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.
The author states that inspite of lowering the speed limit from 55 to 45 miles per hour, Prunty County highways have not experienced a decrease in the number of accidents. The author then compares the measures taken by Butler County to reduce the number of accidents and suggests implementing similar strategies for solving this problem. However, there are many loopholes in this argument and several other factors must be considered in order to truly reach to a proper conclusion.
Firstly, the author has naively compared the situation of Butler County and Prunty Country without considering the difference in location of the two highways. As mentioned, Butler County undertook a road improvement project, with the idea of improving roads and resurfacing rough highways. There is no evidence to suggest that these were the strategies which were adopted to decrease the number of accidents. The 25 percent fewer reported accidents might have been a by-product of improvement of roads and not a direct consequence. What worked for Butler County may not necessarily work for Prunty County.
Secondly, it is necessary to first evaluate the nature of traffic in Prunty County and Butler County. It might be that traffic is very less in Butler County and so even though the speed limit is 55 mph, since the number of vehicles on the roads are less, it very natural that the number of accidents will also be less. On contrast, Prunty County might cater to a large traffic and a wide variety of vehicles- from bikes to cars to big trucks. Adding that to dangerous intersection an high speed of vehicles, the chances of accident in evidently increases. By understanding the nature of traffic, some rules and regulations can be laid out with respect to different vehicles such as different speed limits for different vehicles.
Thirdly, the author states that many drivers in Prunty County were exceeding the speed limit of 45 miles per hour. But it is important to find out why this has happened. If a restriction was imposed on speed of vehicles, it should be ensured that the drivers follow them. This shows that the police or the people responsible for surveillance did not do their jobs correctly. High speed of vehicles can be a major reason for the accidents on the highway. Hence, tighter regulations need to be implemented in order to keep a check on the speed limits of the drivers.
Fourthly, it will also help in analysing the accidents, the time of day they occurred, and the type of vehicles involved in the accidents. If a greater number of accidents are happening during the day, then speed limit can be reduced further or if majority of accidents are happening for two-wheelers, then a separate lane can be reserved for the two-wheelers.
Hence, the arguer has failed to analyse the situation correctly. In order to thoroughly examine the problem, we need to consider several other factors such as nature of traffic and accidents and also increase surveillance on the highways. Simply following Butler County’s methods might not produce fruitful results.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 482, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
.... Adding that to dangerous intersection an high speed of vehicles, the chances of ...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, such as, with respect to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 74.0 55.5748502994 133% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2572.0 2260.96107784 114% => OK
No of words: 511.0 441.139720559 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03326810176 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75450408675 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74448426615 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 204.123752495 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.465753424658 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 792.9 705.55239521 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.5018957122 57.8364921388 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.166666667 119.503703932 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2916666667 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.70786347227 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.286687233196 0.218282227539 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0820314270059 0.0743258471296 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0893112668588 0.0701772020484 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151542306515 0.128457276422 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0889656764923 0.0628817314937 141% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.32 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 98.500998004 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 482, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
.... Adding that to dangerous intersection an high speed of vehicles, the chances of ...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, such as, with respect to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.6327345309 117% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 11.1786427146 134% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 23.0 28.8173652695 80% => OK
Preposition: 74.0 55.5748502994 133% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 16.3942115768 79% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2572.0 2260.96107784 114% => OK
No of words: 511.0 441.139720559 116% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03326810176 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75450408675 4.56307096286 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.74448426615 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 238.0 204.123752495 117% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.465753424658 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 792.9 705.55239521 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 22.8473053892 92% => OK
Sentence length SD: 43.5018957122 57.8364921388 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.166666667 119.503703932 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.2916666667 23.324526521 91% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.70786347227 88% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.286687233196 0.218282227539 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0820314270059 0.0743258471296 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0893112668588 0.0701772020484 127% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.151542306515 0.128457276422 118% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0889656764923 0.0628817314937 141% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.3799401198 90% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 50.16 48.3550499002 104% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.197005988 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.89 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.32 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 118.0 98.500998004 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 12.3882235529 109% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.1389221557 93% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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.