Workers in the small town of Leeville take fewer sick days than workers in the large city of Masontown, 50 miles away. Moreover, relative to population size, the diagnosis of stress-related illness is proportionally much lower in Leeville than in Masontown. According to the Leeville Chamber of Commerce, these facts can be attributed to the health benefits of the relatively relaxed pace of life in Leeville.
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 living in Leeville city is much more beneficial for human beings owing to the fact that not only will people not suffer from illnesses but also will be able to lead a healthy life than living in Masontown City. However, the premises upon which he puts his claim are fallacious. For the support of which more critical, yet ignored question need to be addressed.
The first assumption that lacks some semblance of truth and can be overtly impugned is that workers in Leeville take fewer sick days than Masonton workers. However, it does not lend credence to the argument since a question that might arise is whether working situations and conditions are equal in both cities. One point that should be considered is that the author does not provide any information about working environment and the situation as a whole in both cities. In fact, there is a possibility that workers in Leeville work fewer hours than workers in another city. Or maybe workers do not work completely and even pass the buck. It is also important to say that perhaps employees in Masontown work in several places in order to accumulate a hoard of money.
The author also embraces the idea that according to the population size, people in Leeville rarely face stress-related illness. Although it might seem tenable at a face, it has some defects since you can always ask this question if not having stress could support the superiority of Leeville city. One of the main, if not the only, the problem with the premise is that the author does not mention anything about the population size in both cities. Indeed, maybe Leeville city is a crowded place than Masontown, although Leeville is a small town. The Masontown City is the big city, so, people are able to find a suitable remedy for their stress. Or perhaps citizens in Masontown do great works for the development of their city, which bring more stress until the task get perfectly done. Moreover, maybe people in Leeville suffer from other diseases, which might be worse than stress in Masontown City.
Putting the two previous assumptions aside, there is still room for doubt. As set forth by the author people in Leeville city are able to relax and unwind. So, it provides an opportunity for settlements to shun unhealthy life. Nevertheless, the rationale behind this premise could be challenged owing to an unsettled question if Leeville is full of facilities and it will fulfill people's needs and recreations. One point that should not go unnoticed is that a city should be full of facilities and hobbies in order to help citizens enjoy the relaxed pace of life. Maybe Leeville is just known for its fresh air and tranquility without any facility and technology because the author just hints at lower illness. Nowadays, vast majorities of people prefer to live in cities with the higher level of technologies, which can provide them a relaxed life.
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.
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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: 24 15
No. of Words: 540 350
No. of Characters: 2568 1500
No. of Different Words: 255 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.821 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.756 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.5 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 171 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 128 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 88 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 51 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.631 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.625 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.294 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.485 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.085 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, moreover, nevertheless, so, still, while, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 14.0 11.1786427146 125% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 13.6137724551 154% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 55.5748502994 115% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2630.0 2260.96107784 116% => OK
No of words: 540.0 441.139720559 122% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87037037037 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82057051367 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55301537738 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 258.0 204.123752495 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.477777777778 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 820.8 705.55239521 116% => 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: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.4231923313 57.8364921388 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 109.583333333 119.503703932 92% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.5 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.54166666667 5.70786347227 62% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.67664670659 107% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.2518147961 0.218282227539 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.074134091326 0.0743258471296 100% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0870178268398 0.0701772020484 124% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120657324027 0.128457276422 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0903972784201 0.0628817314937 144% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.3799401198 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.3550499002 119% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.26 12.5979740519 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.86 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 107.0 98.500998004 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => 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: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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