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 memorandum contains the decision of Mayor Harrison Smith to make a subway, spending a huge amount of money - to reduce the traffic congestion as well as to improve the economy of the city of Briggsville. Although the mayor has been sound in his logical argument, however, it might be a bit hasty to come to a conclusion based on the assumptions of the arguments, afflicted with implicated logical flaws.
To begin with - the mayor believed that providing the subway in the downtown areas will increase both the availability and safety of the bus-travellers. But what if that is not the case. As there is not enough necessary informations regarding the routes of the buses mentioned in the prompt, it might be supposed that the routes of the buses are not different from the vehicles that are still on the highway. That is to say, both of these vehicles actually follow the same paths to their destinations because of unavailability of different routes. In that case - the concept of building a subway will nothing but make the destination a more tortuitose one.
Secondly - it is assumed by the mayor that the buses will surely take the subway to leave their passengers to their respective destinations. He is missing the points that what if the bus drivers are more inclined to serve the passenegers of the municipal areas than to the passenegers of downtown area - may be in order to earn more profit or various reasons. Subsidiry to this - there is no obliogation for the drivers to take the subway rote mentioned in the passage. So, it might not be a bad idea actually to suspect the proclivity of the bus drivers to avoid the subway route in earn better.
Also the assumption that - building the subway for sufficient movement of traffic will increase the security of the passenegers - might be a placebo to the regards of the traffic problem. More prominent reason might be that - because of a new route many buses will be available to serve their purposes and ultimately cause traffic jam to that route too - which is quite a possible problem to spot out as soon as the subway is built. As a result, the urgency of the people to take on their respective buses to reach their destinations will also jump. This increment will result in an unhealthy competition among the people to board into the buses before others - which might be a major cause for the physical harms of many passenegers, violatiing the safety measures. Apart from this part - even if it is supposed that only calculated number of buses are there in the subway - what is probability of higher safety if proper timing or schedule is not maintained for better travelling. It is nevertheless true for places like downtowns where the population density is less and thereby incite many to commit criminal activities.
So, looking at overall ideas, logical reasoniong and critical remarks - it might be better idea to take into account proper and much more speculations of the deciding factors and purposes before coming to any conclusion as the prompt lacks the answers of many questions; important for the clarifications of the assumptions of the Mayor Harrison Smith Jones.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 6 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 10 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 536 350
No. of Characters: 2551 1500
No. of Different Words: 244 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.812 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.759 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.702 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 173 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 129 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 92 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 59 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 29.778 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.316 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.833 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.323 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.538 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.071 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, if, look, may, nevertheless, regarding, second, secondly, so, still, well, apart from, as to, as a result, as well as, to begin with, that is to say
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 81.0 55.5748502994 146% => 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: 2611.0 2260.96107784 115% => OK
No of words: 536.0 441.139720559 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87126865672 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.81161862636 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78480232098 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 243.0 204.123752495 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.453358208955 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 833.4 705.55239521 118% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 29.0 22.8473053892 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 69.127744515 57.8364921388 120% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.055555556 119.503703932 121% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.7777777778 23.324526521 128% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.88888888889 5.70786347227 173% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.189859067151 0.218282227539 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0630962842465 0.0743258471296 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0593851134454 0.0701772020484 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.113780106655 0.128457276422 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0370943595705 0.0628817314937 59% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 14.3799401198 114% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 42.04 48.3550499002 87% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.6 12.197005988 120% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.56 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.61 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 120.0 98.500998004 122% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.1389221557 122% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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