The following is a memorandum from the office of Mayor Harrison Smith Jones.
"In order to relieve Briggsville’s notorious traffic congestion, Mayor Harrison Smith Jones plans to build a multi-million dollar subway system. The subway will run through the major downtown areas, a part of the town where buses serve as the only form of public transportation. For years, residents have been complaining both about inconsistent buses, and the general lack of safety while riding the buses. Additionally, the subway will be running twenty-four hours a day. Since motorists will spend less time in traffic, Mayor Harrison Smith Jones expects to see an immediate increase in worker productivity, which will improve the economy of Briggsville."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The statement is about building up multi-million dollar subway stations in order to relieve Briggsville notorious traffic problem. Here, the Author has stated many assumptions which support the conclusion. But, there are many unstated assumptions that need to look upon.
In the statement, Mayor has mentioned that Subway will run through major downtown areas where only buses are used as a mode of transportation. Further, it is added that for many years complaint is coming regarding the inconsistency of buses service and lack in a safety issue.
The question comes " is it necessary to build such a multi-million dollar subway". "Is it necessary to spend so much money on a problem which can handle manually?". Here, the author has failed to mention explicitly the cuase for problem face by the city. May be, due to the bad handling system of the municipality has caue inconsistency in bus service. Or Buse maintenance has not been done for long time. Lastly, the Author has supported the conclusion that due to the general lack of safety subway will be built. So, " Is it the only reason to curb it ?". Will safety be maintained after that? Therefore, the Author should have mentioned the solid reason for building a subway. There are many logical fallacy which weaken the argument.
Secondly, Author mentioned about the motorist and improve in the economy of Briggsville because by building subway, productivity will increase. Here Author has not mentioned exactly " How will productivity will increase?". Either worker will not get stucked in the traffic due to service or due to subway traffic will relief". The author has presented a broad scenario by considering such an assumption.
Therefore, there are many loopholes which which which weaken the argument. In order strengthen the argument author must has considered the logical assumption
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 17 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 23 15
No. of Words: 299 350
No. of Characters: 1501 1500
No. of Different Words: 152 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.158 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.02 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.733 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 112 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 78 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 55 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 38 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 13 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.771 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.391 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.292 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.427 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.042 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 179, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'years'' or 'year's'?
Suggestion: years'; year's
...ion. Further, it is added that for many years complaint is coming regarding the incon...
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Line 4, column 733, Rule ID: THERE_RE_MANY[3]
Message: Possible agreement error. Did you mean 'fallacies'?
Suggestion: fallacies
...ilding a subway. There are many logical fallacy which weaken the argument. Secondly,...
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Line 8, column 37, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: which
... Therefore, there are many loopholes which which which weaken the argument. In order str...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, lastly, look, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, therefore
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 10.0 28.8173652695 35% => OK
Preposition: 34.0 55.5748502994 61% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 16.3942115768 67% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1604.0 2260.96107784 71% => OK
No of words: 303.0 441.139720559 69% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.29372937294 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.56307096286 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97427676183 2.78398813304 107% => OK
Unique words: 160.0 204.123752495 78% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.528052805281 0.468620217663 113% => OK
syllable_count: 495.0 705.55239521 70% => OK
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
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 14.0 22.8473053892 61% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 29.2253733762 57.8364921388 51% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 76.380952381 119.503703932 64% => OK
Words per sentence: 14.4285714286 23.324526521 62% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.42857142857 5.70786347227 60% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.186680238341 0.218282227539 86% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0567795980336 0.0743258471296 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0796414481126 0.0701772020484 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109798436884 0.128457276422 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0534907646946 0.0628817314937 85% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.7 14.3799401198 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.27 48.3550499002 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.8 12.197005988 72% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.81 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.19 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 74.0 98.500998004 75% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 7.6 11.1389221557 68% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.9071856287 67% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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