"Two years ago the city voted to prohibit skateboarding in Central Plaza. They claimed that skateboard users were responsible for the litter and vandalism that were keeping other visitors from coming to the plaza. In the past two years, however, there has only been a small increase in the number of visitors to Central Plaza, and litter and vandalism are still problematic. Skateboarding is permitted in Monroe Park, however, and there is no problem with litter or vandalism there. In order to restore Central Plaza to its former glory, then, we recommend that the city lift its prohibition on skateboarding in the plaza."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation and the argument on which it is based are reasonable. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The author of the argument purportedly highlights that the Central Plaza should terminate its prohibition on skateboarding after two years in order to increase the number of visitors and enhance revenue. However, the premises upon which he puts his claim are fallacious. For the support of which some critical, yet ignored question need to be addressed.
The first assumption that lacks some semblance of truth and can be overtly impugned is the fact that the city prevents the activity of skateboarders during two years ago. However, it does not lend credence to the argument since a question that might arise is whether the city banned their activities because of the decrease in revenue and income. One point that should be considered is that maybe the city prohibited skateboarding because of different reasons. Indeed, maybe skateboarders did not respect the laws and rules in the central plaza and the city decided to ban their activities.
The author also points out that this restriction on skateboarding diminishes the number of visitors to the central plaza. Although it might seem tenable at a face, it has some defects since you can always ask this question if skateboarding is the main reason of stagnation in central Plaza. One of the main, if not the only, problem with the premise is that the author does not mention anything about the economic situation. As a matter of fact, maybe people did not prefer to visit the Central plaza because of inflation and economic recession. Or perhaps they did not find the plaza a good place to visit due to its location, prices, workers, quality and so forth. Alongside that, what if allowing skateboarding in the central plaza could not appeal visitors? Indeed, there is no guarantee people visit the Plaza after repelling this prohibition.
Putting the two assumptions above aside, there is still room for doubt. As set forth by the author skateboarders are not the main reason for litter and vandalism like Monroe Park that skateboarding is permitted and there is no problem with vandalism and litter. Nevertheless, the rationale behind this premise could be challenged owing to an unsettled question if lift the prohibition of skateboarding could reduce litter and vandalism. One point that should not go unnoticed is that skateboarders can easily cause damage in any place and something disruption may come up. In fact, maybe Monroe Park assign a specific place to skateboarders or perhaps a few number of people visit the Monroe Park, who knows?
Having scrutinized all the premises, a logical conclusion that can be drawn is that there are a number of questions, having been ignored by the author while the answer of which could add to the logic of each premise.
Comments
Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- not OK
argument 2 -- not OK
argument 3 -- not OK
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Still we need to prove that it is right to prohibit skateboarding in Central Plaza.
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: ? out of 6
Category: Poor Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 453 350
No. of Characters: 2228 1500
No. of Different Words: 211 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.613 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.918 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.709 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 154 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 112 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 76 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 51 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.65 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.492 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.65 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.308 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.527 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.094 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 655, Rule ID: MANY_NN[1]
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun number seems to be countable; consider using: 'few numbers'.
Suggestion: few numbers
...fic place to skateboarders or perhaps a few number of people visit the Monroe Park, who kn...
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Line 9, column 218, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...could add to the logic of each premise.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, so, still, while, in fact, as a matter of fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 20.0 19.6327345309 102% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 29.0 28.8173652695 101% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2285.0 2260.96107784 101% => OK
No of words: 453.0 441.139720559 103% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04415011038 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.61343653406 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77404843975 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 204.123752495 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.481236203091 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 705.6 705.55239521 100% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.6930907759 57.8364921388 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.25 119.503703932 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.65 23.324526521 97% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.55 5.70786347227 80% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 6.88822355289 174% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.303104798625 0.218282227539 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0928227403537 0.0743258471296 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0630597723729 0.0701772020484 90% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.156212291744 0.128457276422 122% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0783997015152 0.0628817314937 125% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 14.3799401198 95% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 98.500998004 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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