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.
According to the letter to the editor of the parkville Daily newspaper, the author recommends that parkville should discontinue organized athletic competition for children under nine, since the disadvantages outweigh any advantages. To buttress his argument, the author cites the following evidences: first, over 40000 young players suffered injuries; second, recent interview results show that youth-league soccer players in some major cities reported psychological pressures; finally, long practice sessions for sports take away time that could be used for academic activities. Although it might be...
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 25 15
No. of Words: 711 350
No. of Characters: 3901 1500
No. of Different Words: 333 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 5.164 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.487 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.831 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 301 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 227 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 169 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 106 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 28.44 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 16.745 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.72 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.29 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.493 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.121 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 794, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...al unaddressed or unstated assumptions. To begin with, the assumption that 40000...
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Line 3, column 205, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...orts and severity of individual injury. if a most players got serious injuries, th...
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Line 3, column 547, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...ormed about ages of those participants. if most injured are aged above nine, then ...
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Line 3, column 668, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
...ed above nine might be more meaningful. it is likely that most of those injuries a...
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Line 3, column 874, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ful than discontinuing such activities. Moreover, the author assumes that interv...
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Line 5, column 185, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
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Suggestion: Lots
... not be valid when we think thoroughly. lots of questions and details about the surv...
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Line 5, column 251, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
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Suggestion: How
...ils about the survey remain unexamined. how many players participated in such surve...
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Line 5, column 327, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: What
...h survey? Where did the survey conduct? what are the detailed survey procedures? Wit...
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Line 5, column 815, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
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Suggestion: Whats
...nces for guiding policies in parkville. whats more, the survey only concerned soccer ...
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Line 5, column 815, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: what's
...nces for guiding policies in parkville. whats more, the survey only concerned soccer ...
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Line 5, column 908, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
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Suggestion: It
...but how about players in other sports? it is also likely that the author fails to...
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Line 5, column 993, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
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Suggestion: They
...ntion about goodness talked by players. they might spend a lot of time discussing ab...
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Line 5, column 1206, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Those
...lts from the survey might lead to bias. those psychological pressures might not be a ...
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Line 5, column 1255, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'problem'?
Suggestion: problem
...chological pressures might not be a big problems, given joy and delight in playing sport...
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Line 8, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Last
...oy and delight in playing sports. last but not least, the authors assumption t...
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Line 8, column 25, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...g sports. last but not least, the authors assumption that disadvantages outweigh ...
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Line 8, column 302, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
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Suggestion: It
...s study time on academics dramatically. it is plausible that most of training or p...
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Line 8, column 398, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
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Suggestion: Students
...laces after school hours or on weekend. students are able to manage their time reasonabl...
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Line 8, column 585, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Also
...t necessarily reduce their study hours. also, study time is not directly related to ...
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Line 8, column 1215, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...nt sports also contribute positively to ones wellness and health conditions. Hence, ...
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Line 11, column 385, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...is of every advantage and disadvantage.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, briefly, but, finally, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, moreover, nonetheless, second, so, still, then, therefore, thus, well, while, for example, for instance, in addition, such as, to begin with, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 11.1786427146 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 28.8173652695 156% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 85.0 55.5748502994 153% => OK
Nominalization: 25.0 16.3942115768 152% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 4012.0 2260.96107784 177% => OK
No of words: 711.0 441.139720559 161% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.64275668073 5.12650576532 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.16377606524 4.56307096286 113% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94136376586 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 361.0 204.123752495 177% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.507735583685 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 1224.9 705.55239521 174% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 4.96107784431 222% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 10.0 2.70958083832 369% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 11.0 4.22255489022 261% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 38.0 19.7664670659 192% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 63.6244227834 57.8364921388 110% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.578947368 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.7105263158 23.324526521 80% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.92105263158 5.70786347227 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 21.0 5.25449101796 400% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 8.20758483034 183% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 12.0 4.67664670659 257% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.156789252613 0.218282227539 72% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0352817670767 0.0743258471296 47% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0482547489376 0.0701772020484 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0991167290037 0.128457276422 77% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0561680861975 0.0628817314937 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 14.3799401198 101% => 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: 15.43 12.5979740519 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.97 8.32208582834 108% => OK
difficult_words: 200.0 98.500998004 203% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 21.0 12.3882235529 170% => 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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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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