The city council of Town X has proposed reducing the city’s electric expenses by switching all the lights
in public buildings from incandescent bulbs to light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The switch would be made
gradually as the old incandescent bulbs burn out, and the city council reasons that since LED lights burn
brighter and cost no more to purchase, the switch would help Town X save money on electrical costs in the
future.
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered to help evaluate the
efficacy of the city council’s proposal to save money on electrical costs. Be sure to explain how the
answers to these questions would help to evaluate the council’s prediction.
Town X's counsel have decided to cut-down electrical spending by replacing all the bulb used in public infrastructure with LED, which cost no more as they said and burn brighter. This argument has some logical flaws which must be taken in account in order to consider this statement as conceded.
To commence with, the major logical fallacy is in the first statement that in order to decrease electrical expense that will be done by changing lights of public building, however, there is no justification of the proportion of electricity consumed by this sector -especially by bulb. To clarify it better we can say that it is feasible that amount used by this part is very negligible, whereas, there might be something major which consume energy profligately. For instance, bad habit of not switching off AC or fan after using it, could be one reason why it required more light. This argument has been had strengthen if the authentic survey of electricity usage by various sector was given.
Adding up to first fallacy, even if this considered valid that bulbs are taking unnecessary energy, it cannot be said that only public buildings are responsible for this cause, this effect is misleaded. There might be other reason for such context. Other sectors, such as residential, industrial and most significantly commercial, where there could be a possibility that for showrooms turn lights on for decoration purpose or advertisement at night. Again, this argument could be more valid if there were any proof of public building using more portion given.
Finally, they have assumed that even after doing is improvement they will be able to reduce consumption of electricity and save money, that again is a unwarranted hypothesize. Use of electricity grows by time to time, nowadays there are even cars and bike are available that runs on electrical energy, as demonstration. Therefore, it can be easily said that need of future energy cannot be considered without any deliberated studies, and that could valid the argument strongly.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
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: 13 15
No. of Words: 333 350
No. of Characters: 1659 1500
No. of Different Words: 186 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.272 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.982 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.742 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 108 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 83 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 62 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 42 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 25.615 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.678 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.692 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.329 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.558 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.056 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 147, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[1]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
...astructure with LED, which cost no more as they said and burn brighter. This argum...
^^
Line 5, column 300, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'betters', 'wells'?
Suggestion: betters; wells
...ctor -especially by bulb. To clarify it better we can say that it is feasible that amo...
^^^^^^
Line 5, column 609, Rule ID: HAD_VBP[1]
Message: Possible agreement error -- use past participle here: 'strengthened'.
Suggestion: strengthened
... more light. This argument has been had strengthen if the authentic survey of electricity ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 609, Rule ID: HAVE_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Use past participle here: 'strengthened'.
Suggestion: strengthened
... more light. This argument has been had strengthen if the authentic survey of electricity ...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 13, column 150, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...ectricity and save money, that again is a unwarranted hypothesize. Use of electri...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, however, if, so, then, therefore, whereas, for instance, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 55.5748502994 72% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 16.3942115768 98% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1711.0 2260.96107784 76% => OK
No of words: 333.0 441.139720559 75% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.13813813814 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27180144563 4.56307096286 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84095194343 2.78398813304 102% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.564564564565 0.468620217663 120% => OK
syllable_count: 547.2 705.55239521 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 1.0 8.76447105788 11% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 19.7664670659 66% => 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: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.4253709355 57.8364921388 98% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.615384615 119.503703932 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.6153846154 23.324526521 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.15384615385 5.70786347227 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 5.0 5.25449101796 95% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
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: 0.165764457657 0.218282227539 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0597932431088 0.0743258471296 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0414522233159 0.0701772020484 59% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105413704053 0.128457276422 82% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0228374329145 0.0628817314937 36% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.6 14.3799401198 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.1628742515 156% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.83 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.81 8.32208582834 106% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 98.500998004 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => 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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