The following appears in a letter to the editor for the West Lansburg News:
"The tufted groundhog lives in the coastal wetlands of West Lansburg. Ancient records suggest that the tufted groundhog once numbered in the millions. Since they were declared a wildlife sanctuary in 2004, development along the coastal wetlands has been prohibited. Now local development interests are lobbying for the West Lansburg council to allow an access road to be built along the edge of wetlands. Neighboring Eastern Carpenteria, which had a similar sanctuary, has seen its sea otter population decline since the repeal of its sanctuary status in 1978. In order to preserve the region's biodiversity and ensure a healthy environment, the West Lansburg council should not allow the road to be built."
The argument is based on how tufted groundhogs, which lives in the West Lansburg coastal regions may face a similar fate of sea otter, which declined rapidly after disbanding the sanctuary status of Eastern Carpenteria in 1978. The argument is flawed for several possible reasons, which should be clarified before making any possible conclusion based on the following arguments from the letter.
First of all, the similar case that has been cited was for sea otter, which is a completely different organism than tufted groundhogs. Different organisms have different lifestyles and life history trai...
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Essay evaluation report
argument 1 -- OK
argument 2 -- OK
argument 3 -- OK
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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: 13 15
No. of Words: 370 350
No. of Characters: 1864 1500
No. of Different Words: 170 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.386 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.038 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.617 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 135 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 102 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 76 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 52 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 28.462 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.419 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.692 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.407 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.655 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.088 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, may, so, therefore, as for, first of all, with respect to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.9520958084 124% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 3.0 28.8173652695 10% => OK
Preposition: 50.0 55.5748502994 90% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1910.0 2260.96107784 84% => OK
No of words: 370.0 441.139720559 84% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.16216216216 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38581623665 4.56307096286 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.67357821148 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 179.0 204.123752495 88% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.483783783784 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 585.9 705.55239521 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 19.7664670659 76% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 74.9172580622 57.8364921388 130% => OK
Chars per sentence: 127.333333333 119.503703932 107% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.6666666667 23.324526521 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.26666666667 5.70786347227 92% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.11180890877 0.218282227539 51% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0391266338481 0.0743258471296 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0410426418132 0.0701772020484 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0688518114431 0.128457276422 54% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0380615913765 0.0628817314937 61% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 14.3799401198 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.94 12.5979740519 103% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.54 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 87.0 98.500998004 88% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.