The argument that switching all the lights
in public buildings from incandescent bulbs to light-emitting diodes (LEDs) would help Town X save money on electrical costs in the future is not entirely logically convincing since it ignore certain logical assumption.
The argument assumes that LED lights burn brighter and cost no more to purchase but it does nothing to explain which one consumes more energy or which of the bulbs last longer. If the LED bulb consumes more energy that shows a flaw in the argument.
Secondly, the argument never address if the bulb will fit into old switch or they will be provided with new features. It the bulb does not fit into the old features that means there will be additional cost on the LED bulb and that will consequencly oppose the argument.
Thirdly, the argument does not state any other setback or undisclosed consequence of the new bulb. There is no additional setback on the LED, we were not told about the maintenance of the bulb if it needs regular maintenance will result into flaw in the argument.
Thus, the argument is not completely sound, the evidence in support of the conclusion that switching all the lights in public buildings from incandescent bulbs to light-emitting diodes (LEDs) would help Town X save money on electrical costs in the future does little to prove the conclusion since it does not address the assumption raised. The argument might have been strengthened if the author has addressed that the new bulb consumes less energy, that the bulb will fit into the existing features and states that there is no undisclosed setback.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 9 15
No. of Words: 271 350
No. of Characters: 1305 1500
No. of Different Words: 120 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.057 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.815 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.622 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 83 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 62 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 49 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 27 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 30.111 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.976 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.778 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.502 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.788 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.193 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 21, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ical assumption. The argument assumes that LED lights burn brighter and cost n...
^^
Line 4, column 179, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...ergy or which of the bulbs last longer. If the LED bulb consumes more energy that ...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, if, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, thus
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 19.6327345309 41% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 16.0 28.8173652695 56% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 55.5748502994 54% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1341.0 2260.96107784 59% => More number of characters wanted.
No of words: 271.0 441.139720559 61% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94833948339 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.05734859645 4.56307096286 89% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.68260860695 2.78398813304 96% => OK
Unique words: 123.0 204.123752495 60% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.453874538745 0.468620217663 97% => OK
syllable_count: 400.5 705.55239521 57% => syllable counts are too short.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 9.0 19.7664670659 46% => 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: 30.0 22.8473053892 131% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 78.5546911786 57.8364921388 136% => OK
Chars per sentence: 149.0 119.503703932 125% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.1111111111 23.324526521 129% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.33333333333 5.70786347227 111% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.20758483034 49% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.327336536101 0.218282227539 150% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.151865109383 0.0743258471296 204% => Sentence topic similarity is high.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.117175651108 0.0701772020484 167% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.201686154378 0.128457276422 157% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0917125287023 0.0628817314937 146% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.9 14.3799401198 118% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.49 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.02 12.5979740519 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.86 8.32208582834 94% => OK
difficult_words: 47.0 98.500998004 48% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 11.1389221557 126% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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