"Over the past two years, the number of shoppers in Central Plaza has been steadily decreasing while the popularity of skateboarding has increased dramatically. Many Central Plaza store owners believe that the decrease in their business is due to the number of skateboard users in the plaza. There has also been a dramatic increase in the amount of litter and vandalism throughout the plaza. Thus, we recommend that the city prohibit skateboarding in Central Plaza. If skateboarding is prohibited here, we predict that business in Central Plaza will return to its previously high levels."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The following argument has a conclusion that is made without taking some questions into consideration. Primarily, the argument is mainly focusing on skateboarders, rendering its main conclusion that prohibiting skateboarders in central plaza would return to its previously high levels, not perfectly backed up.
The argument fails to provide that the reason for dramatic surge in skateboarding. It could be also possible that since people stopped coming to the plaza that's why skateboarders came because there is freer space as people are less. The first question to consider is that why skateboarders started coming to plaza at the first place. Is it because of less security at the plaza or the space started to free up because there is a decrease in the buyers in plaza.
Another question that should be answered before coming to such conclusion is that, is there any other reason why people stopped coming to plaza other than skateboarding. Maybe, the prices of the products in the plaza stores have been increased recently and people are going to malls rather than coming to plaza as they are getting the same products for lower price. This point also weighs in to determining the conclusion of this passage.
The reason for littering and vandalism is also not taken into account in the argument. The question to raise is why there is surge in littering and vandalism in plaza at the first place. This could again go back to the point of lesser security maybe, or sneaking into the plaza is easier and vandals found a way to sneak into the plaza and destroying it.
So, answering the questions explained above should come to a place that the prohibition skateboarders would solve everything or not. If skateboarders are the one who are littering and destroying the place and there is no surge in the prices of the products that are sold in the plaza. Finally, the security also takes care of these vandals and littering fine. If all of these problems are solved in this way then the conclusion for this argument would result positively as expected.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 348 350
No. of Characters: 1679 1500
No. of Different Words: 151 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.319 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.825 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.664 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 109 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 78 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 61 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 37 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.75 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.25 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.562 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.347 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.538 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.082 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 156, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: that's
...ince people stopped coming to the plaza thats why skateboarders came because there is...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, if, may, so, then, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 55.5748502994 86% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1718.0 2260.96107784 76% => OK
No of words: 348.0 441.139720559 79% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.9367816092 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.31911543099 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.71535151231 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 204.123752495 76% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.445402298851 0.468620217663 95% => OK
syllable_count: 536.4 705.55239521 76% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.2126725049 57.8364921388 71% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.375 119.503703932 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.75 23.324526521 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.375 5.70786347227 59% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => 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: 0.144902415592 0.218282227539 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0485823936137 0.0743258471296 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0469294157959 0.0701772020484 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0834673154213 0.128457276422 65% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0277559657598 0.0628817314937 44% => 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: 12.7 14.3799401198 88% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.37 12.5979740519 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.08 8.32208582834 85% => OK
difficult_words: 53.0 98.500998004 54% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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