The following appeared in a memo from a budget planner for the city of Grandview.
"When the Grandview Symphony was established ten years ago, the city of Grandview agreed to provide the symphony with annual funding until the symphony became self-sustaining. Two years ago, the symphony hired an internationally known conductor, who has been able to attract high-profile guest musicians to perform with the symphony. Since then, private contributions to the symphony have tripled and attendance at the symphony's outdoor summer concert series has reached record highs. Now that the symphony has succeeded in finding an audience, the city can eliminate its funding of the symphony."
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 the memo, the budget planner adamantly believe that the Grandview Symphony gained popularity to the state that does not require any subsidies from the city. He bases this argument on the high-acclaimed incumbent conductor, recent record of private contributios and the symphony’s outdoor summer concert sales. Although this argument may seem convincing at first glance, the argument is rife with unwarranted assumptions which lead me to cast doubt on the validity of the argument.
To begin with, the budget planner implicitly assumes that the income of the symphony is enough to sustain th...
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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: 19 15
No. of Words: 383 350
No. of Characters: 2053 1500
No. of Different Words: 193 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.424 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.36 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.892 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 169 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 126 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 90 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 62 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.158 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.08 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.579 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.343 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.562 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.097 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 453, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun people is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...ot stated, it is entirely possible that less people pay a visit to the indoor concer...
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Line 7, column 221, Rule ID: MOST_SOME_OF_NNS[1]
Message: After 'most of', you should use 'the' ('most of the audiences') or simply say ''most audiences''.
Suggestion: most of the audiences; most audiences
...pens, the symphony would likely to lose most of audiences making the income plummet. Furtheremore...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, may, moreover, second, so, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 11.1786427146 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 55.5748502994 76% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2155.0 2260.96107784 95% => OK
No of words: 383.0 441.139720559 87% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.62663185379 5.12650576532 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.42384287591 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.2352577241 2.78398813304 116% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 204.123752495 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.524804177546 0.468620217663 112% => OK
syllable_count: 661.5 705.55239521 94% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.70958083832 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.736758563 57.8364921388 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.421052632 119.503703932 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1578947368 23.324526521 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.57894736842 5.70786347227 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => 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: 0.196062974717 0.218282227539 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.069127615574 0.0743258471296 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0614800481209 0.0701772020484 88% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.107787079849 0.128457276422 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0450637741063 0.0628817314937 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 14.3799401198 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.72 48.3550499002 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 15.37 12.5979740519 122% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.08 8.32208582834 109% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 98.500998004 110% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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