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.
The author of the given passage concludes that the safety effort of reducing the speed limit from 55 to 45 miles per hour on all major highways in Prunty County has not been able to decrease the number of accidents in Prunty County whereas in Butler County, who took varied measures like increasing lane widths, resurfacing rough highways, and improving visibility at dangerous intersections in 5 years, have seen significantly less number of accidents even though the speed limit is the same i.e 55 miles per hour. The author claims that there are 25 percent fewer reported accidents in Butler County this past year than there were five years ago.
Despite the evidence provided by the arguer, the argument has many flaws. The argument of the author is based on many assumptions like the terrain of both the Counties are more or less the same, the awareness amongst the people in both the counties are similar, etc. Along with this, the author ignores numerous other factors that might be the basis for more accidents, instead the author just focuses on the speed limit. Although the speed limit might be a major factor, it might not be the only one.
To begin with, the author assumes that the terrain and topography of both the couties is similar. However, the Prunty county might be situated in a hilly region where there might be no possibility of widening the roads and providing clarity at dangerous intersections. On the contrary, there is a possibility that the infrastructure in Prunty County is well maintained and clear and thus, drivers might have incentive to drive rashly. To corroborate this, it is stated in the argument that there are many drivers that break the speed limit rule. This leads to another point. The rules in Butler County might be stricter, more effectively implemented and followed. This can also lead to reduced number of accidents.
Moreover, it is stated that the speed limit on all major highways has been reduced to 45 miles per hour. However, the accidents may be occurring on other roads where there is no speed limit (like the streets). Along with this, it is stated that the Butler County took five years to build infrastucture and provide more assistance at intersections. However, the author compares one year change of Prunty County with 5 year change of Butler County. More number of years might lead to people being more cautious and aware about the amounts of accidents and thus prefer safer driving than rash driving.
Thus, in conclusion, all the above points state a few possibilities where the number of accidents in Prunty County might not be decreasing and as a result weaken the author's argument.
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Comments
e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 8 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 6 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 452 350
No. of Characters: 2156 1500
No. of Different Words: 195 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.611 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.77 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.463 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 147 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 92 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 63 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 37 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.789 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 18.76 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.579 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.33 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.506 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.053 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 147, Rule ID: A_RB_NN[1]
Message: You used an adverb ('hilly') instead an adjective, or a noun ('region') instead of another adjective.
... the Prunty county might be situated in a hilly region where there might be no possibility of ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 167, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
...e decreasing and as a result weaken the authors argument.
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, however, if, may, moreover, so, thus, well, whereas, in conclusion, as a result, more or less, on the contrary, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.6327345309 127% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.9520958084 85% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 58.0 55.5748502994 104% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 16.3942115768 37% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2212.0 2260.96107784 98% => OK
No of words: 451.0 441.139720559 102% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90465631929 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60833598836 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.52318807086 2.78398813304 91% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 204.123752495 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.450110864745 0.468620217663 96% => OK
syllable_count: 681.3 705.55239521 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 98.9018932455 57.8364921388 171% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.421052632 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.7368421053 23.324526521 102% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.15789473684 5.70786347227 125% => OK
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: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.329596342797 0.218282227539 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0979520836346 0.0743258471296 132% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.096604711446 0.0701772020484 138% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.205959924798 0.128457276422 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.126468691153 0.0628817314937 201% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.5 14.3799401198 94% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.44 12.5979740519 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.21 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 98.500998004 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 27.5 12.3882235529 222% => Linsear_write_formula is high.
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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