"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."
The author of the argument claims that the city prohibits skateboarding in Central Plaza to restore business as it used to be in Central Plaza. To support his claim, the author says that the Central Plaza store owners believe that the decrease in their business is due to the number of skateboard users in the plaza. The argument further points out that there has been a dramatic increase in the amount of litter and vandalism throughout the plaza.
To determine the validity of the argument, the author did not provide any evidence in the support of his claim like why the popularity of the skateboarding has been increasing and he also didn't explain how the popularity of the skateboard impact the central plaza shoppers. There might have several other reasons why the number of shoppers in Central Plaza has been decreasing. He could have considered the other factor in his argument that affects the number of shoppers in the Central plaza.
Moving ahead, the author made his claim just because the store owner at the Central Plaza believes that the decrease in their business is due to the number of skateboard users in the plaza. His didn't provide any information or evidence that supports the believe of the store holder, like by what percentage the skateboard user has increased, why the skateboard user has increased, what made them to buy it and the reason for the increase in the number of skateboard users might not have any effect on decreasing the business.
Further, the author passes a statement that there has also been a dramatic increase in the amount of litter and vandalism throughout the plaza without any data or information that proves its claim and he then concluded the argument based on the reason without any evidence in support of his claim.
In sum, the author's argument is based on unconfirmed and unsubstantiated assumptions. To make the argument flawless we need more data and information about the point mention above and need to outline the real reason why the number of shoppers in Central Plaza has been steadily decreasing and the popularity of skateboarding has increased dramatically.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 11 15
No. of Words: 360 350
No. of Characters: 1744 1500
No. of Different Words: 135 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.356 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.844 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.644 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 122 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 94 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 67 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 36 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 32.727 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 14.461 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.182 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.501 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.727 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.299 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 166, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... in Central Plaza. To support his claim, the author says that the Central Plaza s...
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Line 3, column 189, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...oarding has been increasing and he also didnt explain how the popularity of the skate...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 195, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: didn't
...r of skateboard users in the plaza. His didnt provide any information or evidence tha...
^^^^^
Line 5, column 251, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...y information or evidence that supports the believe of the store holder, like by what perce...
^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 255, Rule ID: BELIEVE_BELIEF[1]
Message: Did you mean 'belief' (noun) instead of believe (verb)?
Suggestion: belief
...formation or evidence that supports the believe of the store holder, like by what perce...
^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 13, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...in support of his claim. In sum, the authors argument is based on unconfirmed and un...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, so, then
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 19.6327345309 46% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1778.0 2260.96107784 79% => OK
No of words: 358.0 441.139720559 81% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.96648044693 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.34981470047 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68234974529 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 134.0 204.123752495 66% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.374301675978 0.468620217663 80% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 558.0 705.55239521 79% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 19.7664670659 56% => 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: 32.0 22.8473053892 140% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 82.7381611216 57.8364921388 143% => OK
Chars per sentence: 161.636363636 119.503703932 135% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.5454545455 23.324526521 140% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.27272727273 5.70786347227 22% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.424587760551 0.218282227539 195% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.210543348602 0.0743258471296 283% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.13470612124 0.0701772020484 192% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.264716767075 0.128457276422 206% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.119959888449 0.0628817314937 191% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.3 14.3799401198 127% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.0 48.3550499002 81% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 12.197005988 130% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.14 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.0 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 98.500998004 64% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 11.1389221557 133% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.9071856287 134% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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