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.
It is opined that the constuction of subway system at Briggsville's would address the issue of traffic congestion and bring about improvement in Briggsville's economy. However, this stated asumption might be flawed in the sense that the real reason for the construction could have being censored. To clarify the main purpose for the construction of the Briggsville's subway system, the following assumption would be considered.
First, the assumption that the subway was going to be a better pathway for the residents of the area was opined by only one person - Mayor Harrison. Could it be that the constuction was for political reasons? or to create a name in the environment?. This unstated assumption on the primary reason or purpose for this establishment was emmited. It could be aasumed that he also needed economic boost which could be for his personal gain or for the community as a whole was not stated.
Second, the complains where majored on inconsistency of buses but instead a subway is the only solution proferred. Assuming the residents requested for buses and probably safety rules for safe driving to be implented. The residents demand/ request can be questioned, assuming they gave this as an excuse for not being productive at work or to be late.
In conclusion, the constuction of subway system at Briggsville's would address the issue of traffic congestion and bring about improvement in Briggsville economy, clarify this stated assumption for the main purpose for the construction of the Briggsville's subway system, aforementioned assumption would be considered.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 1 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 8 2
No. of Sentences: 11 15
No. of Words: 253 350
No. of Characters: 1306 1500
No. of Different Words: 123 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 3.988 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.162 4.6
Word Length SD: 3.021 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 97 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 71 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 50 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 41 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.851 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.455 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.388 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.388 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.073 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 209, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Or
... constuction was for political reasons? or to create a name in the environment?. T...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, second, so, as for, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 28.8173652695 56% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 55.5748502994 47% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1330.0 2260.96107784 59% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 253.0 441.139720559 57% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.25691699605 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.98822939669 4.56307096286 87% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.06653237505 2.78398813304 110% => OK
Unique words: 120.0 204.123752495 59% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.474308300395 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 406.8 705.55239521 58% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => 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: 12.0 19.7664670659 61% => 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: 65.6930995869 57.8364921388 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.833333333 119.503703932 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0833333333 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.75 5.70786347227 101% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.116393861676 0.218282227539 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0525148066484 0.0743258471296 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.064597103436 0.0701772020484 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0897559587828 0.128457276422 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0518474891105 0.0628817314937 82% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.9 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.36 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 98.500998004 60% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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