The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a local newspaper.
"Commuters complain that increased rush-hour traffic on Blue Highway between the suburbs and the city center has doubled their commuting time. The favored proposal of the motorists' lobby is to widen the highway, adding an additional lane of traffic. But last year's addition of a lane to the nearby Green Highway was followed by a worsening of traffic jams on it. A better alternative is to add a bicycle lane to Blue Highway. Many area residents are keen bicyclists. A bicycle lane would encourage them to use bicycles to commute, and so would reduce rush-hour traffic rather than fostering an increase."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
Traffic is one of the major problems in cities especially during office hours. The commuters wrote the letter to editor of local newspaper about increase in traffic during rush-hours. The commuters suggested alternative options of problem and self-evaluate it also. I am totally agreeing with the suggestion to add a bicycle lane to Blue Highway to manage the traffic during rush-hours. To deal with the problem we should find creative and practical ideas and to add a bicycle lane to Blue Highway is applicable idea and the reasoning behind the idea makes it strengthen.
Firstly, the bicycle is Eco-friendly means of transportation and people should use it for certain distances. As the commuters shared information that many area residents are keen bicyclists so they will be encouraged with the bicycle lane in Blue Highway. The pollution is also one of the major problems of so many countries and this proposal helps to control pollution as well. The bicyclist will also encourage others to use bicycle to commute for short distance and it helps to make ourselves healthy.
Secondly, making new lane for motorists lobby is not good option as it is mentioned in the letter that the Green Highway is example for it. One more example support to do not make extra lane for motorist is they ride with high-speed and the danger for accident may be increases. The motorist can ride with car and heavy vehicles but the bicyclist cannot because of difference in speed. As the development is growing rapidly as well as the people starts to use motorcycle or cars for short distances also which is not good for the environment, that’s why to promote bicyclist is a good idea.
Thirdly, the idea to start different lane for bicycle is not an arbitrary thought but it is well thought plan. The accidents will be decrease and the severity of the accidents will be reduced due to separation of bicyclist and other vehicles. The bicyclist trapped with the heavy vehicles because of high speed and during traffic time people drive rashly. The Green Highway is good example and other and learn from it that due to making different lane for motorist the traffic jam became worst.
Finally, the aforementioned reasoning strengthens the argument made by commuters in the letter to the editor of a local newspaper.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 388 350
No. of Characters: 1883 1500
No. of Different Words: 175 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.438 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.853 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.655 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 139 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 110 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 70 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 52 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.556 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.22 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.611 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.315 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.553 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.092 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 261, Rule ID: ALSO_SENT_END[1]
Message: 'Also' is not used at the end of the sentence. Use 'as well' instead.
Suggestion: as well
...options of problem and self-evaluate it also. I am totally agreeing with the suggest...
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Line 1, column 269, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...of problem and self-evaluate it also. I am totally agreeing with the suggestion to add a bicycle la...
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Line 7, column 357, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...uring traffic time people drive rashly. The Green Highway is good example and other...
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, well, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 17.0 11.1786427146 152% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 13.6137724551 29% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 17.0 28.8173652695 59% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 55.5748502994 88% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1927.0 2260.96107784 85% => OK
No of words: 388.0 441.139720559 88% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.96649484536 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.43821085614 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.72674444033 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 204.123752495 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.461340206186 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 606.6 705.55239521 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.8973309807 57.8364921388 53% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 107.055555556 119.503703932 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.5555555556 23.324526521 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.83333333333 5.70786347227 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.17269377643 0.218282227539 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0675803589862 0.0743258471296 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0737049188718 0.0701772020484 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117804299802 0.128457276422 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0721728286845 0.0628817314937 115% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.3799401198 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.55 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.06 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 98.500998004 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => 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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