The following appeared in a memorandum written by the chairperson of the West Egg Town Council.
"Two years ago, consultants predicted that West Egg's landfill, which is used for garbage disposal, would be completely filled within five years. During the past two years, however, the town's residents have been recycling twice as much material as they did in previous years. Next month the amount of recycled material — which includes paper, plastic, and metal — should further increase, since charges for pickup of other household garbage will double. Furthermore, over 90 percent of the respondents to a recent survey said that they would do more recycling in the future. Because of our town's strong commitment to recycling, the available space in our landfill should last for considerably longer than predicted."
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
In the recommendation, from the chair person of the West Egg Town Council, it is stated that, the residence will recycle the garbage at an significantly higher rate and as a result of which the land fill will sustain for longer time. However, befor this prompt is properly evaluated, author must provide us with some answers.
Firstly, the author mentions that the prediction of the consultant that the landfill will be completly filled has failed. But, we are not provided the previous scenario that lead the consultant to come to this conclusion. It could be that the recycling rate of garbage in West Egg Town was significantly low due to lack of awareness of the recycling in the past. And, recently may be that the council is running the recycling campaign heavily. Also, it could be that previously, the cost of garbage collection was cheap so, people did not care about the recycling then that of now.
Secondly, the author mentions that the quantity of the material for recycle will be increased from the next month, as the cost for the garbage collection will be double of the existing price. However, we are neither provided with any information on the cost of the existing price nor we know by what amount the price will increase. Also, it is stated in the prompt that, the recycling of the plastic, paper and metal will increase; however he does not give any evidance to relay on the information. Also, there is special skill and knowledge required to reuse such material to recycle, and prompt has not provided us with the evidence that the people of the West Egg Town Council are capable of recycling.
Lastly, the author mentions that in a survey respondent said that they will do more recycling in the future. However, here we are not provided any information on the type of survey, that if the survey was based on the recycling issue only or the survey was conducted for some other purpose but they also included few questions about the recycling of garbage. Also, we do not know that when was the survey conducted?, how was it conducted?, who conducted it, what are the basis to relay on the answers of the survey?, who participated in the survey?
In conclusion, the prompt as it is relies excessesively on the unwarranted assumption. And, we cannot evaluate it properly as of now. So, if the provides us with the additional information answering the above mentioned question. Then we can evaluate the reliability of the prompt properly.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 12 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 425 350
No. of Characters: 1976 1500
No. of Different Words: 179 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.54 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.649 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.576 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 134 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 102 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 75 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.611 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.74 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.889 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.337 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.579 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.212 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 137, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...e residence will recycle the garbage at an significantly higher rate and as a resu...
^^
Line 6, column 134, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[4]
Message: “So , if” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
... cannot evaluate it properly as of now. So, if the provides us with the additional inf...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, then, in conclusion, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 38.0 28.8173652695 132% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2040.0 2260.96107784 90% => OK
No of words: 425.0 441.139720559 96% => OK
Chars per words: 4.8 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54043259262 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68190501936 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 190.0 204.123752495 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.447058823529 0.468620217663 95% => OK
syllable_count: 636.3 705.55239521 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.4976381694 57.8364921388 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.333333333 119.503703932 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6111111111 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.94444444444 5.70786347227 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.67664670659 235% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.135996133411 0.218282227539 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0481062915835 0.0743258471296 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0657203117739 0.0701772020484 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.08603199584 0.128457276422 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.075421509039 0.0628817314937 120% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.86 12.5979740519 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.01 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 98.500998004 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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