The following appeared in a letter to the editor of the Parkville Daily newspaper.
"Throughout the country last year, as more and more children below the age of nine participated in youth-league sports, over 40,000 of these young players suffered injuries. When interviewed for a recent study, youth-league soccer players in several major cities also reported psychological pressure exerted by coaches and parents to win games. Furthermore, education experts say that long practice sessions for these sports take away time that could be used for academic activities. Since the disadvantages outweigh any advantages, we in Parkville should discontinue organized athletic competition for children under nine."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
While it may seem that Parkville should distounce organizing youth league sports for children under nine as its disadvantages outweighs disadvantages. But there is lot of weaknesses in the argument.
It is stated that over 40,000 young players suffered injuries, but total number of young players who took part in youth-league sports is not mentioned. As total number of players is not mentioned,it can not be determined what percentage of childrens suffered injuries. Total enrolement in competition can be anywhere from thousands to millions of players.
Furthermore, 40000 players means injury to a very small proportion of total players. Seriousness of these injuries is never mentioned, maybe these injuries are innocous and are similar to small injuries childrens suffers regularly due to playing.
Moreover, Youth league soccer reported psychological pressures exerted by parents and coaches but it is not asked to the childrens, how they have handled these pressure situations. Pressure situations like these might help childrens to cope better with pressure in in tense situation like exams. These situations will help childrens to prepare for higher level of sports under 12 or under 14 championship.
Education experts say that long practise sessions for these sports take away time that can be used for academic activities.It is not mentioned when this competition takes place. Most of the athletic competition held in summer holidays where childrens has ample time for extra-curriculum activities. Maybe competition takes place at acamdic season time, but still childrens spend lot of time
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, may, moreover, so, still, while, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.6327345309 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 33.0 55.5748502994 59% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1363.0 2260.96107784 60% => OK
No of words: 246.0 441.139720559 56% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.5406504065 5.12650576532 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96035189615 4.56307096286 87% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99151917792 2.78398813304 107% => OK
Unique words: 152.0 204.123752495 74% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.617886178862 0.468620217663 132% => OK
syllable_count: 407.7 705.55239521 58% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 0.0 8.76447105788 0% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 38.4436881655 57.8364921388 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.846153846 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.9230769231 23.324526521 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.30769230769 5.70786347227 75% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.167531811095 0.218282227539 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0583276579824 0.0743258471296 78% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0614479579074 0.0701772020484 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0906231604594 0.128457276422 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0454805096984 0.0628817314937 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.3799401198 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.85 12.5979740519 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.89 8.32208582834 107% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 98.500998004 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 33.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 2.0 Out of 6
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