The following appeared in a letter to the editor of the Balmer Island Gazette.
"On Balmer Island, where mopeds serve as a popular form of transportation, the population increases to 100,000 during the summer months. To reduce the number of accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians, the town council of Balmer Island should limit the number of mopeds rented by the island's moped rental companies from 50 per day to 25 per day during the summer season. By limiting the number of rentals, the town council will attain the 50 percent annual reduction in moped accidents that was achieved last year on the neighboring island of Seaville, when Seaville's town council enforced similar limits on moped rentals."
In this argument, the author concludes that it is an effictive way for the Balmer Island to decrease the moped accidents through restraining the number of renting mopeds, holding several reasons that are seemingly justificated. However, these statement are problematic in several aspects, rendering the argument unconvincing as it stands.
Firstly, in spite of the popularity of mopeds serving as a convenient transportation, there is no credence in the letter that the rental mopeds is a major composite of the total moped number. Though the arguer mentioned that the population slumped to 1...
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 400 350
No. of Characters: 1993 1500
No. of Different Words: 201 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.472 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.982 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.828 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 167 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 109 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 78 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 57 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 28.571 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.633 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.857 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.337 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.634 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.083 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 239, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this statement' or 'these statements'?
Suggestion: this statement; these statements
...at are seemingly justificated. However, these statement are problematic in several aspects, ren...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 341, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Hence,
...data regarding to each year are missed. Hence we cannot simply get the conclusion tha...
^^^^^
Line 9, column 539, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...rop in the rental number from 50% to 25% , nor the 50% reduction of moped accident...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
accordingly, besides, but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, moreover, regarding, second, secondly, so, well, in conclusion, such as, in spite of, with regard to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 55.5748502994 104% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 16.3942115768 134% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2062.0 2260.96107784 91% => OK
No of words: 400.0 441.139720559 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.155 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.472135955 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.93753942586 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 207.0 204.123752495 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.5175 0.468620217663 110% => OK
syllable_count: 640.8 705.55239521 91% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 28.0 22.8473053892 123% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 46.4653151308 57.8364921388 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 147.285714286 119.503703932 123% => OK
Words per sentence: 28.5714285714 23.324526521 122% => OK
Discourse Markers: 11.6428571429 5.70786347227 204% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => 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: 0.275114546296 0.218282227539 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.08141089005 0.0743258471296 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0609280067421 0.0701772020484 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.128646057406 0.128457276422 100% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0765305557821 0.0628817314937 122% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.2 14.3799401198 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.06 48.3550499002 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.197005988 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.64 8.32208582834 116% => OK
difficult_words: 117.0 98.500998004 119% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.2 11.1389221557 119% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.5 Out of 6
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