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."
In the recent times, the number of shoppers in Central Plaza has decreased. The owner of the Central Plaza claims it is due to the increase in popularity of skateboards. Many Central Plaza store owners are dogmatic that both the events are strongly correlated. It is also claimed that skateboarders have cause the increase in litter and vandalated the plaza. Prohibition of skateboarding in Central Plaza is suggested as a result revival of the customers is predicted. However, the prediction is contignent upon several questions which must be answered to evaluate the validity of the argument profoundly.
It is mentioned that there's a wane in the business nonetheless, the type of business which seems to be affected isn't included. The business term contains a wide variety of sectors which provokes difficulty in defining the relation between the both. Hence, increasing the ambiguity of the argument.
Furthermore, the increase in the amount of litter and vandalism is solely blamed on the skate boarders. Feckless cleaning staff could also be responsible for this. The customers might have also vandilated the place. Therefore, this argument on skate boarders being entirely held responsible for litter and vandalism caused around is equivocal.
Finally, it is banally stated that there's an increase and decrease in the usage of skateboards and business respectively. No proof is attested for the same. Either a survey with the help of assistance of customers on their comments or a survey including comments of all the shop owners of the plaza will strengthen the argument. In short, statistics and figures haven't been included while taking a side in the argument.
In conclusion, despite the increase in skateboarders and decrease in the shoppers in the Central Plaza is observed over the period of two years, the prediction is based on the assumptions and open to several questions stated above that must be responded satisfactorily to prove the plausibility of such presentments,
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 320 350
No. of Characters: 1641 1500
No. of Different Words: 163 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.229 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.128 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.92 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 125 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 103 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 84 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 45 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.778 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.641 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.301 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.543 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.045 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 22, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: there's
...ent profoundly. It is mentioned that theres a wane in the business nonetheless, the...
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Line 3, column 113, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
... of business which seems to be affected isnt included. The business term contains a ...
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Line 7, column 36, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: there's
.... Finally, it is banally stated that theres an increase and decrease in the usage ...
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Line 7, column 67, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ted that theres an increase and decrease in the usage of skateboards and business...
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Line 7, column 364, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: haven't
...ument. In short, statistics and figures havent been included while taking a side in th...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, furthermore, hence, however, if, nonetheless, so, then, therefore, while, in conclusion, in short, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 28.8173652695 42% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1683.0 2260.96107784 74% => OK
No of words: 318.0 441.139720559 72% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.29245283019 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22286093782 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9991378981 2.78398813304 108% => OK
Unique words: 165.0 204.123752495 81% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.518867924528 0.468620217663 111% => OK
syllable_count: 531.0 705.55239521 75% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 60.4933421497 57.8364921388 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 93.5 119.503703932 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6666666667 23.324526521 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.94444444444 5.70786347227 122% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.300021530549 0.218282227539 137% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0956063561565 0.0743258471296 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.112436205085 0.0701772020484 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.14888586835 0.128457276422 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.145708533784 0.0628817314937 232% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.3799401198 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.11 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.15 8.32208582834 110% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 98.500998004 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 12.3882235529 57% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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