The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a local newspaper in Masontown:
“If we want to save money on municipal garbage disposal fees, we need to encourage our residents to recycle more. Late last year, our neighboring town, Hayesworth, passed a law requiring that all households recycle paper and glass, or pay a fine. Since that time, Hayesworth has seen its garbage disposal costs significantly decrease. If we implemented an advertising campaign encouraging our residents to recycle, Masontown would also save money on disposal of its waste.”
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered 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.
In the editorial from the local newspaper of Masontown, it is stated to recycle the waste and implement advertising campaign to encourage the town's resident to recycle. This in turn will also save money from the municipal garbage disposal fees. The author comes to this conclusion after seeing the success of the neighboring town Hayesworth in recycling paper and glass that yeilds to lower garbage disposal system cost. However, before this recommendation can be properly evaluated, two Questions must be answered.
First of all, Are the recycling rules of the town Masonworth and the town Hayeshworth roughly comparable? In other words can the rules of recycling from one town be implemented on another town? It is possible that the town of Masontown already has the paper and glass recylcing law in plan but due to people being affulent in the town doesn't mind sparing a few dollars for the waste disposal as a fine, due to them being very curious of their health and wanting to use pristine things every single time. It is also possible that the people in Hayesworth are obligated to follow the recycling rules while those in Masontown have been given a choice. If either of these scenarios has merit, then the conclusion drawn in the original arguement is significantly weakned.
Secondly, is the municipal garbage disposal system cost of town Hayesworth as high as that of Masontown. People in Hayesworth have no factories in the town so that leads to the shortage in the garbage disposal which in turn leads to less cost. In contrast to this there are a lot of production factories in Masontown that leads to creating a lot of garbage in turn increasing the cost. If this scenario has merit, then the arguement holds water.
In conclusion, the arguementm as it stands now, is considerably flawed due to its reliance on several unwarranted assumptions. If the author is able to answer the two questions above and offer more evidence (perhaps in form of a more detailed analysis and research), then it will be possible to fully evalute the viability of the porposed recommendation to add a law for recycling and advertising it in Masontown.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 3 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 10 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 364 350
No. of Characters: 1753 1500
No. of Different Words: 176 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.368 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.816 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.747 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 118 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 97 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 77 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 51 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.267 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 13.153 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.867 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.337 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.337 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.094 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 94, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...n, it is stated to recycle the waste and implement advertising campaign to encour...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...luated, two Questions must be answered. First of all, Are the recycling rules of...
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Line 2, column 336, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...ue to people being affulent in the town doesnt mind sparing a few dollars for the wast...
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Line 2, column 768, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...nal arguement is significantly weakned. Secondly, is the municipal garbage dispo...
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Line 3, column 447, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... merit, then the arguement holds water. In conclusion, the arguementm as it stan...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, second, secondly, so, then, while, in conclusion, in contrast, first of all, in contrast to, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 55.5748502994 104% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1784.0 2260.96107784 79% => OK
No of words: 363.0 441.139720559 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.91460055096 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3649236973 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79670637166 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 174.0 204.123752495 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.479338842975 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 558.9 705.55239521 79% => 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: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 68.4555330123 57.8364921388 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.933333333 119.503703932 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.2 23.324526521 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.2 5.70786347227 161% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 6.88822355289 15% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.234780090458 0.218282227539 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0823120819287 0.0743258471296 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0639319353435 0.0701772020484 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138106415964 0.128457276422 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0522700043897 0.0628817314937 83% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.8 14.3799401198 96% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.3550499002 115% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.49 12.5979740519 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 98.500998004 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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