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 Ce

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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 author suggests that if the local government prohibits skateboarding in Central Plaza, the business in this area will return to its high level. Although it is likely that skateboarding have cause some trouble for business owners, it is questionable that if the suggestions will proceede as predicted because the author doesn't provide enough support for his argument, as discussed below.

First of all, it is important to investigate if skateboarding is the primrary reason why the bussiness declined at Central Plaza because it undermines the assuption of the proposed argument, instead of base the argument on subjective opinion. It is possible that the skateboarding has become popular at Central Plaza because there is a skateboarding park opened nearby. What is more, if the shopping mall is very popular and has a lots of visitor, skateboard users may consider to find a place less popular, such like within the park or the back street. It is more than likly that the number of shopper have been decreasing in Central Plaza and skateboarding has become popular simply because streets and parks here are empty. If the questions turns out to be fause, it may undermines the assumption the author have that the declined bussiness is due to the skateboard users in the plaza.

Second, it is questionable that if it is possible for the local government and law enforcement to implement the prohibition of skateboarding in Central Plaza, if such reugulation is legal at all. It is possible that the laws supports anyone who wish to preform any activity at will and prohibit anyone to evict them without a good reason. Even if the regulation is implemented, it is impossible to ask police officers to stationed here 24-7 simply to make sure no one will skaeboard at Central Plaza. What is more, it might be impossible to ask the local bussiness owner who have already suffer from the lost of shoppers to pay for the extra expence to keep any skateboard user outside. If the regulation is turns out to be impossible, it would make very difficult for the local bussiness oweners to implement the suggestion the author proposed.

Last but not least. Even if all the skateboard users will no longer be able to skateboard at Central Plaza, there is no evidence that the business will return to normal as the author argued. It is possible that people become less willing to go shopping because the troubled economic environment. Or if the Central Plaza have receieved a bad reputation due to pool custormer experience. There are so many reason why customers decided no to visit a shopping mall, and it is important for the bussiness owner to figure out the true reason why the Central Plaza has become less popular so that they can fix the real problem and allow Cenral Plaza to return to its previously high levels.

In general, the author need to provides more evidence to show if the skateboarding has to do with the declination at all, if it is possible to implement the regulation to prohibit skaeboarding, and most importantly, what is the real reason behind the decrease number of shoppers in the Plaza. Only if the author provides enough evidence for these question can he provide support to his suggestion or propose a better solution for the situation of Central Plaza.

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Average: 6.6 (1 vote)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 324, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...roceede as predicted because the author doesnt provide enough support for his argument...
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Line 5, column 430, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a lot' or simply 'lots'?
Suggestion: a lot; lots
...e shopping mall is very popular and has a lots of visitor, skateboard users may consid...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 432, Rule ID: LOTS_OF_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun visitor seems to be countable; consider using: 'lots of visitors'.
Suggestion: lots of visitors
...shopping mall is very popular and has a lots of visitor, skateboard users may consider to find ...
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Line 5, column 470, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[3]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'consider finding'.
Suggestion: consider finding
...a lots of visitor, skateboard users may consider to find a place less popular, such like within ...
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Line 9, column 589, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'suffered'.
Suggestion: suffered
... local bussiness owner who have already suffer from the lost of shoppers to pay for th...
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Line 13, column 434, Rule ID: NOW[2]
Message: Did you mean 'now' (=at this moment) instead of 'no' (negation)?
Suggestion: now
...re so many reason why customers decided no to visit a shopping mall, and it is imp...
^^

Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, may, second, so, as to, in general, first of all, what is more

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 30.0 19.6327345309 153% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 11.1786427146 107% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 36.0 28.8173652695 125% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 65.0 55.5748502994 117% => OK
Nominalization: 29.0 16.3942115768 177% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2739.0 2260.96107784 121% => OK
No of words: 557.0 441.139720559 126% => OK
Chars per words: 4.91741472172 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.85807034144 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79946226964 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 232.0 204.123752495 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.416517055655 0.468620217663 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 875.7 705.55239521 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 4.96107784431 222% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 9.0 2.70958083832 332% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 29.0 22.8473053892 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 64.7477526108 57.8364921388 112% => OK
Chars per sentence: 144.157894737 119.503703932 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.3157894737 23.324526521 126% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.10526315789 5.70786347227 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => 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: 0.23719903027 0.218282227539 109% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0895242549182 0.0743258471296 120% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0687717553997 0.0701772020484 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.146104394906 0.128457276422 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0542944795875 0.0628817314937 86% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 14.3799401198 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.04 48.3550499002 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.197005988 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.85 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 98.500998004 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 12.3882235529 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.1389221557 122% => OK
text_standard: 19.0 11.9071856287 160% => 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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