The following is a letter that recently appeared in the Oak City Gazette, a local newspaper.
"The primary function of the Committee for a Better Oak City is to advise the city government on how to make the best use of the city's limited budget. However, at some of our recent meetings we failed to make important decisions because of the foolish objections raised by committee members who are not even residents of Oak City. People who work in Oak City but who live elsewhere cannot fully understand the business and politics of the city. After all, only Oak City residents pay city taxes, and therefore only residents understand how that money could best be used to improve the city. We recommend, then, that the Committee for a Better Oak City vote to restrict its membership to city residents only. We predict that, without the interference of non-residents, the committee will be able to make Oak City a better place in which to live and work."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
In the letter, the author mentions limited decision making in recent meetings on the part of committee members due to superficial objections raised by non-resident committee members. Based on the presumption that residents are capable of better decision-making regarding the usage of their money, the author recommends that the Committee for a Better Oak City vote to make its membership exclusive to city residents. This recommendation, however, is based on unsubstantiated assumptions that dramatically decrease its persuasiveness. It thus, begs the answer to the following three questions to prove its credibility.
Firstly, what were the objections raised by the non-resident committee members, and to what extent do they affect the residents of Oak City? The author, without any evidence, presumptuously assumes that the objections raised by the non-resident committee members were "foolish". Foolishness is a subjective term, and without any concrete evidence, this statement cannot be used to back the author's recommendation.
Second, what were the qualifications, work experiences, and skills of the committee members? It is probable that the non-resident committee members are experts in their field and are scholars in the field of business and politics of cities. Maybe, they are experienced and have assisted other cities having similar problems like Oak City. Getting the opinion of such learned individuals, instead of being foolish, is in fact pragmatic.
Lastly, what is the age demographic of the population in Oak City? While the recommendation of leaving the decision of what is to become of their tax money on the residents themselves seems reasonable, it is flawed. Without knowing about factors like age, education, and income of the population, one cannot make a comprehensive analysis of the capability of the residents to manage their money. A majority of residents may be uneducated or even be minors, having no individual contribution to taxes. Without having the necessary knowledge of all the problems in the city, it will be difficult for residents to take an unbiased and informed decision about where their money should be used, such that it proves to be most beneficial.
Allowing people to judge what is best for them and prompting them to have an opinion about where their hard-earned money goes freely is an excellent thought. However, the conclusion presented by the author, suggesting the removal of non-resident committee members is based on unsubstantiated assumptions. Once the questions raised in above paragraphs are addressed, only then can the committee make an informed decision about voting to restrict its membership to city residents only.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 416 350
No. of Characters: 2221 1500
No. of Different Words: 197 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.516 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.339 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.108 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 170 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 134 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 103 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 78 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.895 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.84 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.579 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.323 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.552 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.095 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 401, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...is statement cannot be used to back the authors recommendation. Second, what were t...
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Line 5, column 437, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...of being foolish, is in fact pragmatic. Lastly, what is the age demographic of t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, however, if, lastly, may, regarding, second, so, then, thus, while, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 55.5748502994 115% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2297.0 2260.96107784 102% => OK
No of words: 416.0 441.139720559 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.52163461538 5.12650576532 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.51620172871 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.27204259029 2.78398813304 118% => OK
Unique words: 205.0 204.123752495 100% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.492788461538 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 721.8 705.55239521 102% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 45.2214005671 57.8364921388 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.894736842 119.503703932 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.8947368421 23.324526521 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.05263157895 5.70786347227 89% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.187461376352 0.218282227539 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0643265181939 0.0743258471296 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0819547809719 0.0701772020484 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119175537173 0.128457276422 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0645782127115 0.0628817314937 103% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 14.3799401198 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.3550499002 86% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.74 12.5979740519 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.35 8.32208582834 112% => OK
difficult_words: 123.0 98.500998004 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 12.3882235529 97% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.