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."
The memorandum states that building the subway system would help to improve the economy of Briggsville by increase work productivity through the system. However, this is questionable since the assumptions made lacks the evidence to support it. First, it assumes that people would become used to the subway system. Second, the statement assumes that increasing transportation will help in increasing productivity, and finally, they assume that productivity is the only factor affecting the economy of Briggsville.
The argument assumes that all the people living in that area would become inured to the subway system. This might not be true as it doesn't take into account the people who would prefer this system since for a bit older or younger person this system can be complex and difficult to understand and can lead to a decrease in productivity as they won't be able to do the work at the faster pace due to the complexity of the system implemented and the time it took them to work.
Increasing transportation won't necessarily imply that there would be an increase in productivity since they didn't consider what a person might go through daily, one who might be living alone will have to do all the work at his house and then we have to do the office work which can affect his productivity. It depends on how a person manages to live and maintain time.
Moreover, the argument assumes that productivity is the only factor that is affecting the economy which is based on a vague idea. There can be other reasons like the stock market, the damages that are been faced daily, etc. All these factors also play a major role in deciding the improvement of the economy.
All in all, the argument presented lacks evidence to support the assumptions. People may have other difficulties too which may affect their productivity along with the economy. It's not necessary that everyone would be able to understand the new system implemented which in the case would lead to loss of millions of dollar and hence this can lead to futile results.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 351 350
No. of Characters: 1667 1500
No. of Different Words: 161 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.328 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.749 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.651 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 109 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 73 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 48 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 33 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 18.047 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.615 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.374 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.625 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.096 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 133, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...ay system. This might not be true as it doesnt take into account the people who would ...
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Line 5, column 109, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
... an increase in productivity since they didnt consider what a person might go through...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, hence, however, if, may, moreover, second, so, then
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 13.6137724551 125% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 55.5748502994 76% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1699.0 2260.96107784 75% => OK
No of words: 347.0 441.139720559 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.89625360231 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31600926901 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70457371861 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 204.123752495 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.472622478386 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 539.1 705.55239521 76% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 89.4467119894 57.8364921388 155% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.357142857 119.503703932 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7857142857 23.324526521 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.21428571429 5.70786347227 91% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0865971670378 0.218282227539 40% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0369450491691 0.0743258471296 50% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0519392679217 0.0701772020484 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0505913007523 0.128457276422 39% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.038199228942 0.0628817314937 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.44 12.5979740519 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.88 8.32208582834 95% => OK
difficult_words: 67.0 98.500998004 68% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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