The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a local newspaper.
"Commuters complain that increased rush-hour traffic on Blue Highway between the suburbs and the city center has doubled their commuting time. The favored proposal of the motorists' lobby is to widen the highway, adding an additional lane of traffic. But last year's addition of a lane to the nearby Green Highway was followed by a worsening of traffic jams on it. A better alternative is to add a bicycle lane to Blue Highway. Many area residents are keen bicyclists. A bicycle lane would encourage them to use bicycles to commute, and so would reduce rush-hour traffic rather than fostering an increase."
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 writer of the letter states that commuters complaining about a rush-hour traffic augmented their journey time on Blue Highway because of low-width roads and hence motor cyclists favored to widen highway. Hence, he suggests to add bicycle lane to Blue Highway to reduce traffic. But, He fails to elucidate how the traffic will be reduced.
Firstly, writer suggests to add bicycle lane to Blue Highway on the basis of last year's data that the traffic is even more exacerbated in the last year after adding additional lane to Green Highway. But, he failed to provide enough proofs that will support his statement. It might be possible that after last year, new highway or bypass road to Green Highway is constructed because of which traffic might be reduced on Green Highway. Furthermore, even if there is augmentation in traffic last year, there is possibility that rush on the Green Highway is because of nearby greater industrial area or corporate sector area, because of which traffic is more on that than Blue Highway which might pass through low-populated area. Therefore, widening Blue Highway might not be the solution to subside traffic.
Secondly, according to writer, there is alternative to recede traffic intensity is adding bicycle lane on Blue Highway because many area residents are keen bicyclists. But, again, he fails to show data or any survey which proves that residents are really keen bicyclists. Furthermore, even if they have fond of bicycle riding, they might not be ready to use cycles to go to offices or if there destination is far away from there residency.
In conclusion, the writers arguments are nothing but vague as lack of evidences to show the motor cyclists' demand to widen roads and adding bicycle lane to Blue Highway seems intuition. He also fails to provide evidences of residents are really keen cyclists.
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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: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 13 15
No. of Words: 307 350
No. of Characters: 1512 1500
No. of Different Words: 142 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.186 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.925 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.493 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 112 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 88 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 42 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 33 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.615 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 11.042 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.923 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.411 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.603 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.195 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 222, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'suggests adding'.
Suggestion: suggests adding
...sts favored to widen highway. Hence, he suggests to add bicycle lane to Blue Highway to reduce ...
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Line 1, column 351, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...cidation how the traffic will be reduced . Firstly, writer suggests to add bicycl...
^^
Line 2, column 17, Rule ID: ADMIT_ENJOY_VB[1]
Message: This verb is used with the gerund form: 'suggests adding'.
Suggestion: suggests adding
...ffic will be reduced . Firstly, writer suggests to add bicycle lane to Blue Highway on the bas...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 2, column 83, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'years'' or 'year's'?
Suggestion: years'; year's
...ne to Blue Highway on the basis of last years data that even more traffic exacerbated...
^^^^^
Line 2, column 440, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'writers'' or 'writer's'?
Suggestion: writers'; writer's
...on Green Highway. Furthermore, even the writers statement is true, there is possibilty ...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 123, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...y is adding bicylce lane on Blue HIghway because many area residents are keen bic...
^^
Line 4, column 146, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... motor cyclist demand to widen roads and adding bicycle lane to Blue Highway seem...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, firstly, furthermore, hence, if, really, second, secondly, so, therefore, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 43.0 55.5748502994 77% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 16.3942115768 30% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1558.0 2260.96107784 69% => OK
No of words: 309.0 441.139720559 70% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.04207119741 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.1926597562 4.56307096286 92% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55014231102 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 147.0 204.123752495 72% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.47572815534 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 484.2 705.55239521 69% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 12.0 19.7664670659 61% => 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: 72.0021218823 57.8364921388 124% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.833333333 119.503703932 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.75 23.324526521 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.25 5.70786347227 145% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 7.0 5.25449101796 133% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.168333635849 0.218282227539 77% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0739351384462 0.0743258471296 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0790951810284 0.0701772020484 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.113737176136 0.128457276422 89% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0931523901052 0.0628817314937 148% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 14.3799401198 106% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 46.1 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.0 12.197005988 107% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 72.0 98.500998004 73% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => 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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