The number of skateboarders increasing and the popularity of the Central Plaza decreasing has a vague relationship. I don't think that the author has provided enough reasons for this to happen and has only just stated one statement.
The author has said that the owners believe that the business is decreasing because of the skateboarding activities and the amount of litter and vandalism done by the skateboarders but in any part of the passage no evidence is given that the nuisance is created by the skateboarders itself. Maybe the author thinks that as the skateboarding activity is increased therefore leads to more of the litter but at the same time it can be possible that the litter is done by the Central Plaza owners or the people working there itself.
Also the author has not mentioned how the increase in skateboarding has caused the decrease in the business of the Central Plaza owners. This is just a mere prediction of the author that states that one quantity is increasing and other is decreasing then definitely the former is the cause of the latter to happen.
The prohibition of skateboarding is told as the solution of the problem in the above argument. There is no solid evidence that the prohibition would lead to the higher levels of business as maybe that would even lessen the business as there maybe possibility that the skateboarders would come to the plaza and would buy things and increase the business.
Moreover it is not clearly mentioned that the fault in the decrement of the levels of the business is only because of skateboarding. Maybe there are other reasons to that, maybe the quality of the things of the Central Plaza is not upto the mark therefore people do not come to buy the products there.
Therefore the argument sounds inconvincing to me and even more than that the conclusion derived from the argument is vague as it does not consider all the possibilities.
- "Over the past two years, the number of shoppers in Central Plaza has been steadily decreasing while the popularity of skateboarding has increased dramatically. Many Central Plaza store owners believe that the decrease in their business is due to the numb 81
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 11 15
No. of Words: 329 350
No. of Characters: 1562 1500
No. of Different Words: 136 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.259 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.748 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.774 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 106 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 73 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 57 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 34 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 29.909 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.723 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.636 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.426 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.763 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.122 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 119, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
... decreasing has a vague relationship. I dont think that the author has provided enou...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
... or the people working there itself. Also the author has not mentioned how the in...
^^^^
Line 7, column 41, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...The prohibition of skateboarding is told as the solution of the problem in the ab...
^^
Line 9, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Moreover,
...uy things and increase the business. Moreover it is not clearly mentioned that the fa...
^^^^^^^^
Line 11, column 1, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Therefore,
... not come to buy the products there. Therefore the argument sounds inconvincing to me ...
^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, may, moreover, so, then, therefore
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 55.5748502994 65% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1600.0 2260.96107784 71% => OK
No of words: 328.0 441.139720559 74% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.87804878049 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.25567506705 4.56307096286 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81801668288 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 136.0 204.123752495 67% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.414634146341 0.468620217663 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 506.7 705.55239521 72% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 3.0 8.76447105788 34% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 19.7664670659 56% => 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: 29.0 22.8473053892 127% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 60.9903121964 57.8364921388 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 145.454545455 119.503703932 122% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.8181818182 23.324526521 128% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.09090909091 5.70786347227 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.264558720459 0.218282227539 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.118930102942 0.0743258471296 160% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.12486687195 0.0701772020484 178% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.134157510823 0.128457276422 104% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0805206568818 0.0628817314937 128% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.5 14.3799401198 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.5 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.197005988 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.62 12.5979740519 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.11 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 63.0 98.500998004 64% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 15.0 12.3882235529 121% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.1389221557 122% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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