In a study of the reading habits of Waymarsh citizens conducted by the University of Waymarsh, most respondents said that 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 habits.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
In the two studies conducted on the Waymarsh citizens concluded that respondents of the first study misrepresented their reading habits. This conclusion is based on the assumption that as first study stated that most of the respondents are preferring classics but the most checked book in the public libraries is mystery novels. However, as more light is shed on the issue and more detailed facts are concerned, lack of answers through the argument leads me to question its validity.
First of all, how accurate are both the studies? It can be possible that first study is mostly for the people who were interested in the classics which lead to the common answer as classic literacy. IF the above mentioned assumption is true, then the argument is weakened.
Secondly, how is checking a book resembles preference on that book? It can be possible that just because the cover of the book is attractive, people tend to check that book and read the first page of the book. They might found that interesting and read that novel. If the above mentioned assumption is merit, then the argument does not hold water.
Finally, does having a preference means tendency to read the same genre of the book. Maybe a new book is released and eventually became a hit so that people are after it. Perhaps, the ratings were so good that it became a must read and book lovers are attracted to buy it. If the above mentioned assumption is true, then the argument cannot be strengthened.
To conclude, the argument, as stands as of now, is considerably flawed. However, if more evidence and answers to the above mentioned questions are offered, then argument can be possibly evaluated.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ??? out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 285 350
No. of Characters: 1344 1500
No. of Different Words: 143 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.109 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.716 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.574 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 87 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 70 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 54 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 29 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.812 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.073 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.875 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.335 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.573 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.069 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 237, Rule ID: PROGRESSIVE_VERBS[1]
Message: This verb is normally not used in the progressive form. Try a simple form instead.
...udy stated that most of the respondents are preferring classics but the most checked book in t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.6327345309 122% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.9520958084 46% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 28.8173652695 73% => OK
Preposition: 28.0 55.5748502994 50% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 14.0 16.3942115768 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1402.0 2260.96107784 62% => OK
No of words: 285.0 441.139720559 65% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.91929824561 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10876417139 4.56307096286 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65516911952 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 204.123752495 70% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.498245614035 0.468620217663 106% => OK
syllable_count: 426.6 705.55239521 60% => 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: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
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: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.97733733 57.8364921388 69% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.625 119.503703932 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8125 23.324526521 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.9375 5.70786347227 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.217700571986 0.218282227539 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0749971872387 0.0743258471296 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0977173170808 0.0701772020484 139% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.118791492081 0.128457276422 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0960513402332 0.0628817314937 153% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.6 14.3799401198 74% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 48.3550499002 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.197005988 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.96 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.64 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 57.0 98.500998004 58% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
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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