"The population on Balmer Island doubles during the summer months. During the summer, then, the town council of Balmer Island should decrease the maximum number of moped rentals allowed at each of the island's six moped and bicycle rental companies from 50 per day to 30 per day. This will significantly reduce the number of summertime accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians. The neighboring island of Torseau actually saw a 50 percent reduction in moped accidents last year when Thoreau's town council enforced similar limits on moped rentals. To help reduce moped accidents, therefore, we should also enforce these limitations during the summer months."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be addressed in order to decide whether the conclusion and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to the questions would help to evaluate the conclusion.
The author of the argument purportedly highlights that the number of the rental moped on the Island should be diminished during summer vacation in order to decline summertime accidents. However, the premises upon which he puts his claim are fallacious. For the support of which some critical yet ignored question need to be addressed.
The first assumption that lacks some semblance of truth and can be overtly impugned is the fact that the council of the Island should reduce the number of moped and bicycles from 50 per day to 30. However, it does not lend credence to the argument since a question that might arise is whether decrease the number of the moped to 30 per day could contribute greatly to the decline of accidents. One point that should be considered is that the author does not mention clearly the number of accidents involving moped and bicycles during summertime. What if the number of accidents remains constant after reduction? Indeed, there is no statistic or information to show that to the extent moped play a role in an accident. It is also important to say that maybe the Island gain its budget from taxes imposed on the moped, so, by reducing the number of the moped, the Island may face a huge problem.
The author also points out that this limitation will reduce the number of accidents dramatically involving moped and pedestrians. Although it might seem tenable at a face, it has some defects since you can always ask this question if mopeds are the major cause of accidents. One of the main, if not the only, problem with the premise is that the author just introduced moped as a main source of accidents. In fact, there is a possibility that pedestrians also play a crucial role in accidents owing to the fact that the Island is overcrowded during summertime. Alongside that, creating a nice route for moped might be the best decision in order to decrease the number of accidents involving pedestrians and moped.
Putting the two assumptions above aside, there is still room for doubt. As set forth by the author the Neighboring Island enforce such restrictions and the number of accidents reduced by 50 percent. Nevertheless, the rationale behind the premise could be challenged owing to an unsettled question if the population in neighboring Island is the same as Balmer Island during summer. One point that should not go unnoticed is that the author does not show any information about the number of population in Second Island. Maybe a few people visit this Island during summertime. So, in this case, we will not witness a great number of accidents and it is crystal clear that the number of accidents goes down significantly.
Having scrutinized all the premises, a logical conclusion that can be drawn is that there are a number of questions having been ignored by the author while the answer of which could add to the logic of each premise.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- not exactly
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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: 21 15
No. of Words: 495 350
No. of Characters: 2345 1500
No. of Different Words: 216 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.717 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.737 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.578 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 167 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 109 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 79 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 57 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.571 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.605 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.667 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.366 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.539 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.109 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 165, Rule ID: SUMMER_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'summer'.
Suggestion: summer
...ing summer vacation in order to decline summertime accidents. However, the premises upon w...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 535, Rule ID: SUMMER_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'summer'.
Suggestion: summer
...nts involving moped and bicycles during summertime. What if the number of accidents remain...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 550, Rule ID: SUMMER_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'summer'.
Suggestion: summer
...t that the Island is overcrowded during summertime. Alongside that, creating a nice route ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 123, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[8]
Message: The proper name in singular (Island) must be used with a third-person verb: 'enforces'.
Suggestion: enforces
...th by the author the Neighboring Island enforce such restrictions and the number of acc...
^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 563, Rule ID: SUMMER_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'summer'.
Suggestion: summer
...e a few people visit this Island during summertime. So, in this case, we will not witness ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, second, so, still, while, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 13.6137724551 154% => OK
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 55.5748502994 124% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2400.0 2260.96107784 106% => OK
No of words: 495.0 441.139720559 112% => OK
Chars per words: 4.84848484848 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.71684168287 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65205362498 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 222.0 204.123752495 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.448484848485 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 744.3 705.55239521 105% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.3958126189 57.8364921388 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.285714286 119.503703932 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5714285714 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.95238095238 5.70786347227 69% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 6.88822355289 203% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.292936425624 0.218282227539 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0882915182323 0.0743258471296 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0761060830897 0.0701772020484 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.160126963148 0.128457276422 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0767452156932 0.0628817314937 122% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.15 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 98.500998004 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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