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 of the argument attempts to bridge the ill behavior of the skateboarders and the dramatic decreasing in shopping in the Central Plaza. Although it may seem to be tenable at first glance, more scrutiny shed lights to its weakness, and it turns out to be untenable since the author has disregarded some aspects and consequently his claim rests on some premises all of which can be challenged in one way or another.
The first problem that is arousing to my mind is that maybe decreasing shopping rate in this center has another root. For instance, economic recession, sanctions that applied to shopper’s country or even it may roots from the decreasing in the quality of goods. Who knows? So, however, It could think that the skateboarders make an ill effect in the shopping rate, but it is necessary to consider all other related roots.
The second problem regarding the author’s argument is that not just a skateboarder, but also everyone could make a litter and cause vandalism. In other words, it is irrational to accuse just the skateboarders to these damages although, everyone could make these corruptions. So it must be answered that if only the skateboarder's behavior given rise to these damages or there is another rationale.
The third reason to challenge with the author’s argument is that I believe that this actions not only does not ameliorate the current condition but also do exacerbate it. This thought comes from the fact that, maybe some shoppers accustomed to shopping through skateboarding. It may restrict theme, and they tend to go to the shops or centers that let them go there with their skateboards.
Having scrutinized all the premises, a plausible conclusion that can be drawn is that the Central Plaza higher-ups should not ban and put the restriction to skateboarders as there are some questions, having been ignored by the author while the answer of could add to the logic of each premise.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- not 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: 13 15
No. of Words: 326 350
No. of Characters: 1575 1500
No. of Different Words: 178 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.249 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.831 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.74 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 103 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 87 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 63 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 35 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.077 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.313 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.769 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.327 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.611 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.061 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 321, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'skateboarders'' or 'skateboarder's'?
Suggestion: skateboarders'; skateboarder's
...So it must be answered that if only the skateboarders behavior given rise to these damages or...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 86, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...'s argument is that I believe that this actions not only does not ameliorate th...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, consequently, first, however, if, may, regarding, second, so, third, while, for instance, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 28.8173652695 118% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1632.0 2260.96107784 72% => OK
No of words: 326.0 441.139720559 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.00613496933 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24917287072 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90303351654 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 180.0 204.123752495 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.552147239264 0.468620217663 118% => OK
syllable_count: 495.0 705.55239521 70% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 19.7664670659 61% => 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: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.3858093024 57.8364921388 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.0 119.503703932 114% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.1666666667 23.324526521 116% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.58333333333 5.70786347227 168% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 0.0 8.20758483034 0% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => 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: 0.134404625664 0.218282227539 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0478640607571 0.0743258471296 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0602045716392 0.0701772020484 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.07364868545 0.128457276422 57% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0384786131941 0.0628817314937 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.8 14.3799401198 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 52.53 48.3550499002 109% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.6 12.197005988 103% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.07 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.37 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 98.500998004 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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