“In order to relieve Briggsville’s notorious traffic congestion, Mayor Harrison Peter 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 Peter 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 arguement states that a multi-million-dollar subway system running for twenty-four hours is will the answer to the complains about traffic congestion in Briggsvile. However the argument is rifed with doubts including, who will pay for the subway system and how many people have complained about inconsistent buses, hence failing to make a cogent case about building a subway system that will increase productivity of the people and hence economy of Briggsvile.
Given that the project will cost an enormous sum of money, the first question that needs to be answered is whether the people are ready to pay for the subway system. Building this would mean increase in taxes leading to increased prices that would causes inconvinience to the people. Apart from the cost to build it, there will be maintenance costs like electricity for running the trains all day, salary of workers that needs to be fulfilled. Since we are unaware of the economic prosperity of the town in the argument, if it is a modest one, there arises a doubt whether the town can become debt-free from the loan it would be taking. A poor or even a modest town wouldn't have millions of dollars lying around and needs to take a big loan.
Instead of spending so much money on this project, the Mayor can build better roads and ply more buses. Such a solution will not cost a million dollars and give the people a safe and reliable riding experience.
The Mayor talks about complaints in the memorandum from residents about inconsistent buses and unsafe riding experience. We don't know how many people have raised concerns about the same. It might be possible that there were few people who complained regularly or raised a complaint because of a small unfavourable incident they had faced once. Based on a few complaints, it is unjustificable to generalize it and make it a reason to spend million dollars building a subway system. More indepth analysis of the complains is needed to know how many people have complained and how inconvinient were the situations that a subway system needs to be constructed.
The impact put forth for the subway system is an increase in productivity and hence growth in economy. However, there is no quantitative argument as to how much increase will be there. Obviously there will be an increase becasue people will reach their destinations quickly without the hassles of stuck in traffic hence starting their work in a productive mood, however there are other essential factors that contribute to the prouctivity of an individual like his mental situation, personal family problems, workplace tension and others.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
the arguments are on the wrong track.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2
No. of Sentences: 17 15
No. of Words: 440 350
No. of Characters: 2146 1500
No. of Different Words: 210 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.58 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.877 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.744 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 155 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 104 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 73 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 47 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.882 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.889 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.471 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.323 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.515 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.103 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 170, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: However,
...about traffic congestion in Briggsvile. However the argument is rifed with doubts inclu...
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Line 3, column 249, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[2]
Message: The verb 'would' requires the base form of the verb: 'cause'
Suggestion: cause
... leading to increased prices that would causes inconvinience to the people. Apart from...
^^^^^^
Line 3, column 668, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: wouldn't
...be taking. A poor or even a modest town wouldnt have millions of dollars lying around a...
^^^^^^^
Line 6, column 125, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
... buses and unsafe riding experience. We dont know how many people have raised concer...
^^^^
Line 6, column 440, Rule ID: NODT_DOZEN[1]
Message: Use simply: 'a million'.
Suggestion: a million
...ralize it and make it a reason to spend million dollars building a subway system. More ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, hence, however, if, may, so, apart from, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2190.0 2260.96107784 97% => OK
No of words: 438.0 441.139720559 99% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57476223824 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.79250158363 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 204.123752495 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.490867579909 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 680.4 705.55239521 96% => 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: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 71.9047813282 57.8364921388 124% => OK
Chars per sentence: 128.823529412 119.503703932 108% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.7647058824 23.324526521 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.41176470588 5.70786347227 60% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.195967680283 0.218282227539 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0715218682115 0.0743258471296 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0592807464963 0.0701772020484 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.116972775942 0.128457276422 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0505338640725 0.0628817314937 80% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.55 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 102.0 98.500998004 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => 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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