In surveys Mason City residents rank water sports (swimming, boating and fishing) among their favorite recreational activities. The Mason River flowing through the city is rarely used for these pursuits, however, and the city park department devotes little of its budget to maintaining riverside recreational facilities. For years there have been complaints from residents about the quality of the river's water and the river's smell. In response, the state has recently announced plans to clean up Mason River. Use of the river for water sports is therefore sure to increase. The city government should for that reason devote more money in this year's budget to riverside recreational facilities.
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.
The author’s argument that the Mason City’s government should increase the funding to riverside recreational facilities based on an assumption of river use increase is not entirely logically compelling, because it is not strong enough requiring more information and weighting.
The arguments that the use of Mason River for water sports will surely increase based simply on what is suggested by the author about the survey can not effectively endorse this argument. It is unknown if the survey, that rank water sport among the favorite recreational activities of residents, was made in reliable circumstances and aspects. For example, if the survey was made only with a small sample of residents or if the type of questions not include other enjoyable activities leading the preference for water sports just for lack of other options.
The author implies that the complaints from residents about the river’s smell and water are related with the lack of use of the river for swimming, boating and fishing, not related with recreational facilities conditions of use. A concrete connection between the complaints and the lack of river use was not made. It is not explained how many residents complained and if they really did a formal complaint in the responsible department. If only ten residents has been complained for the last ten years, it would be almost irrelevant and due to punctual problems that probably have already been solved. Furthermore, the author suggests that the river cleanup will result in an increase of the river usage. Nevertheless, the smell of the river can be related with natural results from mineral deposits, surrounding rocks or decomposition of aquatic vegetation.
Consequently, if the assumptions proved unwarranted a lot of money will be invest in the recreational facilities without increase the riverside usage. Maintaining the nature and public spaces preserved is an obligation of the governments, however, the author’s arguments are not completely sound to persuade the Manson’s government to invest more in recreational facilities. Since the supporting sentences are not strong and well related enough.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 337 350
No. of Characters: 1776 1500
No. of Different Words: 169 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.285 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.27 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.904 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 135 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 107 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 81 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 60 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.923 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.827 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.692 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.362 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.584 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.105 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
consequently, furthermore, however, if, nevertheless, really, so, well, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 28.8173652695 42% => OK
Preposition: 39.0 55.5748502994 70% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1841.0 2260.96107784 81% => OK
No of words: 337.0 441.139720559 76% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.46290801187 5.12650576532 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.28457229495 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.093098555 2.78398813304 111% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 204.123752495 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.504451038576 0.468620217663 108% => OK
syllable_count: 572.4 705.55239521 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.0505659076 57.8364921388 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 141.615384615 119.503703932 119% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.9230769231 23.324526521 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.38461538462 5.70786347227 112% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.232886363435 0.218282227539 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0753065627084 0.0743258471296 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0605129188329 0.0701772020484 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.129967448368 0.128457276422 101% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0667922768684 0.0628817314937 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 17.2 14.3799401198 120% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 48.3550499002 78% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.197005988 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.68 12.5979740519 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.28 8.32208582834 112% => OK
difficult_words: 94.0 98.500998004 95% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 12.3882235529 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6
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