In a study of the reading habits of Waymarsh citizens conducted by the University of Waymarsh, most respondents said they preferred literary classics as reading material. However, a second study conducted by the same researchers found that the type of book most frequently checked out of each of the public libraries in Waymarsh was the mystery novel. Therefore, it can be concluded that the respondents in the first study had misrepresented their reading preferences.
The argument represents a survey conducted by the University of Waymarsh for the reading habits of the citizens of the city. In the survey presented there are few flaws and loopholes which make the argument dubious. There are two studies shown and contradictions have been presented which are leading to a conclusion. The loopholes in the argument is about the proper description of inforamtion to make the argument credible.
Firstly, the study conducted by the researchers brought information that most of the citizens preferred literary classics as reading material. Here, the study was conducted who went to public libraries or private libraries or they were students of a university is not mentioned. Also, the preferred choice is presented and not the ones that are bought maximum by the citizens. There is a use of "most" but there a figure is not presented in the argument for the number of citizens having a predilection for literary classics.
The second study was conducted by the same set of researchers in the public libraries where citizens were found to pick mystery novels frequently. This only information was used by the researchers to conclude that in the first survey the citizens misrepresented there reading preferences. But this might be a good decision based on this little information. The reasons for picking a mystery novel is not presented at all. The time between two studies which were conducted are not brought to light in the argument. Though the researchers were the same, assumption that both the studies were conducted contiguously might not be true.
The second study was a time when a series of mystery novel got published in the market. These mystery novels might be great books and people have been waiting for such books to come into market. So, after the introduction of these brand new mystery novels that might be of a great author who is admired for his/her work for mystery novels all around the world, these books got some publicity. Also, the mystery books of authors years back can be considered as a literary classic. A literary classic is a when the book has revolutionized a form and that is being in use for that genre of books. So, a mystery novel could also be a literary classic. So, concluding that the citizen's preference's display in the earlier study is nothing but falsified is not something which one can believe, because of poor representation of information and lack of a study with more parameters to cover.
To recapitulate, the above mentioned reasons are loopholes and assumptions that are used to have a conclusion about misrepresentation of choices or preferences of citizens of Waymarsh for reading material. So, to present a generalized view for preferences more rigor display of information is needed and also the researcheres need to cover more aspects before coming to a concusion which brings a lot of questions to there conducted study.
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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: 23 15
No. of Words: 486 350
No. of Characters: 2387 1500
No. of Different Words: 200 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.695 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.912 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.878 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 165 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 135 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 94 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 66 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.13 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.909 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.522 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.303 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.522 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.088 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, second, so
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 37.0 19.6327345309 188% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 13.6137724551 140% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 55.5748502994 110% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2460.0 2260.96107784 109% => OK
No of words: 485.0 441.139720559 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07216494845 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69283662038 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96156410376 2.78398813304 106% => OK
Unique words: 202.0 204.123752495 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.416494845361 0.468620217663 89% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 778.5 705.55239521 110% => 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: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 49.9454522871 57.8364921388 86% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.956521739 119.503703932 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.0869565217 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.78260869565 5.70786347227 31% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.67664670659 171% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.306689013476 0.218282227539 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.09978906577 0.0743258471296 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.111137032382 0.0701772020484 158% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.185138895922 0.128457276422 144% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0801920285779 0.0628817314937 128% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.13 12.5979740519 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.58 8.32208582834 91% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 98.500998004 90% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.9071856287 67% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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