The letter to the town council of Balmer Island suggest a solution to reduce the number of accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians. The suggestion to this problem include limiting the number of rentals from 50 to 25 per day during the summer since the population during the summer tends to increase. This argument is flawed for making assumptions on the island and why there are many moped accidents in the first place.
First, the letter states that by reducing by half the number of mopeds rented will reduce the number of accidents. This is flawed because just because there is less mopeds, does not mean there will be less accidents. Maybe the reason why there is more moped accidents during the summer is because there is more people. Perhaps people visiting the island are not cautious when they walk across streets and therefore causes accidents. Another reason could be that people visiting the island are not familiar or don’t normally drive mopeds, which may cause more accidents on the island.
The argument also states that by eliminating half of the mopeds available for rental will result in 50% decrease in accidents. Again, because there is less bikes, we can’t conclude there will be less accidents. Perhaps if we had a number or average of accidents per mopeds we can have a better estimate. If we knew that each moped on average had about 2 accidents per day, we can conclude that the number of accidents will decrease by half if we limit half of the mopeds for rent.
Furthermore, it is argued that in Seaville island they reduced the number of accidents by reducing the number of moped rentals by half. Although this may had worked for Seaville Island, it does not mean it will work for Balmer Island. There is not enough information on how each island is different or similar to conclude the same results. Also, we don’t know if Seaville island did anything else beside reducing the number of moped rentals to reduce the number of accidents. Maybe Seaville island had more requirements for renting mopeds or informed the drivers more on how to use them to prevent accidents.
In conclusion, there is not enough evidence to assume limiting the number of moped rentals will result in less number of accidents. Several assumptions are made to predict a result that will not likely happen. We don’t have enough information to back up the argument and what worked for one place might or might not work in another place.
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Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- duplicated to argument 1
argument 3 -- OK
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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: 20 15
No. of Words: 424 350
No. of Characters: 1982 1500
No. of Different Words: 163 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.538 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.675 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.347 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 160 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 87 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 60 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 31 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 21.2 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 4.956 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.55 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.376 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.574 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.182 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 152, Rule ID: THERE_S_MANY[4]
Message: Did you mean 'there are less mopeds'?
Suggestion: there are less mopeds
...ts. This is flawed because just because there is less mopeds, does not mean there will be less accid...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 4, column 161, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun mopeds is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...is flawed because just because there is less mopeds, does not mean there will be les...
^^^^
Line 4, column 202, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun accidents is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...ess mopeds, does not mean there will be less accidents. Maybe the reason why there i...
^^^^
Line 6, column 143, Rule ID: THERE_S_MANY[4]
Message: Did you mean 'there are less bikes'?
Suggestion: there are less bikes
...% decrease in accidents. Again, because there is less bikes, we can't conclude there will be l...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 6, column 152, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun bikes is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...e in accidents. Again, because there is less bikes, we can't conclude there wil...
^^^^
Line 6, column 201, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun accidents is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...s, we can't conclude there will be less accidents. Perhaps if we had a number o...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, if, may, so, therefore, in conclusion, in the first place
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 55.5748502994 97% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 16.3942115768 55% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2055.0 2260.96107784 91% => OK
No of words: 421.0 441.139720559 95% => OK
Chars per words: 4.88123515439 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52971130743 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.46127298674 2.78398813304 88% => OK
Unique words: 163.0 204.123752495 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.387173396675 0.468620217663 83% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 646.2 705.55239521 92% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 4.0 8.76447105788 46% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => 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: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 25.4962742376 57.8364921388 44% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 102.75 119.503703932 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.05 23.324526521 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.15 5.70786347227 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 15.0 6.88822355289 218% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.272974340831 0.218282227539 125% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0964099166137 0.0743258471296 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0745042939252 0.0701772020484 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.17291217125 0.128457276422 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.110169595604 0.0628817314937 175% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 14.3799401198 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 58.62 48.3550499002 121% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 12.197005988 84% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.02 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.38 8.32208582834 89% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 98.500998004 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 12.3882235529 73% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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