In a letter to west
In a letter to the editor for the West Lansburg news, the author has stated that the proposal for an access road at the edge of the West Lanburg wetlands has been rejected by the council citing concerns that the road may impact the ecosystem and result in further decrease in population of tufted groundhogs that once numbered in the millions. However, the council's conclusions are based on some assumptions that would require clarification before the decision can be enforced.
To begin with, the population of the tufted groundhog is based on historical 'ancient' data. The reliability of this data may be questioned and more details would be required for establishing it as a reliable source. For example, the studies may have been carried out by extrapolating data from a small sample size. There could have been the lack of computing power for building reliable computer models to estimate the population which may result in a very inaccurate number.This argument, if true, would severely weaken the case of the council.
Also, a new estimation study should be carried out to determine the current population of the tufted groundhog before suggesting a complete prohibition on building and development. It is possible that previous building in the area did not affect the population of the groundhogs at all.
Further, the argument stands on the assumption that the groundhog population will behave in a similar way to the sea otter population in eastern carpentria. however, the two species may have very different responses to development in their area and additional studies would be required to determine the same. If the development does not affect the groundhogs habitats significantly, it may be argued that the access to the area may allow better studied on the wildlife , thus weakening the argument this is based on.
Lastly, the development of the road would be on the edge of the wetlands. Since only the edges are being disturbed, majority of the ecosystem may not even notice the changes happening at the edge of the biosphere they live in. if this is true, the councils's argument would not hold water.
In conclusion, the decision to allow the development of the access road needs to be studied further, possibly in the form of extensive research and experimentation and the pros and cons sufficiently weighed for the viability of such a project could be considered.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 396 350
No. of Characters: 1954 1500
No. of Different Words: 191 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.461 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.934 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.81 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 142 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 112 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 87 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 53 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 30.462 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.205 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.923 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.384 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.702 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.1 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 145, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ess road at the edge of the West Lanburg wetlands has been rejected by the counci...
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Line 3, column 475, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: This
... may result in a very inaccurate number.This argument, if true, would severely weake...
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Line 7, column 90, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a similar way" with adverb for "similar"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...at the groundhog population will behave in a similar way to the sea otter population in eastern ...
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Line 7, column 158, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: However
...otter population in eastern carpentria. however, the two species may have very differen...
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Line 7, column 469, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...may allow better studied on the wildlife , thus weakening the argument this is bas...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, lastly, may, so, thus, for example, in conclusion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 19.0 19.6327345309 97% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 16.0 28.8173652695 56% => OK
Preposition: 56.0 55.5748502994 101% => OK
Nominalization: 21.0 16.3942115768 128% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2004.0 2260.96107784 89% => OK
No of words: 395.0 441.139720559 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.07341772152 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.45809453852 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.87709501883 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 191.0 204.123752495 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.483544303797 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 625.5 705.55239521 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 26.0 22.8473053892 114% => OK
Sentence length SD: 74.5184242691 57.8364921388 129% => OK
Chars per sentence: 133.6 119.503703932 112% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.3333333333 23.324526521 113% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.53333333333 5.70786347227 97% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0560734963664 0.218282227539 26% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0160038628724 0.0743258471296 22% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0598809717333 0.0701772020484 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0337571933575 0.128457276422 26% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0754833790769 0.0628817314937 120% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 14.3799401198 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.3550499002 93% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.42 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.04 8.32208582834 109% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 98.500998004 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.1389221557 111% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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