"Last October the city of Belleville installed high-intensity lighting in its central business district, and vandalism there declined within a month. The city of Amburg has recently begun police patrols on bicycles in its business district, but the rate of vandalism there remains constant. We should install high-intensity lighting throughout Amburg, then, because doing so is a more effective way to combat crime. By reducing crime in this way, we can revitalize the declining neighborhoods in our city."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The author of the argument purportedly highlights that high-intensity lighting should be installed in districts in order to diminish the rate of crimes. However, the premises upon which he puts his claim are fallacious. For the support of which more critical, yet ignored question need to be addressed.
The first assumption that lacks some semblance of truth and can be overtly impugned is that the city of Belleville installed high-intensity light during last October and vandalism decline drastically. However, it does not lend credence to the argument since a question that might arise is whether vandalism and crime decrease during other months. One point that should be considered is that the author just points out the information of a month. Indeed, it could not be reliable and accurate owing to the fact that the information is restricted and there is a wide range of data through a whole year to investigate the effectiveness of high-intensity lighting. It is also important to say that, maybe the city was not overcrowded during the October, so, in this situation, the crime rate will reduce greatly.
Furthermore, the author asserts that Amburg City has controlled its district by police patrol bicycles and crime or vandalism remain unchanged. Although it might seem tenable at a face, it has some defects since you can always ask this question if high-intensity lighting could diminish the rate of crime In Amburg City. One of the main, if not the only, problem with the premise is that we should take different conditions of two cities like location, population, districts and so forth, into consideration. Maybe there is only two or three district in the city or maybe police officers by bicycles are not dexterous and adept enough to handle these situations successfully.
Putting the two assumptions aside, there is still room for doubt. As set forth by the author by installing high-intensity lighting the city could survive the reduction of neighborhoods. Nevertheless, the rationale behind this premise could be challenged owing to an unsettled question if high-intensity lighting will be able to revitalize the neighborhood. One point that should not go unnoticed is that the author does not show accurately whether inhabitants leave the city for the crime rate or not. Indeed, maybe they migrate to other places because of better facilities and living condition. Or perhaps leave the city because of greater opportunities, who knows?
Having scrutinized all the premises, a logical conclusion that can be drawn is that there are a number of questions having been ignored by the author while the answer of which could add to the logic of each premise.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- not exactly. we may say: maybe there are other reasons causing the the rate of vandalism there constant.
the argument 2 is good for this:
'We should install high-intensity lighting throughout Amburg, then, because doing so is a more effective way to combat crime. '
argument 3 -- OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 436 350
No. of Characters: 2196 1500
No. of Different Words: 220 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.57 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.037 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.863 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 152 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 115 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 87 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 59 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.947 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.256 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.526 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.308 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.525 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.079 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 67, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “As” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...s aside, there is still room for doubt. As set forth by the author by installing h...
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Line 9, column 217, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...could add to the logic of each premise.
^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, however, if, may, nevertheless, so, still, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 55.5748502994 92% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2253.0 2260.96107784 100% => OK
No of words: 436.0 441.139720559 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.16743119266 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56953094068 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95379631588 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 222.0 204.123752495 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.509174311927 0.468620217663 109% => OK
syllable_count: 699.3 705.55239521 99% => 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: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.0135022561 57.8364921388 83% => OK
Chars per sentence: 118.578947368 119.503703932 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.9473684211 23.324526521 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.89473684211 5.70786347227 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => OK
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: 0.274822738347 0.218282227539 126% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0822609675047 0.0743258471296 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0884649157933 0.0701772020484 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138872830118 0.128457276422 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0927180380261 0.0628817314937 147% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 14.3799401198 100% => 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: 13.0 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.28 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 98.500998004 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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.