Seven years ago, homeowners in nearby Brookville community adopted a set of restrictions on how the community's yards should be landscaped and what colors the exteriors of homes should be painted. Since then, average property values have tripled in Brookville. In order to raise property values in Deerhaven Acres, we should adopt our own set of restrictions on landscaping and housepainting.
In this letter, a committee of Deerhaven Acres homeowners recommends that in order to enhance Deerhaven property values homeowners should follow certain restrictions concerning their homes' exterior appearance. To support this recommendation the committee points out that in the seven years since Brookville adopted similar restrictions property values there have risen. This argument rests on a series of unsubstantiated assumptions, and is therefore unpersuasive as it stands.
A threshold assumption upon which the recommendation relies is that Brookville homeowners implemented Brookville's restrictions in the first place. The letter fails to substantiate this crucial assumption. If these restrictions were not implemented, then any change in Brookville's property values cannot be attributed to them. Accordingly, the committee cannot draw any firm conclusion about what effect similar restrictions would have on Deerhaven property values.
Even assuming that Brookville homeowners implemented these restrictions, the committee relies on the additional assumption that this course of action was responsible for the increase in Brookville property values. However, it is entirely possible that one or more other factors were instead responsible for the increase, especially since a considerable period of time has passed since Brookville adopted its restrictions. Property values are a function of supply and demand. Perhaps the demand for housing in the area has increased due to an influx of major employers. Or, perhaps the supply of housing has decreased. Either scenario would provide an alternative explanation for the increase in property values.
Even assuming that Brookville's rising property values are attributable to the implementation of these restrictions, the committee fails to consider possible differences between Brookville and Deerhaven that might help to bring about a different result for Deerhaven. For instance, potential Deerhaven homebuyers might be less interested in a home's exterior appearance than Brookville homebuyers. For that matter, perhaps Deerhaven homebuyers would find consistent exterior appearance a distasteful feature‐in which case adopting these restrictions might actually tend to decrease Deerhaven property values. Without accounting for these and other possible dissimilarities, the committee cannot assume that what resulted in rising property values in Brookville would bring about the same result in Deerhaven.
In conclusion, to persuade me that Deerhaven should adopt the proposed restrictions the committee must supply clear evidence that the implementation of Brookville's restrictions, and not some other factor, was responsible for the rise in Brookville's property values. The committee must also provide evidence that other factors affecting home prices in the two areas are otherwise essentially the same.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 324, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'restrictions'' or 'restriction's'?
Suggestion: restrictions'; restriction's
... years since Brookville adopted similar restrictions property values there have risen. This ...
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Line 5, column 354, Rule ID: PERIOD_OF_TIME[1]
Message: Use simply 'period'.
Suggestion: period
...crease, especially since a considerable period of time has passed since Brookville adopted its...
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Line 7, column 341, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[1]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'a home' or simply 'homes'?
Suggestion: a home; homes
... homebuyers might be less interested in a homes exterior appearance than Brookville hom...
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Discourse Markers used:
['accordingly', 'actually', 'also', 'but', 'first', 'however', 'if', 'so', 'then', 'therefore', 'for instance', 'in conclusion', 'in the first place']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.304054054054 0.25644967241 119% => OK
Verbs: 0.135135135135 0.15541462614 87% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0833333333333 0.0836205057962 100% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0518018018018 0.0520304965353 100% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0135135135135 0.0272364105082 50% => OK
Prepositions: 0.130630630631 0.125424944231 104% => OK
Participles: 0.0337837837838 0.0416121511921 81% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.24259542335 2.79052419416 116% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0225225225225 0.026700313972 84% => OK
Particles: 0.0045045045045 0.001811407834 249% => OK
Determiners: 0.11036036036 0.113004496875 98% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0315315315315 0.0255425247493 123% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0112612612613 0.0127820249294 88% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2878.0 2731.13054187 105% => OK
No of words: 407.0 446.07635468 91% => OK
Chars per words: 7.07125307125 6.12365571057 115% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.49157444576 4.57801047555 98% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.496314496314 0.378187486979 131% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.405405405405 0.287650121315 141% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.331695331695 0.208842608468 159% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.2457002457 0.135150697306 182% => Too many words length more than 8 chars.
Word Length SD: 3.24259542335 2.79052419416 116% => OK
Unique words: 192.0 207.018472906 93% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.471744471744 0.469332199767 101% => OK
Word variations: 51.0021010914 52.1807786196 98% => OK
How many sentences: 19.0 20.039408867 95% => OK
Sentence length: 21.4210526316 23.2022227129 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 65.8745975614 57.7814097925 114% => OK
Chars per sentence: 151.473684211 141.986410481 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.4210526316 23.2022227129 92% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.684210526316 0.724660767414 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.14285714286 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 3.58251231527 84% => OK
Readability: 61.9615931721 51.9672348444 119% => OK
Elegance: 2.33707865169 1.8405768891 127% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.378886596956 0.441005458295 86% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.148315744869 0.135418324435 110% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0958205861903 0.0829849096947 115% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.561718780744 0.58762219726 96% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.140743014495 0.147661913831 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.157024997812 0.193483328276 81% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0614908000002 0.0970749176394 63% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.365785894873 0.42659136922 86% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0185601598789 0.0774707102158 24% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.263556347845 0.312017818177 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0421164612711 0.0698173142475 60% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.33743842365 168% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.87684729064 29% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.82512315271 62% => OK
Positive topic words: 12.0 6.46551724138 186% => OK
Negative topic words: 1.0 5.36822660099 19% => More negative topic words wanted.
Neutral topic words: 2.0 2.82389162562 71% => OK
Total topic words: 15.0 14.657635468 102% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 83.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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