The following is a petition to the city council of Centerville:
"Over the past three years, there has been a marked increase in cases of 'sidewalk rage,' similar to the irrational anger drivers experience on the road, but instead among sidewalk walkers. The result is an increase in assaults, property damage, and disruptions of normal pedestrian traffic. In order to address this growing problem, the council must ban cell phone use on sidewalks. Not only do people texting or using their phones slow down pedestrian traffic, but they are also more likely to walk into the road or bump into other walkers. Children are especially vulnerable because they are too short to be easily seen. Middletown passed such a ban and not only have they heard no complaints, but the reported incidents of sidewalk crime has gone down significantly."
The above argument makes many unwarranted assumptions to reach its conclusion. If these assumption were to be false, the whole argument would fall flat on its face.
The argument equates the use of cell phones to the rise in the incidents of "sidewalk rage", which is suspect. There could be many reasons for this increase discounting the effect of cell phones. There can be an increase in gang related activities which could lead increase in sidewalk rage as these gangs lock horns with each other. If the argument could show us the exsistance of a direct relationship between the use of cell phones and the increase in sidewalk rage, the argument would have a stronger base.
The argument makes a glaring assumption that the cities of Centerville and Middletown are same. It could very well be the case that people in Middletown using the sidewalks are significantly less as compared to Centerville. This can impact the number of reported cases of sidewalk rage, and the overall effect of cell phone ban. If the arugumet sheds light on the similarities between the two cities and shows that these two cities operated the same, the arugument would be in much better shape.
The argument also assumes that the children are most vulnerable based on just the fact that they are short. It can very well be the case that children are the main culprits for the rise in sidewalk rage. If the argument could provide some evidence that indicates that children are disproportionately affected by sidewalk rage, the argument could be streangthend.
The argument like swish cheese is riddled with gaping holes of fallacies, and hence cannot be considered as a valid one.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 14 15
No. of Words: 281 350
No. of Characters: 1352 1500
No. of Different Words: 137 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.094 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.811 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.635 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 82 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 66 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 55 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 24 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.071 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.244 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.571 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.37 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.64 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.113 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 83, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this assumption' or 'these assumptions'?
Suggestion: this assumption; these assumptions
...assumptions to reach its conclusion. If these assumption were to be false, the whole argument wo...
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Line 5, column 197, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[1]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
...ng the sidewalks are significantly less as compared to Centerville. This can impac...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, hence, if, so, then, well
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 28.8173652695 66% => OK
Preposition: 31.0 55.5748502994 56% => More preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1401.0 2260.96107784 62% => OK
No of words: 281.0 441.139720559 64% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.98576512456 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.09427095027 4.56307096286 90% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.7419091671 2.78398813304 98% => OK
Unique words: 142.0 204.123752495 70% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.505338078292 0.468620217663 108% => 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: 3.0 4.96107784431 60% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 19.7664670659 71% => 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: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 30.3997180438 57.8364921388 53% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 100.071428571 119.503703932 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.0714285714 23.324526521 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.21428571429 5.70786347227 39% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 8.20758483034 37% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => 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: 0.151733492174 0.218282227539 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0608273237578 0.0743258471296 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0447088820107 0.0701772020484 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0776509995068 0.128457276422 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0664974549751 0.0628817314937 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 14.3799401198 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.5979740519 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.78 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 56.0 98.500998004 57% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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