Several charitable organizations in Pleasantville provide opportunities for teenagers to engage in community service. These organizations have a great need for volunteers, but in recent years, the number of teenage volunteers has significantly declined.
The Pleasantville School Board should take measures to increase the number of volunteers. Teachers, parents, and other community members agree that it is important for young people to learn the value of community service. Requiring high school students to engage in community service would provide much-needed assistance to worthy local charities and would also help young people understand the importance of giving back to their community. For this reason, the Pleasantville School Board should institute a program requiring students of Pleasantville High School to complete 40 hours of community service prior to graduation.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on the assumptions and what the implications are if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
As the technology is advancing, the Internet has given the opportunity to convey their thoughts and opinions on anything through social media and blogs. The feature of viewing others' opinions and giving a reaction on them has made people more audacious about their views. The claim that the emergence of these conveniences has significantly abated the quality of political discourse in United States is true in my opninion because when these options are accessible to anyone, the standards for publishing news and political discussions are bound to fall.
Social media is used by huge portion of population and it has given the freedom to express opinions, popular or unpopular, to everyone. Since it is accessible to everyone, there is no restriction of age or education or profession. This has lead to people sharing their views in every way they can. As general public are not as much skilled as the professional journalists and editors, the quality of their written opinions is not up to the mark. Furthermore, the citizens who are less aware of the situations give their views on the basis or partial knowledge which creates a mismatch with the original condition.
Earlier, the news were available on television or the newspapers which was limited and verified. However, as there are no age or education resitrictions for the social media and blogging platforms, kids and the group of people completely unaware of the situation or the pre-story of the situation give their opinions. Some people also spread false news to incite certain group of people or just for fun. The number of the articles and posts has increased astronomically but there are no sources to verify it. This has reduced the quality of the news.
Although the technology has made it possible for news to be available to everyone and allowed everyone to express their opinions and discuss them, this has lowered the standards for covering the news and political topics. Not everyone has proper knowledge on these topics, so allowing anyone to publish their opinions will definitely lead to the decrease in quality.
Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 2 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 345 350
No. of Characters: 1715 1500
No. of Different Words: 172 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.31 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.971 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.706 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 128 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 104 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 72 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.402 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.333 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.343 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.537 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.098 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 302, Rule ID: GENERAL_XX[1]
Message: Use simply 'public'.
Suggestion: public
...g their views in every way they can. As general public are not as much skilled as the professi...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, furthermore, however, if, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 2.0 12.9520958084 15% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 11.1786427146 197% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 13.6137724551 37% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1754.0 2260.96107784 78% => OK
No of words: 345.0 441.139720559 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.08405797101 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.3097767484 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76424496012 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 204.123752495 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.515942028986 0.468620217663 110% => OK
syllable_count: 565.2 705.55239521 80% => 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: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => 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: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => 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: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 62.2734471683 57.8364921388 108% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.933333333 119.503703932 98% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.0 23.324526521 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.6 5.70786347227 46% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 8.20758483034 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
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: 0.0707077760572 0.218282227539 32% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0211169180478 0.0743258471296 28% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0271729351856 0.0701772020484 39% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0465009117007 0.128457276422 36% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0276862733423 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: 14.0 14.3799401198 97% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.48 12.5979740519 99% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.85 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 98.500998004 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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It is not exactly right on the topic in the view of e-grader. Maybe there is a wrong essay topic.
Rates: 16.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 1.0 Out of 6
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