The following appears in a letter to the editor for the West Lansburg News:
"The tufted groundhog lives in the coastal wetlands of West Lansburg. Ancient records suggest that the tufted groundhog once numbered in the millions. Since they were declared a wildlife sanctuary in 2004, development along the coastal wetlands has been prohibited. Now local development interests are lobbying for the West Lansburg council to allow an access road to be built along the edge of wetlands. Neighboring Eastern Carpenteria, which had a similar sanctuary, has seen its sea otter population decline since the repeal of its sanctuary status in 1978. In order to preserve the region's biodiversity and ensure a healthy environment, the West Lansburg council should not allow the road to be built."
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.
The argument does not have any proper evidence that maintains that the sanctuary may be affected due to construction of roads.
The argument fails to address on what exactly led to repeal the sanctuary's status in 1978.It may be due to various other issues like change in environmental conditions,impact due to pollution or change in lifestyle habitats.
The argument fails to explain the similarities between the tufted groundhog and sea otters.So this does not provide enough evidence to say that the laying of roads might have deleterious effects on the environment.Sine sea otters and tufted groundhogs requires different environmental habitats,the groundhogs might not see the laying of roads as a threat to its survival.
The letter states that the sanctuaries were similar but fails to address the similarities between the occupants of the sanctuaries.
So this does not provide enough evidence to the West Lansburg council to reconsider their decision to build the road.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...to repeal the sanctuarys status in 1978.It may be due to various other issues like...
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... like change in environmental conditions,impact due to pollution or change in lifestyle...
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...een the tufted groundhog and sea otters.So this does not provide enough evidence t...
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... deleterious effects on the environment.Sine sea otters and tufted groundhogs requir...
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...equires different environmental habitats,the groundhogs might not see the laying of ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, may, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 19.6327345309 15% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 12.9520958084 31% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 4.0 13.6137724551 29% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 9.0 28.8173652695 31% => OK
Preposition: 24.0 55.5748502994 43% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 836.0 2260.96107784 37% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 154.0 441.139720559 35% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.42857142857 5.12650576532 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.52273666998 4.56307096286 77% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14350106101 2.78398813304 113% => OK
Unique words: 87.0 204.123752495 43% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.564935064935 0.468620217663 121% => OK
syllable_count: 246.6 705.55239521 35% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 5.0 19.7664670659 25% => 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: 30.0 22.8473053892 131% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 96.6962253658 57.8364921388 167% => OK
Chars per sentence: 167.2 119.503703932 140% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.8 23.324526521 132% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.2 5.70786347227 56% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 0.0 8.20758483034 0% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.116675349662 0.218282227539 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0554835026573 0.0743258471296 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0527449903334 0.0701772020484 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0554835026573 0.128457276422 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0527449903334 0.0628817314937 84% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 19.5 14.3799401198 136% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.03 48.3550499002 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.197005988 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.81 12.5979740519 118% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.12 8.32208582834 110% => OK
difficult_words: 39.0 98.500998004 40% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 12.3882235529 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 11.1389221557 126% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Minimum 250 words wanted.
Rates: 33.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 2.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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