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 wi

The given argument is flawed for numerous reasons. The conclusion pointed out in the passage based on some unwarrented assumptions and they will be elaborated below.

First of all, the passage points out that the ancient records show that the number of turfted groundhog was several millions. However, the passage does not indicate any current statistics about tufted groundhog. It is possible that there is still a glut of tufted groundhog and the construction of a road will have a negligeable effect on their number. It is also likely that the current amount tufted groudnhog is so scarse and is deterotiating with singificant rate, so that governmental measures are unlikely to resolve the issue.

Secondly, the passage shows information about sea otter decline in Neighboring Eastern Carpenteria. However, based on what happened to sea otter, we cannot make conclusions and decisions about tufted groundhog. If the landscape fulll of constructions are inimical to the existense of sea otters, it does not mean that it will have the same effect on turfted groundhog. Therefore, it should be first found out whether tufted groundhogs and sea otters prefer similar lifstyle and perefer similar landscape.

Even if we assume that groundhogs and sea otters have similar responses to the development along their living area, we do not know what exactly was the reason of decline in the number sea otters. There might be some other reasons for their decline. It is possible there were some environmental issues on the landscape. For example, the temperature might have been increased or decline which led to the decline of the number of sea otters.

Lastly, is it correct that we are comparing Neighboring Eastern Capenteria. May be Neighboring Eastern Carpenteria has pretty different landscape and is not possible to be compared with West Lansburg. It is also possible that no construction has taken place on Neighboring Eastern Capenteria until now, which means that the reason of population decline of sea otters is not because of developmental sanctuary.

Based on the arguments which have been discussed above, the conclusion pointed out in the passage is not correct. Some more evidence and unwarrednted assumptions must be taken into considerations before making decision about West Lansburg sanctuary.

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Average: 6.3 (3 votes)
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ns and they will be elaborated below. First of all, the passage points out ...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...t is also likely that the current amount tufted groudnhog is so scarse and is det...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, lastly, may, second, secondly, so, still, therefore, for example, first of all

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 55.5748502994 81% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1958.0 2260.96107784 87% => OK
No of words: 368.0 441.139720559 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.32065217391 5.12650576532 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37987740619 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.89628534662 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 204.123752495 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.483695652174 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 607.5 705.55239521 86% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
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: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.1338829223 57.8364921388 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 103.052631579 119.503703932 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.3684210526 23.324526521 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.47368421053 5.70786347227 96% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.175112282776 0.218282227539 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0561337238706 0.0743258471296 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0450188746692 0.0701772020484 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0861054244728 0.128457276422 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0512030715172 0.0628817314937 81% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.3 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.3550499002 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.58 12.5979740519 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.57 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 368 350
No. of Characters: 1904 1500
No. of Different Words: 174 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.38 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.174 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.828 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 146 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 112 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 73 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 54 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19.368 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.707 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.684 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.319 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.593 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.115 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5