The following appeared in a letter to the school board in the town of Centerville.
"All students should be required to take the driver's education course at Centerville High School. In the past two years, several accidents in and around Centerville have involved teenage drivers. Since a number of parents in Centerville have complained that they are too busy to teach their teenagers to drive, some other instruction is necessary to ensure that these teenagers are safe drivers. Although there are two driving schools in Centerville, parents on a tight budget cannot afford to pay for driving instruction. Therefore an effective and mandatory program sponsored by the high school is the only solution to this serious problem."
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 arguer, the high school should provide the driver's education course for teenage student in order to reduce the traffic accidents in the town of Centerville. Although this argument seems to be logical at first glance, the arguer fails to prove the necessecity of having such driver course for young generation in the high school in the context of many unwarranted assumptions.
Firstly, it is unfairly assumed that the high school should undertake the financial cost of opening such driver course. I believe that the parents of those young drivers just want to save money and are unwilling to pay for driver course instead of the lack of enough money, since the cost of each vehicle is not cheap. From my perspective, the teenage drivers allowed to use their own or parents' cars should obtain drivers' license at first. By doing so, they would obtain entire driver's training, such as learning traffic law.
Furthermore, it is confusing that the arguer declare that the teachers in the high school are capable of teaching driver's education course. Without the convincing data and explanation, it is unreceivable that the teachers can teach those students efficiently. In reality, it is better that the government should assign some skillful drivers, who have enough driving experience, to impart the driving lesson. Thus, if the arguer can provide some assumption that the high school can employ some experienced drivers to serve as teachers for driver's education course, I would be willing to encourage the young generation to joint the lesson.
Finally, even the aforementioned assumptions can be accepted and support the argument without any doubt, the argument merely relied on the assumption is unaccepted that the parents are too busy to teach their children. From my perspective, teaching their children how to avoid dangerous accidents is inevitable duty for all parents, which cannot be replaced by any school. If the parents are unable to provide basic and essential skills to their young children, those new generation will fall into a lot of unnecessary troubles without enough assistance.
Overall, it is unresonable that the high school provide all driver's education course and the parents just give up the associated duty.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 4 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 364 350
No. of Characters: 1855 1500
No. of Different Words: 176 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.368 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.096 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.609 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 153 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 108 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 66 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 41 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 26 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.653 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.571 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.388 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.388 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.113 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 61, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'drivers'' or 'driver's'?
Suggestion: drivers'; driver's
...uer, the high school should provide the drivers education course for teenage student in...
^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 368, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[2]
Message: Did you mean 'using'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'allow' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: using
...erspective, the teenage drivers allowed to use their own or parents cars should obtain...
^^^^^^
Line 2, column 514, Rule ID: AFFORD_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the infinitive: 'to traffic'
Suggestion: to traffic
...tire drivers training, such as learning traffic law. Furthermore, it is confusing that...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 61, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'drivers'' or 'driver's'?
Suggestion: drivers'; driver's
...onable that the high school provide all drivers education course and the parents just g...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, firstly, furthermore, if, so, thus, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 44.0 55.5748502994 79% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1892.0 2260.96107784 84% => OK
No of words: 364.0 441.139720559 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1978021978 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.36792674256 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68632436732 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 183.0 204.123752495 90% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.502747252747 0.468620217663 107% => OK
syllable_count: 575.1 705.55239521 82% => 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: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.5805359386 57.8364921388 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.142857143 119.503703932 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.0 23.324526521 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.21428571429 5.70786347227 74% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.231517082706 0.218282227539 106% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0931567436046 0.0743258471296 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0689734828139 0.0701772020484 98% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.150343314689 0.128457276422 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0645411547156 0.0628817314937 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.1 14.3799401198 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.18 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 98.500998004 86% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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