In order to vote in school elections in lowville, you need only be a citizen, have lived in the district for 30 days, and be over the age of 18. Concerned that the turnout at recent school elections has been quite low, with only about 20 percent of eligible voters coming to the polls, school officials have discussed changing the regulations to require that voters be registered with the board of elections, as they must be for a general or municipal election. They posit that voters who are registered are already committed to the electoral process and thus are more likely to come to the polls for school elections as well.
examine the logic of this argument by discussing what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the prediction and the argument on which it is based are reasonable.
In the passage, the author argues that process of school election must be alternated and should mimic the process of general or municipal election. This is based on the premises that registered voters in the above elections are committed to the electoral process and it is possible that they will participate also in school elections. However, on deeper analysis, it becomes apparent that certain relevant aspects have not been considered , leading to a number of mistaken assumptions and logical flaws.
First of all, the author readily assumes that the registered voters who participate in general or municipal elections will have the same willing to contribute in school elections. This is a mistaken assumption made with no much solid ground. For example, it is possible that these voters are totally indifferent to school elections and maybe they consider them a waste of time. Hence, the argument would have been much more convincing if it explicitly stated that the voters who participate in general or municipal elections are equally positive to participate also in school elections.
Furthermore, the author cites that school officials assert that registered voters in Lowille are committed to the electoral process. This is again a weak and unproven argument as it does not provide any evidence to demonstrate it. For instance, there is a possibility that the percentage of the voters who participate in municipal elections to be merely bigger of the percentage of participation in school elections. If the argument had provided evidence that the percentage of registered voters in municipal elections was significantly bigger than the percentage in school elections, then it would have been much more persuasive.
In conclusion, the school officials’ argument is unpersuasive as it stands. To bolster it, the school officials must provide more concrete evidence, perhaps by way of a reliable survey considering the actual posture of registered voters about school elections. Finally, to better evaluate the argument, it would be necessary to know more information about the percentage of registered voters who participated in general or municipal elections in order to have a solid evidence to compare with the correlative percentage of voters at school elections.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 1 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 1 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 356 350
No. of Characters: 1886 1500
No. of Different Words: 148 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.344 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.298 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.914 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 160 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 121 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 92 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 65 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.429 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.65 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.714 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.412 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.589 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.111 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
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...elevant aspects have not been considered , leading to a number of mistaken assumpt...
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...istaken assumptions and logical flaws. First of all, the author readily assumes...
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...This is a mistaken assumption made with no much solid ground. For example, it is p...
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... participate also in school elections. Furthermore, the author cites that schoo...
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... would have been much more persuasive. In conclusion, the school officials’ arg...
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...rcentage of voters at school elections.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, furthermore, hence, however, if, may, so, then, for example, for instance, in conclusion, in general, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 13.6137724551 110% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 55.5748502994 92% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1926.0 2260.96107784 85% => OK
No of words: 356.0 441.139720559 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.41011235955 5.12650576532 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34372677135 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99647364194 2.78398813304 108% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 204.123752495 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.435393258427 0.468620217663 93% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 637.2 705.55239521 90% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.8 1.59920159681 113% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 57.4838486633 57.8364921388 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.571428571 119.503703932 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.4285714286 23.324526521 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.0714285714 5.70786347227 176% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => 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: 0.195948598123 0.218282227539 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.084152132483 0.0743258471296 113% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0438834169483 0.0701772020484 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.146251532357 0.128457276422 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0171759370989 0.0628817314937 27% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.8 14.3799401198 117% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 29.18 48.3550499002 60% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.4 12.197005988 126% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.39 12.5979740519 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.47 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 98.500998004 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 12.3882235529 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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