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.
The following article that has appeared in the local newspaper has a lot of fallacies and assumptions being made upfront. These assumptions have to be warranted and justified, otherwise they severely undermine the plausibility and stability of the argument. These illogical ideas need to be proven incorrect due to which individuals residing in Masontown have a much limpid understanding of the matter at hand, which is the issue regarding costs related to garbage disposal and recycling.
The major assumption made is that the law passed in Hayesworth town if similarly copied and implemented in Masontown will yield the same results. We need more information about the two towns which being compared, to help substantiate the above claim. It is possible that citizens of Hayesworth town are much more vigilant about the issues regarding garbage disposal and recycling as opposed to citizens of Masotown. There excessive action and indulgence in these matters may have forced the municipal authority of Hayesworth town to pass some laws regarding recycling of paper and glass. Also a branch of the above assumption can be made that the what are points that are being stated in the laws and how are they unique to Hayesworh town.
Another assumption that we can clearly seen being made is that the time frame in which the effects of the laws that have been passed in Hayesworth town are visible. It must have taken some time for the new laws to be put in place and also people getting accustomed to them. The entire process could take some months or a year to be completely effective. Therefore if and when such similar thoughts arise in the minds of the citizens or local authorities of Masontown, they need to keep the time frame and acceptability of the laws amongs't the public in mind.
Finally, it may be election year for the municipal corporation in the town of Hayesworth. Thus the passing of such laws may seem as an attempt to gain more votes and expand the voter base. It is most likely an attempt to increase the respective ruling party's dominance and control over the city, and may seem much less of an attempt toward genuine enviromental concerns.
Thus by observing and explaining the errors in the assumptions made above we can clearly state that these points under consideration need to be thoroughlly examined. Even if one of the above points is proven illogical and false, it drastically affects the structure, validity and stability of the argument. The assumption made that, since the town of Hayesworth reduces the cost of garbage disposal , will also work correctly for Masontown is a bit far fetched. Advertising about the importnace of garbage disposal and recycling of paper and glass may not prove effective in Masontown.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 462 350
No. of Characters: 2255 1500
No. of Different Words: 214 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.636 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.881 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.697 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 147 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 121 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 92 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 70 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.316 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.416 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.737 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.317 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.546 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.122 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 298, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... These illogical ideas need to be proven incorrect due to which individuals resid...
^^
Line 3, column 589, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...regarding recycling of paper and glass. Also a branch of the above assumption can be...
^^^^
Line 5, column 355, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
...s or a year to be completely effective. Therefore if and when such similar thoughts arise...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 91, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
... corporation in the town of Hayesworth. Thus the passing of such laws may seem as an...
^^^^
Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...ward genuine enviromental concerns. Thus by observing and explaining the errors ...
^^^^
Line 9, column 399, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...rth reduces the cost of garbage disposal , will also work correctly for Masontown ...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, if, may, regarding, similarly, so, therefore, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 11.1786427146 197% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 55.5748502994 119% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2299.0 2260.96107784 102% => OK
No of words: 461.0 441.139720559 105% => OK
Chars per words: 4.98698481562 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63367139033 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74982174862 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 217.0 204.123752495 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.470715835141 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 731.7 705.55239521 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => 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: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.3767588948 57.8364921388 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.0 119.503703932 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.2631578947 23.324526521 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.42105263158 5.70786347227 60% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.236144975512 0.218282227539 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0797128936031 0.0743258471296 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0493039809529 0.0701772020484 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.133504256405 0.128457276422 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0487743023994 0.0628817314937 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.2 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.96 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.42 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 98.500998004 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => 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: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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