The letter to the editor of Parson City's local newspaper states that the revenues spent on schools comes from taxes which are paid by the residents. Despite the fact that the number of residents in Parson City and Blue City are nearly equal, the residents in the former city pay twice the tax amount in comparison to the residents in the latter city. This leads to the conclusion that Parson City residents value good education in public schools whereas the residents of Blue City. A careful scrutiny of the argument sheds light on a few flaws in the argument.
Citing the overall tax revenues collected by the government, the argument doesn't mention how many residents attend school in both the cities. For instance, the reason behind the high taxes paid in Parson City could be attributed to a higher proportion of the population attending public schools. Probably, the number of students in Blue City is negligible which could explain the reason why these residents pay lesser taxes compared to Parson City residents. To strengthen the argument, the argument would need to provide a recent population census report which could help one evaluate what percentage of the population attend schools.
Secondary, the economic conditions of a city play an important role in determining the taxes paid by the residents of a city. The financial status of the residents, the cost of living, housing costs could be helpful evidences to explain the high taxes charged in Parson City. If the cost of living is substantially high in Parson City, this could explain the discrepancy as to why people in Parson City pay higher taxes. Do the people in Parson City pay the same amount of taxes as Blue City in other fields like housing? If every tax report indicates that Parson City residents spend more on taxes compared to the Blue City residents, then this undermines the conclusion that they value good education because they pay high taxes.
Thirdly, the argument concludes that Parson City residents place a higher value on providing good education in public schools because they pay a greater amount of tax revenues. It is preposterous to come to this conclusion without providing solid evidence. The argument could state facts like the comparison between the education provided in Parson City and Blue City. The quality of education in Blue City might be superior to the quality of teaching in Parson City. Additionally, statistics like number of graduates and students from Blue City who have surpassed students from Parson City academically would cast doubt on the argument.
Thus, evidences like why the taxes paid by the residents differ by a huge amount, the number of students in both the cities, the importance of education in both the cities would help one to evaluate the argument effectively. As of now, the argument is rife with flaws and a few evidences cited in the argument are elusive and untraceable.
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- not exactly. look, it is just for 'recently':
Parson City has recently spent almost twice as much per year as Blue City has...
//maybe in other days, Blue city spend less; or it is for maintenance purpose recently....
argument 3 -- OK
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 488 350
No. of Characters: 2384 1500
No. of Different Words: 181 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.7 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.885 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.537 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 176 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 119 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 92 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 62 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 24.4 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.583 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.3 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.424 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.598 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.18 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 92, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'schools'' or 'school's'?
Suggestion: schools'; school's
...paper states that the revenues spent on schools comes from taxes which are paid by the ...
^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 224, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...f residents in Parson City and Blue City are nearly equal, the residents in the f...
^^
Line 3, column 75, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: doesn't
...llected by the government, the argument doesnt mention how many residents attend schoo...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, second, so, then, third, thirdly, thus, whereas, as to, for instance
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.6327345309 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 28.8173652695 52% => OK
Preposition: 78.0 55.5748502994 140% => OK
Nominalization: 26.0 16.3942115768 159% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2435.0 2260.96107784 108% => OK
No of words: 487.0 441.139720559 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.0 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69766713281 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60369124038 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.386036960986 0.468620217663 82% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 771.3 705.55239521 109% => 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: 16.0 8.76447105788 183% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.2209833296 57.8364921388 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.75 119.503703932 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.35 23.324526521 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.85 5.70786347227 67% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.235217274785 0.218282227539 108% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0969805368094 0.0743258471296 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0621968060841 0.0701772020484 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.159993012938 0.128457276422 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0482287502593 0.0628817314937 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.3799401198 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.84 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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.