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.
It is said that the officials of Prunty country for the improvement of highway safety have decreased the speed limit from 55 to 45 miles per hour. But the project has failed, and they want to follow the same driving rules implemented in Butler country. This argument has some weakness and some positive point that I will discuss them.
On the one hand, the officials of Prunty country only rely on reducing the speed limit on highways. They did not consider other important factors that can interfere in the reduction of road accidents. For example, how did they want to control drivers to respect the new speed limit? They should put some speed cameras for controlling driving offenders. Also, they should add some speed bumps or road bends on the highways in order to reduce the speed of cars. Additionally, they must introduce some strict punishments for people in order to control them, including smalls fines, license suspension, and driving courses. Moreover, they failed to provide reliable statistical figures about the number of accidents. How they know that the reduction of speed limit did not have any effect on the reduction of accidents.
On the other hand, in the argument, we can see that the Butler County had better performance for the reduction of accidents, including increasing lane widths, resurfacing rough highways, and improving visibility at dangerous intersections. But also, there is no evidence or accurate figure about the number of accidents in this country. However, the solutions implemented in this country can be good choices.
In conclusion, I believe that reducing the speed limit is one of the factors of the reduction of accidents and officials should perform it alongside other factors mentioned above.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 2.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 285 350
No. of Characters: 1423 1500
No. of Different Words: 147 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.109 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.993 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.586 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 104 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 82 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 54 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 40 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 19 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.683 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.533 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.357 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.537 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.131 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, moreover, so, as for, for example, in conclusion, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 4.0 19.6327345309 20% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 12.9520958084 62% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 16.3942115768 61% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1476.0 2260.96107784 65% => OK
No of words: 285.0 441.139720559 65% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.17894736842 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10876417139 4.56307096286 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68905651312 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 148.0 204.123752495 73% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.519298245614 0.468620217663 111% => OK
syllable_count: 442.8 705.55239521 63% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 5.0 1.67365269461 299% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
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: 19.0 22.8473053892 83% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.0584805188 57.8364921388 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.4 119.503703932 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.0 23.324526521 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.8 5.70786347227 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.1834239887 0.218282227539 84% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0646334770135 0.0743258471296 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0736083121812 0.0701772020484 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.119573929425 0.128457276422 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0620938086319 0.0628817314937 99% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.5 14.3799401198 87% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 52.19 48.3550499002 108% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.197005988 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 12.5979740519 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.57 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 98.500998004 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 12.3882235529 61% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.1389221557 86% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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