The following appeared in a letter to the editor of the Balmer Island Gazette.
"The population on Balmer Island increases to 100,000 during the summer months. To reduce the number of accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians, the town council of Balmer Island plans to limit the number of mopeds rented by each of the island's six moped rental companies from 50 per day to 30 per day during the summer season. Last year, the neighboring island of Torseau enforced similar limits on moped rentals and saw a 50 percent reduction in moped accidents. We predict that putting these limits into effect on Balmer Island will result in the same reduction in moped accidents."
Write a response in which you discuss one or more alternative explanations that could rival the proposed explanation and explain how your explanation(s) can plausibly account for the facts presented in the argument.
The author of the letter contends that due to increase in the population of Balmer island in summer, there is a need to reduce the number of accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians. The solution that the council has come up with is based on the policy that was successful in the neighboring island. Based on its success in the other part, the council asserts that implementation of similar policy in their island will work effectively and they can achieve their target. However, this contention is based on premises which are weak and can be falsified. The assumptions taken here by the author are neglecting the various aspects and perspective and without dwelling deeper into these sides, it will be foolish to make this claim.
Firstly, the author has mentioned that there is an increase in population in the summer, but the number of accidents taken into account is not given with sufficient information .For instance if the data enumerating the count of accidents is for the entire year then limiting any number of renting mopends cannot guarantee the success in reducing the moped and pedestrians accidents.
Moreover, there is a plausible probability that during summers, most of the population would not prefer travelling on a two wheeler or is not likely to choose walking as a mode to commute. The scorching heat will compel the crowd to shift towards an air conditioned car or a jeep. Limiting mopeds during summer season will be futile with unwanted problems created for the locals.
Secondly, the council should take into consideration the ratio of population to area, before drawing an analogy to a neighboring town. The 50 percent rate of reduction can be due to its geographic and demographic factors and hence can likely to vary. If the population density os Torseau is high and other factors like the the roads and footpaths are not well constructed, then decreasing the moped limit per person could have been of great help. But, if there is good road infrastructure even in the conjusted areas of core city, people are following traffic rules, footpaths are highly maintained, also the population density is low. Then the city council's efforts in implementing the plan suggested will be in vain and the issue will still persist.
Moreover, trying to understand the nature of the problem and the factors causing it would be of great help to come to a conclusion that adopting a solution implemented by the neighboring town can help to mitigate the issue one year back. The proper understanding of the reasons behind the issue is lacking which leave the argument as indefensible to the attacks. Also the argument lacks various other data including the parameters on which Torseau has based its solution. Considering all these mentioned points the argument is not co
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 466 350
No. of Characters: 2283 1500
No. of Different Words: 236 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.646 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.899 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.715 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 165 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 122 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 80 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 58 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.889 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.925 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.556 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.287 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.496 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.064 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 117, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... the summer, but the number of accidents taken into account is not given with suf...
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Line 3, column 178, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...is not given with sufficient information .For instance if the data enumerating the...
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Line 3, column 180, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: For
... not given with sufficient information .For instance if the data enumerating the co...
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Line 4, column 160, Rule ID: AFFORD_VBG[1]
Message: This verb is used with infinitive: 'to walk'.
Suggestion: to walk
... two wheeler or is not likely to choose walking as a mode to commute. The scorching hea...
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Line 6, column 320, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
... Torseau is high and other factors like the the roads and footpaths are not well constr...
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Line 6, column 320, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
... Torseau is high and other factors like the the roads and footpaths are not well constr...
^^^^^^^
Line 8, column 364, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...rgument as indefensible to the attacks. Also the argument lacks various other data i...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, still, then, well, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 62.0 55.5748502994 112% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2332.0 2260.96107784 103% => OK
No of words: 466.0 441.139720559 106% => OK
Chars per words: 5.00429184549 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.64618479453 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75835811365 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 204.123752495 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.510729613734 0.468620217663 109% => OK
syllable_count: 723.6 705.55239521 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 72.1881329805 57.8364921388 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.555555556 119.503703932 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.8888888889 23.324526521 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.11111111111 5.70786347227 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => 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: 0.202249356035 0.218282227539 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0606896116172 0.0743258471296 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.107887462841 0.0701772020484 154% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103896636938 0.128457276422 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0726281600304 0.0628817314937 115% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.3799401198 105% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.91 8.32208582834 107% => OK
difficult_words: 119.0 98.500998004 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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