The following is a letter to the editor of the Waymarsh Times."Traffic here in Waymarsh is becoming a problem. Although just three years ago a state traffic survey showed that the typical driving commuter took 20 minutes to get to work, the commute now ta

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The following is a letter to the editor of the Waymarsh Times.

"Traffic here in Waymarsh is becoming a problem. Although just three years ago a state traffic survey showed that the typical driving commuter took 20 minutes to get to work, the commute now takes closer to 40 minutes, according to the survey just completed. Members of the town council already have suggested more road building to address the problem, but as well as being expensive, the new construction will surely disrupt some of our residential neighborhoods. It would be better to follow the example of the nearby city of Garville. Last year Garville implemented a policy that rewards people who share rides to work, giving them coupons for free gas. Pollution levels in Garville have dropped since the policy was implemented, and people from Garville tell me that commuting times have fallen considerably. There is no reason why a policy like Garville's shouldn't work equally well in Waymarsh."

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 author of this analytical piece argues that the policy that was implemented in the Garville city will definitely work in the Waymarsh. The argument fails to mention several key factors with the help of which it could be better evaluated. However, careful scrutiny of the evidence reveals that it provides little credible support to the author's argument. Hence, the argument of the author is incomplete and unsubstantiate.
Firstly, it is mentioned in the contention that the typical driver took 20 minutes more to reach the desired destination than before. But, there might be several other reasons that are possible like, he might be stopping somewhere in order to have tea or for any other reason. It is also possible that due to some reason he might changed his path of driving from one place to another. It is not mentioned in the argument whether, he drives on the same path or has he took a different path. Also, it might be possible that the vehicle might have inculcated some problem and because of that is the delatory of the commuter.
Secondly, it is stated in the contention that it would be better to follow the policy of Garville for the results desired. This raises some questions like Does Garville occupies almost same number of the vehicles? Even if it does, then How the goegraphic conditions of Garville are different than Waymarsh? If it is different than does it affects the policy or not? These are some questions that must be answered by the author in order to properly evaluate the argument and to present with the credible solution.
Also, here it is assumed that the pollution levels in the Garville has been reduced due to the implementation of the policy. But, there is no support to the assertion in the argument. It might be possible that the reduction in the pollution has undergone due to some other reasons. Also, it might be possible that there is minor amount of the reduction in the pollution. Therefore, for the further assessment of the argument the author must mention about these questions and must answer some questions that are necessary for the content to be evaluated.
To sum it up, the argument of the author is unpersuasive. To bolster it further, author must present with clear and concrete evidence, perhaps by the way of detailed analysis about how the traffic reduction can be done in the city and also on the proper reasons of the traffic. Thus, for better assessment of the argument further more information must be provided by the author.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 341, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...provides little credible support to the authors argument. Hence, the argument of the au...
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Line 3, column 170, Rule ID: DOES_X_HAS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'occupy'? As 'do' is already inflected, the verb cannot also be inflected.
Suggestion: occupy
...aises some questions like Does Garville occupies almost same number of the vehicles? Eve...
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Line 3, column 293, Rule ID: RATHER_THEN[2]
Message: Did you mean 'different 'from''? 'Different than' is often considered colloquial style.
Suggestion: from
...ic conditions of Garville are different than Waymarsh? If it is different than does ...
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Line 3, column 327, Rule ID: RATHER_THEN[2]
Message: Did you mean 'different 'from''? 'Different than' is often considered colloquial style.
Suggestion: from
...erent than Waymarsh? If it is different than does it affects the policy or not? Thes...
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Line 3, column 340, Rule ID: DOES_NP_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'affect'?
Suggestion: affect
...ymarsh? If it is different than does it affects the policy or not? These are some quest...
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Line 3, column 340, Rule ID: DOES_X_HAS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'affect'? As 'do' is already inflected, the verb cannot also be inflected.
Suggestion: affect
...ymarsh? If it is different than does it affects the policy or not? These are some quest...
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Line 5, column 380, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rmation must be provided by the author.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'firstly', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'second', 'secondly', 'so', 'then', 'therefore', 'thus', 'by the way']

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

Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.189765458422 0.25644967241 74% => OK
Verbs: 0.155650319829 0.15541462614 100% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0831556503198 0.0836205057962 99% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0554371002132 0.0520304965353 107% => OK
Pronouns: 0.044776119403 0.0272364105082 164% => Less pronouns wanted. Try not to use 'you, I, they, he...' as the subject of a sentence
Prepositions: 0.134328358209 0.125424944231 107% => OK
Participles: 0.0319829424307 0.0416121511921 77% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.61693945154 2.79052419416 94% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0319829424307 0.026700313972 120% => OK
Particles: 0.00213219616205 0.001811407834 118% => OK
Determiners: 0.138592750533 0.113004496875 123% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0341151385928 0.0255425247493 134% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0127931769723 0.0127820249294 100% => OK

Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2504.0 2731.13054187 92% => OK
No of words: 430.0 446.07635468 96% => OK
Chars per words: 5.82325581395 6.12365571057 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.55372829156 4.57801047555 99% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.348837209302 0.378187486979 92% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.286046511628 0.287650121315 99% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.202325581395 0.208842608468 97% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.109302325581 0.135150697306 81% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61693945154 2.79052419416 94% => OK
Unique words: 185.0 207.018472906 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.43023255814 0.469332199767 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 46.5613246497 52.1807786196 89% => OK
How many sentences: 22.0 20.039408867 110% => OK
Sentence length: 19.5454545455 23.2022227129 84% => OK
Sentence length SD: 38.7107572552 57.7814097925 67% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.818181818 141.986410481 80% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5454545455 23.2022227129 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.636363636364 0.724660767414 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 7.0 3.58251231527 195% => Correct essay format wanted or double check grammar & spelling issues after essay writing.
Readability: 48.1501057082 51.9672348444 93% => OK
Elegance: 1.39166666667 1.8405768891 76% => OK

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.513926082192 0.441005458295 117% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.163648829172 0.135418324435 121% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.104496474133 0.0829849096947 126% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.62751610818 0.58762219726 107% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.101620225204 0.147661913831 69% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.255989471537 0.193483328276 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0967460750693 0.0970749176394 100% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.542657389395 0.42659136922 127% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.081593193266 0.0774707102158 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.397430105482 0.312017818177 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0364401533575 0.0698173142475 52% => The ideas may be duplicated in paragraphs.

Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.33743842365 108% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.87684729064 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.82512315271 124% => OK
Positive topic words: 8.0 6.46551724138 124% => OK
Negative topic words: 7.0 5.36822660099 130% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.82389162562 106% => OK
Total topic words: 18.0 14.657635468 123% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

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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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