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 following argument is flawed for numerous reasons. first, the argument is based on unwarrented assumption that the state's plan to clean up the river will be successful and second, the argument does not provides enough information to support to support the crediability of the survey, rendering it's conclusion, that if government devote more money in this year's buget to riverside recreational facilities, it will result in increase in use of river for water sports, invalid.
the argument fails to to provide enough information to support the results of the surveys that mason city residents rank water sports among their favorite recreational activities. the survey data presented lack depth of detail that would help us to evaluate the significance of the study results. how many people were surveyed? what was the margin of error how was the study conducted? if the survey represented large enough group to extrapolate the genral population? if alternatively few people were surveyed than it might be possible only few people will like water sports. The argument will be more convencing if the more information have been provided regarding the survey. Even then the survey claims that people ranked water sports on top that does not mean that they will go boating or swimming if the river was clean, it might mean they like watching water sports.
The argument leaves many other unanswered questions. even if the residents of the mason city will go water sporting if the river will be clean, the argument does not provide enough information to support the claim that investing more money in recreational facilities will result in clean river, it might be possible that the increased buget is also not enough to clean the river. Possible unintended consequences need to addressed before implementing such a plan, or the city government with find itself with surprise.
Because argument makes sevral unwarrented assumptions, it fails to make convencing case that if government devote more money in this year's buget to riverside recreational facilities, it will result in increase in use of river for the water sports.
Comments
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: 8 15
No. of Words: 344 350
No. of Characters: 1754 1500
No. of Different Words: 149 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.307 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.099 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.691 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 122 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 84 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 70 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 46 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 43 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 24.975 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.75 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.484 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.705 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.137 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 56, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: First
...rgument is flawed for numerous reasons. first, the argument is based on unwarrented a...
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Line 1, column 207, Rule ID: DOES_X_HAS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'provide'? As 'do' is already inflected, the verb cannot also be inflected.
Suggestion: provide
...ssful and second, the argument does not provides enough information to support to suppor...
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Line 1, column 207, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'provide'
Suggestion: provide
...ssful and second, the argument does not provides enough information to support to suppor...
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Line 1, column 235, Rule ID: PHRASE_REPETITION[1]
Message: This phrase is duplicated. You should probably leave only 'to support'.
Suggestion: to support
...nt does not provides enough information to support to support the crediability of the survey, renderi...
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Line 1, column 355, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...that if government devote more money in this years buget to riverside recreational f...
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Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: The
... of river for water sports, invalid. the argument fails to to provide enough inf...
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Line 3, column 20, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: to
... sports, invalid. the argument fails to to provide enough information to support t...
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Line 3, column 168, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...sports among their favorite recreational activities. the survey data presented la...
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Suggestion: The
...heir favorite recreational activities. the survey data presented lack depth of det...
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Suggestion: How
... the significance of the study results. how many people were surveyed? what was the...
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Suggestion: What
...results. how many people were surveyed? what was the margin of error how was the stu...
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Suggestion: If
... of error how was the study conducted? if the survey represented large enough gro...
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Suggestion: If
...p to extrapolate the genral population? if alternatively few people were surveyed ...
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Line 3, column 472, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “if” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...p to extrapolate the genral population? if alternatively few people were surveyed ...
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Line 3, column 877, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...t mean they like watching water sports. The argument leaves many other unanswere...
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Line 5, column 54, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Even
...leaves many other unanswered questions. even if the residents of the mason city will...
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Line 9, column 129, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...that if government devote more money in this years buget to riverside recreational f...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, regarding, second, so, then
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.6327345309 71% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 3.0 11.1786427146 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1788.0 2260.96107784 79% => OK
No of words: 344.0 441.139720559 78% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1976744186 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30665032142 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76127904773 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 157.0 204.123752495 77% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.456395348837 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 553.5 705.55239521 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 110.12638843 57.8364921388 190% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.714285714 119.503703932 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.5714285714 23.324526521 105% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.14285714286 5.70786347227 55% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 17.0 5.25449101796 324% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => 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: 0.224177489245 0.218282227539 103% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0792106699206 0.0743258471296 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0989219171234 0.0701772020484 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.139384119258 0.128457276422 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0446445908495 0.0628817314937 71% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.3 14.3799401198 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.18 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.27 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 75.0 98.500998004 76% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 12.3882235529 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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