In an attempt to improve highway safety, Prunty County last year lowered its speed limit from 55 to 45 miles per hour on all county highways. But this effort has failed: the number of accidents has not decreased, and, based on reports by the highway patrol, many drivers are exceeding the speed limit. Prunty County should instead undertake the same kind of road improvement project that Butler County completed five years ago: increasing lane widths, resurfacing rough highways, and improving visibility at dangerous intersections. Today, major Butler County roads still have a 55 mph speed limit, yet there were 25 percent fewer reported accidents in Butler County this past year than there were five years ago.
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.
The author of the article suggests that the Prunty County should launch the project of road improvement which is same as the Butler County to decrease the accidents. However, few pieces of evident are needed to make the claim more convincing.
The article states that the Prunty City lowered the speed limit from 55 to 45, but highway patrol reported lots of people exceeding the speed limit. The method of knowing drivers exceeding the speed limit should be provided. It is probably that the highway patrol only watch the monitor and measure the speed of every cars with their eyes instead of the precise equipment. The feeling of the speed is different from one to another. Then the number of the exceeding speed is not accurate at all. The author should provide the method of measuring the speed of all drivers to prove that the reports of the highway patrol is convincing.
The article also claims that the Prunty County should undertake the improvement of road same as the Butler County. There might have a chance that the driving habits are different between two counties. For example, the Prunty County has lots of factories, so the highway in Prunty County has lots of truck drivers. To make more money, the truck drive might sacrifice their sleeping time in order to transform the items from factory. On the other hand, Butler City is good for retire life, old people could not even drive a car or get out from home. Then increasing lane widths, resurfacing rough highways or improving dangerous intersections could not have any effect on decreasing the accidents, because the cause of the accidents is less of sleep.
The author purports that there were 25 percent fewer reported accidents in Bulter County this past year than there were five years ago. More data of the previous years are needed. If the number of accidents in Butler County has a lower number in this past year, other years data indicates there isn’t any decrease of the accidents cases. Then the author could not claim that the improvement of the road has well effect on control the accidents.
To conclude, the author should provided the evidence which had mentioned to strengthen the article.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 269, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'years'' or 'year's'?
Suggestion: years'; year's
...a lower number in this past year, other years data indicates there isn’t any decrease...
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Line 7, column 413, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[2]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'effected'.
Suggestion: effected
...at the improvement of the road has well effect on control the accidents. To conclud...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, so, then, well, for example, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 14.8657303371 27% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 13.0 33.0505617978 39% => OK
Preposition: 48.0 58.6224719101 82% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1820.0 2235.4752809 81% => OK
No of words: 372.0 442.535393258 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.89247311828 5.05705443957 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.39173103935 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.34424631986 2.79657885939 84% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 215.323595506 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.47311827957 0.4932671777 96% => OK
syllable_count: 546.3 704.065955056 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 6.24550561798 16% => OK
Article: 10.0 4.99550561798 200% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.38483146067 68% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 39.8801528683 60.3974514979 66% => OK
Chars per sentence: 95.7894736842 118.986275619 81% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.5789473684 23.4991977007 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.68421052632 5.21951772744 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.361312375888 0.243740707755 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.100387160553 0.0831039109588 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.088616929589 0.0758088955206 117% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.160236599998 0.150359130593 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0982446552032 0.0667264976115 147% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.4 14.1392134831 81% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.8420337079 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.08 12.1639044944 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.89 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 78.0 100.480337079 78% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.7820224719 85% => 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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