786347227 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.190287949386 0.218282227539 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0735351223384 0.0743258471296 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0697156260539 0.0701772020484 99% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117081069403 0.128457276422 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0536093570354 0.0628817314937 85% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.5 14.3799401198 136% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 32.57 48.3550499002 67% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 16.2 12.197005988 133% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.75 12.5979740519 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.9 8.32208582834 107% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 98.500998004 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 11.1389221557 126% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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.