The following appeared in a letter sent by a committee of homeowners from the Deerhaven Acres to all homeowners in Deerhaven Acres.
"Seven years ago, homeowners in nearby Brookville community adopted a set of restrictions on how the community's yards should be landscaped and what colors the exteriors of homes should be painted. Since then, average property values have tripled in Brookville. In order to raise property values in Deerhaven Acres, we should adopt our own set of restrictions on landscaping and housepainting."
In the letter sent by the committee to all homeowners in Deerhaven Acres, the author proposes to implement regulations on landscaping and house painting in order to increase the property values. To support the proposal, the author cites the evidence that a similar set of regulations had been implemented in Brookville seven years ago with property values tripled. However, the evidence is insufficient and ineffective to conclude that the same measures are going to yield in Deerhaven Acres.
In the process of reasoning, the author assumes that the uniformity of the yards and of the houses' exterior painting in Brookville is the reason for its increase in the property values. But we find no concrete evidence to substantiate the inevitable relationship between the restrictions and the increase. As we know, the property values are complex indexes that are decided by multiple factors. For example, an increase in population influx could be a reason that pushes the property values to climb up. Alternatively, a slump of demands on the houses could lead to the growth as well. Without ruling out these factors, the homeowners cannot be convinced that the restrictions were responsible for the increase.
Furthermore, a hidden assumption behind the argument is that all conditions and factors upon which the effectiveness of the restrictions depend have remained unchanged during the past seven years. However, conditions and factors could have varied. For instance, the economy in the particular country could be really robust and booming seven years ago. On the contrary, it might suffer a downtrend recession currently. Another counterexample can be related to the population. Seven years ago, the city continuously attracted foreigners to settle in and domestic workers to earn their living there, however, an outflux trend might have been triggered and people are moving out unstoppably. Without taking these possibilities into account, the assumption that the measures taken seven years ago are still effective nowadays is untenable.
Last but not least, in the argument the author recommends the committee of Deerhaven Acres to carry out the same plans as Brookville, but we may ask that whether Deerhaven Acres and Brookville are similar enough and comparable. For example, the majority of people living in Brookville might be engineers and lawyers who prefer rules and integrity, thus, regulated appearances. However, the most people around Deerhaven Acres might be artists and musicians who are with full of imagination and inclined to unconstrained layouts. Before the committee decides to copy Brookville's experience, the author should take these differences into consideration and validate the comparability between the two areas.
In conclusion, even though the author proposed an insightful suggestion for the increase in property values in Deerhaven Acres, the given evidence is far from being sound and sufficient. Thus, to make the argument more compelling, the author would have to provide more information about how the factors can affect the property price and why the successful experience in Brookville can be copied to Deerhaven Acres.
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Essay evaluation report
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 5.0 out of 6
Category: Very Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 492 350
No. of Characters: 2619 1500
No. of Different Words: 239 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.71 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.323 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.895 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 205 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 158 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 119 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 80 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.364 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.663 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.682 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.292 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.513 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.096 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, furthermore, however, if, may, really, so, still, thus, well, for example, for instance, in conclusion, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 11.1786427146 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 13.6137724551 88% => OK
Pronoun: 18.0 28.8173652695 62% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 55.5748502994 124% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2683.0 2260.96107784 119% => OK
No of words: 492.0 441.139720559 112% => OK
Chars per words: 5.45325203252 5.12650576532 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70967865282 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.96863979439 2.78398813304 107% => OK
Unique words: 242.0 204.123752495 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.491869918699 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 839.7 705.55239521 119% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 4.96107784431 20% => OK
Article: 18.0 8.76447105788 205% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 3.0 2.70958083832 111% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 10.0 4.22255489022 237% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 53.3663658896 57.8364921388 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 121.954545455 119.503703932 102% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.3636363636 23.324526521 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.63636363636 5.70786347227 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 8.20758483034 183% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More 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: 0.211953576441 0.218282227539 97% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0555435787083 0.0743258471296 75% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0545805621949 0.0701772020484 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119973787454 0.128457276422 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0584030469939 0.0628817314937 93% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.4 14.3799401198 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 40.69 48.3550499002 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.1 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.63 12.5979740519 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.96 8.32208582834 108% => OK
difficult_words: 132.0 98.500998004 134% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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