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

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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."

In the letter to the editor, the author concludes that the West Lansburg Council should not allow the roads to be built along the coastal wetlands. As it can be seen that the tufted groundhog lives in the coastal wetlands of the West Lansburg, it is very important that the area is protected and reserved.

The author bases his conclusion by comparing results with Neighboring Eastern Carpenteria, which had a similar sanctuary. However, the sanctuary status was repealed in 1978 due to which constructions were allowed, which in turn harmed the aquatic life of the sea. Hence, the author thinks that the same would result in West Lansburg and hence, doesn’t want the road to be built. It is very important that the condition of Neighboring Eastern Carpenteria must be examined before jumping to conclusions. The author must not be aware of a number of other reasons for the depletion of aquatic life in that area.

Firstly, the author assumes that decrease of the population of the sea was because of the repeal of its sanctuary status. The author nowhere mentions that the new status involves building of roads which would actually affect the wildlife.

Secondly, the author doesn’t find out the actual reasons for the reducing number of the groundhog. As it is mentioned that the number was once in millions, it is very important to find out the actual reason behind the falling figures. Measures must be taken with respect to the actual reasons of the falling numbers.

Also, the author nowhere mentions that how the construction of the road along the coastline would affect the groundhog. As long as the construction of the roads doesn’t harm its natural habitat and the coastline is not destroyed by its construction, it would be good enough to construct roads.

Hence, it is necessary for the author to gets the fact right before concluding the entire discussion on general information.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, first, firstly, hence, however, if, second, secondly, so, with respect to

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 11.1786427146 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => 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: 1609.0 2260.96107784 71% => OK
No of words: 319.0 441.139720559 72% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04388714734 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.22617688928 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71861487435 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 204.123752495 73% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.46394984326 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 469.8 705.55239521 67% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 22.6199518616 57.8364921388 39% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 107.266666667 119.503703932 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2666666667 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.93333333333 5.70786347227 104% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.172799020014 0.218282227539 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0639770697669 0.0743258471296 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0837846167242 0.0701772020484 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0919298125866 0.128457276422 72% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.107302215035 0.0628817314937 171% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.32208582834 101% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 98.500998004 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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 -- 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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