The following appeared as a letter to the editor from a Central Plaza store owner.
"Over the past two years, the number of shoppers in Central Plaza has been steadily decreasing while the popularity of skateboarding has increased dramatically. Many Central Plaza store owners believe that the decrease in their business is due to the number of skateboard users in the plaza. There has also been a dramatic increase in the amount of litter and vandalism throughout the plaza. Thus, we recommend that the city prohibit skateboarding in Central Plaza. If skateboarding is prohibited here, we predict that business in Central Plaza will return to its previously high levels."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The argument that Balmer will achieve annual reduction in moped accidents that was achieved last year on the neighboring island of Seaville, when Seaville's town council enforced limits on moped rentals is not entirely logically convincing since it ignore certain crucial assumption.
Firstly, the argument assumes that enforcing same limit enforced on moped rental will by neighbouring island will produce same result but does nothing to state the population of seaville.
Secondly, The argument states that moped is the popular means of transportation in Balmer but does not state if it is also the popular means of transportation in seaville.
Thirdly, argument does not state if Balmer and seaville has same road condition.
Thus, the argument that Balmer will achieve annual reduction in moped accidents that was achieved last year on the neighboring island of Seaville, when Seaville's town council enforced limits on moped rentals is not completely sound since it does little to prove the conclusion, since it does not address the assumption raised. Ultimately, the argument might have been strengthened if the author has shown that the population of seaville is approximately equal to the population of Balmer. That moped is also the popular means of transportation in seaville. That Balmer and seaville has same road condition.
Comments
e-rater score report
No. of Words: 209 350
Minimum 250 words wanted
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 8 15
No. of Words: 209 350
No. of Characters: 1108 1500
No. of Different Words: 86 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.802 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.301 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.775 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 85 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 65 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 48 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 27 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26.125 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.443 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.75 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.543 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.773 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.153 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 48, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...y, The argument states that moped is the popular means of transportation in Balme...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 19.6327345309 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 13.0 28.8173652695 45% => OK
Preposition: 25.0 55.5748502994 45% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1138.0 2260.96107784 50% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 209.0 441.139720559 47% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.44497607656 5.12650576532 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.80221413058 4.56307096286 83% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84414245613 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 87.0 204.123752495 43% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.416267942584 0.468620217663 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 348.3 705.55239521 49% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 19.7664670659 40% => 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: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 93.8362936182 57.8364921388 162% => OK
Chars per sentence: 142.25 119.503703932 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.125 23.324526521 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.875 5.70786347227 173% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0250457674264 0.218282227539 11% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.015272692248 0.0743258471296 21% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0143988702263 0.0701772020484 21% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0157681948141 0.128457276422 12% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0147353609713 0.0628817314937 23% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.3 14.3799401198 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 36.63 48.3550499002 76% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.197005988 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.57 12.5979740519 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.4 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 46.0 98.500998004 47% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 12.3882235529 149% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum 250 words wanted.
It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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