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.
In this letter, the author recommends a high-school-sponsored driving education program and predicts that such program could help solve with teenager driving issue in Centerville. To support his/her claim, the author quotes the accidents relevant with young driver, parental situation for current driving course and implies the efficency of suggested program. While the author's recommendation seems beneficial to some extent, the reasoning of this argument is unconvincing due to the potential assumptions which, if proven unwarranted, will seriously challenge the author's viewpoint.
To start off, the author's recommendation heavily relies on the assumption that the issue of driving accidents involving with teenager driver in Centerville already reaches so severe level to require an immediate measures be taken. Based on this assumption, the author proposed further that a formal direction should be applied to enable teenager driver to became safe driver. However, such assumption might be potentially problematic because we're informed with number of the accidents. And it's also unclear that the teenager driver should be to blame for the accidents. Furthermore, we also don not know whether the teenager drivers are local. If it turns out that the accidents in and around Cenerville are not sufficiently serious, or they can be ascribed to other factors, rather than teenager driver's negligence, the author's recommendation of school-sponsored program lose its ground.
Additionally, by stating parents have either little time or funding to supply their children with driving course, the author rules out all other alternatives which could rival with proposed program. However, such assumption seems suspicious without sufficient information to support that such program could the only solution for solving with driving issue. It's likely that parents just take their unavailability as execute because they are reluctant to teach children personally. Additionally, we also couldn't preclude the probability that parents with financial dilemma could only occupy minority of the whole population. Furthermore, the government-sponsored program could also serve as alternative methods. If any of assumptions mentioned all is valid, the validity of so-called unique solution via school-sponsored program would be deprived and the author's recommendation would become unreliable.
Last but not least, even if all of aforementioned assumptions are valid, the author's recommendation could be unnecessary due to the doubtful assumption of the efficiency of the proposed school-sponsored program. Claiming that the program will be efficient, the author seems too optimistic. First of all, it's unreasonable to assume that parents, especially who are willing to teach children by themselves, could readily accept the mandatory school-sponsored program. In addition, the author hastily comes to a conclusion that school could afford such cost but don't discuss whether school are financially capable of doing so. Furthermore, granted that we can put such program into practise, it's also not guaranteed that the number of accidents would indeed decrease after its implementation. If any of assumed situations mentioned above would happen, the efficiency of the program could diminish, therefore, the author's recommendation could face huge challenges.
In summary, whether we could implement the author's recommendation heavily depend on the validity of assumption aforementioned. If assumptions prove unreliable, the author's recommendation could become little more than the author's wistful thinking, and we should consider other solutions to settle down the driving issue relevant with teenager drivers in and around Centerville.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 546 350
No. of Characters: 3128 1500
No. of Different Words: 256 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.834 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.729 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.193 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 255 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 205 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 142 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 95 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.739 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.588 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.739 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.351 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.531 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.166 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 371, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...ficency of suggested program. While the authors recommendation seems beneficial to some...
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Line 1, column 566, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...warranted, will seriously challenge the authors viewpoint. To start off, the autho...
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Line 5, column 19, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...thors viewpoint. To start off, the authors recommendation heavily relies on the as...
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Line 5, column 213, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'measure'?
Suggestion: measure
...so severe level to require an immediate measures be taken. Based on this assumption, the...
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Line 5, column 798, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'drivers'' or 'driver's'?
Suggestion: drivers'; driver's
... to other factors, rather than teenager drivers negligence, the authors recommendation ...
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Line 5, column 822, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...r than teenager drivers negligence, the authors recommendation of school-sponsored prog...
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Line 9, column 503, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: couldn't
...ldren personally. Additionally, we also couldnt preclude the probability that parents w...
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Line 9, column 854, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...sored program would be deprived and the authors recommendation would become unreliable....
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Line 13, column 78, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...orementioned assumptions are valid, the authors recommendation could be unnecessary due...
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Line 13, column 560, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
... that school could afford such cost but dont discuss whether school are financially ...
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Line 13, column 690, Rule ID: IT_IS[6]
Message: Did you mean 'it's' (='it is') instead of 'its' (possessive pronoun)?
Suggestion: it's; it is
... we can put such program into practise, its also not guaranteed that the number of ...
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Line 13, column 911, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
... program could diminish, therefore, the authors recommendation could face huge challeng...
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Line 17, column 44, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...summary, whether we could implement the authors recommendation heavily depend on the va...
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Line 17, column 165, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...d. If assumptions prove unreliable, the authors recommendation could become little more...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, so, therefore, while, in addition, in summary, such as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 24.0 12.9520958084 185% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 28.8173652695 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 65.0 55.5748502994 117% => OK
Nominalization: 27.0 16.3942115768 165% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3194.0 2260.96107784 141% => OK
No of words: 542.0 441.139720559 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.89298892989 5.12650576532 115% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82502781895 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.26210323567 2.78398813304 117% => OK
Unique words: 263.0 204.123752495 129% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.485239852399 0.468620217663 104% => OK
syllable_count: 966.6 705.55239521 137% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 15.0 8.76447105788 171% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.70958083832 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.7189218846 57.8364921388 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 138.869565217 119.503703932 116% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5652173913 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.86956521739 5.70786347227 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 14.0 5.25449101796 266% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.134970745446 0.218282227539 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0475449637427 0.0743258471296 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.043093097148 0.0701772020484 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0870123963841 0.128457276422 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0488502791041 0.0628817314937 78% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.1 14.3799401198 126% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 31.21 48.3550499002 65% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.197005988 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 17.18 12.5979740519 136% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.06 8.32208582834 109% => OK
difficult_words: 147.0 98.500998004 149% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 12.3882235529 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => 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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