The following appears in a letter to the editor for the West Lansburg News:
"The tufted groundhog lives in the coastal wetlands of West Lansburg. Ancient records suggest that the tufted
groundhog once numbered in the millions. Since they were declared a wildlife sanctuary in 2004,
development along the coastal wetlands has been prohibited. Now local development interests are lobbying
for the West Lansburg council to allow an access road to be built along the edge of wetlands. Neighboring
Eastern Carpenteria, which had a similar sanctuary, has seen its sea otter population decline since the repeal
of its sanctuary status in 1978. In order to preserve the region's biodiversity and ensure a healthy
environment, the West Lansburg council should not allow the road to be built."
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.
In the preceding statement, the author claims that the West Lansburg council should not allow the road be built, as demanded by the local developement interests, in order to preserve the region's biodiversity and ensure a healthy environement. Also, as the base of his argument, the author has made an anology of the situation in West Lansburg to the situation in its neighbor Eastern Carpenteria. Though this claim may well have merit, the author makes a poorely reasoned argument, based on several questionable premises and assumptions, and based solely on the evidence that the author offers, we cannot accept his argument as valid.
The primary issue with the author's reasoning lies in his unsubstantiated premises. Firstly, the author has not provided any ligitimate evidence that suggets that the tufted groundhog once numbered in the millions. Just by refering it to ancient records does not makes the claim valid. Secondly, the author asserts that the sanctuary in Eartern Carpenteria, had seen a sea otter population decline since the repeal of its sanctuary status in 1978. The author has not provided any details regarding this assertion. There are various other factors which could have caused the decline in the specie's population. For example: may be the climate changes over the years would have been responsible for the population decline. The author's premises, the basis of his argument, lack any legitimate evidentiary support, wich renders its consequences unacceptable.
Further the author has compared the situation in West Lansburg to the one in Eastern Carpenteria without any common link. The species in both situations are diffrent. Even if, for once, we accept that the the delcline in population of sea otter attributes to the road development, we cannot just simply assume that similar affect would be seen on the tufted groundhound beacause they are very different species. They would have entirely different response to stimulae. Therefore, without any explication of link between the decline in sea otter and similar expectation for the tufted groundhounf, we cannot acceot this assumtion.
In sum, the author must provide legitimate evidence for his premises and assumptions to bolster his argument. For example he can provide the details for reasons which actually caused the decline of the sea otter, he should prove the link between the two species to justify why the response to stimulea would be same for both of them. By doing so the author would be in a better position to change his reader's mind and logically assert that the West Lansburg council should not allow the road to be built. However, at present, with unsubstantiated premises and assumpmtions, this claim with illogical anology, would only convince few readers.
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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: 6 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 25 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 443 350
No. of Characters: 2275 1500
No. of Different Words: 209 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.588 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.135 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.688 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 179 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 141 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 92 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 48 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.15 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.617 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.55 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.331 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.489 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.106 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 188, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'regions'' or 'region's'?
Suggestion: regions'; region's
...ent interests, in order to preserve the regions biodiversity and ensure a healthy envir...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 263, Rule ID: DOES_X_HAS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'make'? As 'do' is already inflected, the verb cannot also be inflected.
Suggestion: make
...refering it to ancient records does not makes the claim valid. Secondly, the author a...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 263, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[3]
Message: The verb 'does' requires base form of the verb: 'make'
Suggestion: make
...refering it to ancient records does not makes the claim valid. Secondly, the author a...
^^^^^
Line 3, column 732, Rule ID: AGREEMENT_SENT_START[1]
Message: You should probably use 'premise'.
Suggestion: premise
...for the population decline. The authors premises, the basis of his argument, lack any le...
^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 202, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...rent. Even if, for once, we accept that the the delcline in population of sea otter att...
^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 202, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...rent. Even if, for once, we accept that the the delcline in population of sea otter att...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, firstly, however, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, therefore, well, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 10.0 19.6327345309 51% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 17.0 12.9520958084 131% => OK
Conjunction : 7.0 11.1786427146 63% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 52.0 55.5748502994 94% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 16.3942115768 146% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2329.0 2260.96107784 103% => OK
No of words: 443.0 441.139720559 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25733634312 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58776254615 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78520546178 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 204.123752495 107% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.492099322799 0.468620217663 105% => OK
syllable_count: 721.8 705.55239521 102% => 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: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.8473053892 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 60.7914467668 57.8364921388 105% => OK
Chars per sentence: 116.45 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.15 23.324526521 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.8 5.70786347227 102% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.135366760894 0.218282227539 62% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0433378506805 0.0743258471296 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0445532997906 0.0701772020484 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0858054951237 0.128457276422 67% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0181321225806 0.0628817314937 29% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 14.3799401198 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 49.15 48.3550499002 102% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.23 12.5979740519 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.22 8.32208582834 111% => OK
difficult_words: 126.0 98.500998004 128% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 19.0 12.3882235529 153% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.1389221557 97% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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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