The following appeared in a letter to the editor of the Balmer Island Gazette."The population on Balmer Island doubles during the summer months. During the summer, then, the town council of Balmer Island should decrease the maximum

In the preceding argument, the author claims that Balmer population is doubled during the summer month and that increased the moped accidents, the conclusion of the argument is based on the following premises. Firstly, he states in order to mitigate the accidents rate they have to reduce the moped rentals from 50 per day to 30 per day. Secondly, he bolsters his assumption by stating the neighboring island has enforced the same limit and the reduction was 50 percent. Hence, in the first glance it may seem plausible. However, careful scrutiny sheds light on plethora of assumption that could undermine the value of the argument.

To begin with, he states the population doubles in the summer month that led to increase the moped accidents rate. But the fallacy of the assumption lies in using undefined language such as "double" what the author means in this words? What is the precise number for the double word. Perhaps the number increased but they do not aggregate in the same place, or perhaps because their number increased the roads became congestion with cars, bicycles and mopeds. Consequently, he fails to describe the true status of the island and he has to provide complete information to boost his case.

Secondly, the largest leap in the argument is what the author states as solution to mitigate the accidents rate that they have to decrease the mopeds rental rate from 50 per day to 30 per day,. But there is no evidence is presented to establish this assumption. Perhaps, the city has poor infrastructure that could be the direct cause of increasing the accidents rate or the city is too small cannot compensate large number of people, further, is it plausible that decrease the rental rate to 30 per day will guarantee decreasing the accidents rate or even we assume that the rate is decreased but is it significant enough?. Thus, the argument lack a depth of details and without complete information the argument is feckless.

Thirdly, the author readily assumes without warrant that the two island are the same and what works with Torseau island will mandatory work with Balmor island, but it could differ in many things such as the residents size or the road status further, we do not have any information about their future plan may the found decreasing the mopeds will help to force people to use public transportation system that will lead to increase the government revenue. In deed, the cause of difference could be the cause of success and because there is no information about the Torseau island it is implausible to reflect their success on Balmor island. Consequently, the argument is without basis and it would be stronger if the author provide more reliable information.

in conclusion, the argument fails to provide any key factor. Namely, the assumptions are equivocal. Hence, without complete information about the Balmor island the argument is unsubstantiated and opened to debate.

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Average: 5.5 (3 votes)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 235, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...s;double' what the author means in this words? What is the precise number for t...
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Line 5, column 192, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma
Suggestion: , .
...ental rate from 50 per day to 30 per day,. But there is no evidence is presented t...
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Line 7, column 578, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... no information about the Torseau island it is implausible to reflect their succe...
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Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: In
...r provide more reliable information. in conclusion, the argument fails to provi...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, consequently, first, firstly, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, third, thirdly, thus, as to, in conclusion, such as, to begin with

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 18.0 11.1786427146 161% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 33.0 28.8173652695 115% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 55.5748502994 104% => OK
Nominalization: 28.0 16.3942115768 171% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2456.0 2260.96107784 109% => OK
No of words: 488.0 441.139720559 111% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03278688525 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70007681154 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74160417322 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 204.123752495 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.459016393443 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 755.1 705.55239521 107% => 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: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 100.341155564 57.8364921388 173% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.8 119.503703932 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.4 23.324526521 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.4 5.70786347227 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => 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: 0.154651460626 0.218282227539 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0431344858573 0.0743258471296 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.054743117211 0.0701772020484 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0859178341465 0.128457276422 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0406870105078 0.0628817314937 65% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 14.3799401198 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.3550499002 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.19 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.19 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 98.500998004 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4 Out of 6
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argument 1 -- not OK

argument 2 -- OK

argument 3 -- OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 488 350
No. of Characters: 2383 1500
No. of Different Words: 212 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.7 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.883 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.601 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 178 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 123 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 87 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 54 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.684 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 17.988 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.789 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.311 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.534 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.122 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5