The following recommendation appeared in a memo from the mayor of the town of Hopewell.
"Two years ago, the nearby town of Ocean View built a new municipal golf course and resort hotel. During the past two years, tourism in Ocean View has increased, new businesses have opened there, and Ocean View's tax revenues have risen by 30 percent. Therefore, the best way to improve Hopewell's economy — and generate additional tax revenues — is to build a golf course and resort hotel similar to those in Ocean View."
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 recommendation appeared in a memo directly make several assumptions before reaching to conclusion. It lacks several implications and factors and is insufficiently supported. In order to establish a strong support to the conclusion, more evidence is needed to warrant the argument.
The mayor mentions about the municipal golf course and resort built in the Ocean View two years ago. However, the mayor also substantiates that in the past two years the tourism in the Ocean view has increased and accounts the golf course and the resort hotel contributing for the most of it. Well, author here is establishing similar view point without considering the other factors that would affect the increase in tourism in Ocean view. Perhaps, a new amusement park which opened at the same time the resort did and also significant number of tourists are attracted towards the amusement park thereby increasing the tourism, and this has no concern with the resorts and the golf course. There is no evidence as to clearly suggest that increase in tourism was a result of the resort and golf course built. Without having proper data, we cannot evaluate mayor’s argument.
Further, it is also stated that new businesses have opened in Ocean view and tax revenues have risen by 30 percent. However, there is no clear implication that these businesses opened because they were attracted to the golf course and the resort hotel, and also how this contributed to the increase in tax revenues. The new businesses opening and tax revenues increasing might be corollary to some other factors, such as the population of the city, the amenities and facilities, and opportunities for employments etc. Also, there is no clear comparison on the factors that contribute for the economical growth between Ocean View and Hopewell. Thus, without the proper evidence it is difficult to evaluate the argument.
Additionally, the mayor is explicitly considering that generating the additional tax revenues would be the best way to improve Hopewell’s economy, by basing his conclusion on building a golf course and resort hotel similar to that in ocean view. As deciphered in the former paragraph, the economy of a city depends on many factors and perhaps building a resort and golf course might also contribute for some part of it. However, there is no clear evidence on how golf course and resort in Ocean view contributed for the economy, or how much of a profit did come from resort and golf course. Did actually people visit Ocean view to play golf? Answers to these questions can help mayor to scrutinize his thought and gain clearer picture. Thus, the argument is completely based on assumptions and without provident evidence it cannot be thoroughly evaluated.
While the mayor’s intention to increase the economy is auspicious, it lacks the fundamentals and supporting information, lacks several factors and is insufficiently supported. Therefore, in order to evaluate his argument, the mayor needs to provide additional evidence that can back his proposition.
Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 593, Rule ID: ECONOMICAL_ECONOMIC[1]
Message: Did you mean 'economic' (=connected with economy)?
Suggestion: economic
... on the factors that contribute for the economical growth between Ocean View and Hopewell....
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 238, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...o evaluate his argument, the mayor needs to provide additional evidence that can ...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, if, may, so, therefore, thus, well, while, as to, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 11.1786427146 233% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 55.5748502994 104% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2567.0 2260.96107784 114% => OK
No of words: 493.0 441.139720559 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20689655172 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71206996034 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85638711885 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 204.123752495 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.436105476673 0.468620217663 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 803.7 705.55239521 114% => OK
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: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => 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: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.2036986723 57.8364921388 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.681818182 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4090909091 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.54545454545 5.70786347227 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 8.20758483034 195% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => 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: 0.354975766244 0.218282227539 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.108886402347 0.0743258471296 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.119352626032 0.0701772020484 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.173264540354 0.128457276422 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.142771167728 0.0628817314937 227% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 112.0 98.500998004 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 593, Rule ID: ECONOMICAL_ECONOMIC[1]
Message: Did you mean 'economic' (=connected with economy)?
Suggestion: economic
... on the factors that contribute for the economical growth between Ocean View and Hopewell....
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 238, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...o evaluate his argument, the mayor needs to provide additional evidence that can ...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, however, if, may, so, therefore, thus, well, while, as to, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 11.1786427146 233% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 26.0 28.8173652695 90% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 55.5748502994 104% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2567.0 2260.96107784 114% => OK
No of words: 493.0 441.139720559 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20689655172 5.12650576532 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71206996034 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.85638711885 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 204.123752495 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.436105476673 0.468620217663 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 803.7 705.55239521 114% => OK
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: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => 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: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.2036986723 57.8364921388 95% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.681818182 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4090909091 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.54545454545 5.70786347227 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 8.20758483034 195% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => 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: 0.354975766244 0.218282227539 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.108886402347 0.0743258471296 146% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.119352626032 0.0701772020484 170% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.173264540354 0.128457276422 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.142771167728 0.0628817314937 227% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 112.0 98.500998004 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => 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.