"All students should be required to take the driver's education course at Centerville High School. In the past two years, several accidents in and around Centerville have involved teenage drivers. Since a number of parents in Centerville have complained that they are too busy to teach their teenagers to drive, some other instruction is necessary to ensure that these teenagers are safe drivers. Although there are two driving schools in Centerville, parents on a tight budget cannot afford to pay for driving instruction. Therefore an effective and mandatory program sponsored by the high school is the only solution to this serious problem."
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The argument presented by the author seems to be convincing at first. But upon looking into it more carefully, it is evident that the argument stated by the author is rife with holes and assumptions. Thus, these assumptions must be taken into consideration before drawing any conclusion.
Firstly, it is stated that in the past two years, there have been several accidents which involve teenagers. This is one of the reasons the author has based his/her conclusion upon. Here, the statement is very narrow and some points need to be considered. Several teenagers does not mean there were a large number of teenagers involved in the accident as it does not give any significant numeric figure. Also, the teenagers involved in the accident might not be at fault for causing the same. Apart from this, the accidents which do not involve teenagers at all might be very much greater than those which involve teenagers.
Moving forward the author also states that the parents of the teenagers are very busy to teach them driving. This does not mean that the teenagers cannot learn driving if not taught by their parents. There may be many people in Centerville who might be willing to teach the teenagers how to drive. All the teenagers might have friends of their own who might be willing to teach them driving. Thus, just because the parents are busy, we cannot come to the conclusion that there is a need for a driving education course.
Also, the author mentions that the two driving schools which are already present are not budget-friendly. Again, it is not mentioned anywhere regarding the number of parents who have a tight budget. There may be very few parents who cannot afford those driving schools while others may not have any problem with bearing the cost of the driving school for a safe and well instructed driving course.
It is also mentioned that due to these various problems, the high school should sponsor a driving program. It is nowhere mentioned what is the cost of setting up the entire program. If the cost of the program is very high then the high school may not be willing to make efforts and put in money to set up the program. Instead, they could use that money somewhere else where it is more required.
Thus, it is safe to say that there are many assumptions taken by the author. These assumptions must be taken into consideration and once all of them have been correctly dealt with, the author must conclude his/her argument.
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 300, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
...eral teenagers does not mean there were a large number of teenagers involved in the accident as i...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 161, Rule ID: AFFORD_VBG[1]
Message: This verb is used with infinitive: 'to drive'.
Suggestion: to drive
...ot mean that the teenagers cannot learn driving if not taught by their parents. There m...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, look, may, regarding, so, then, thus, well, while, apart from
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.6327345309 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 28.8173652695 128% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 55.5748502994 83% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2043.0 2260.96107784 90% => OK
No of words: 426.0 441.139720559 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.79577464789 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54310108192 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4629290995 2.78398813304 88% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.441314553991 0.468620217663 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 622.8 705.55239521 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 4.96107784431 242% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.9050010941 57.8364921388 53% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 88.8260869565 119.503703932 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5217391304 23.324526521 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0 5.70786347227 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.67664670659 235% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.243180201952 0.218282227539 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0679345368288 0.0743258471296 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.055207409974 0.0701772020484 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109181652132 0.128457276422 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0622754974585 0.0628817314937 99% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 14.3799401198 72% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.3550499002 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.56 12.5979740519 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.98 8.32208582834 84% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 98.500998004 67% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 12.3882235529 52% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 7.0 11.9071856287 59% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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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 3, column 300, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
...eral teenagers does not mean there were a large number of teenagers involved in the accident as i...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 161, Rule ID: AFFORD_VBG[1]
Message: This verb is used with infinitive: 'to drive'.
Suggestion: to drive
...ot mean that the teenagers cannot learn driving if not taught by their parents. There m...
^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, firstly, if, look, may, regarding, so, then, thus, well, while, apart from
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.6327345309 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 12.9520958084 147% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 37.0 28.8173652695 128% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 46.0 55.5748502994 83% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 16.3942115768 43% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2043.0 2260.96107784 90% => OK
No of words: 426.0 441.139720559 97% => OK
Chars per words: 4.79577464789 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.54310108192 4.56307096286 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4629290995 2.78398813304 88% => OK
Unique words: 188.0 204.123752495 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.441314553991 0.468620217663 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 622.8 705.55239521 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 4.96107784431 242% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 7.0 8.76447105788 80% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 22.8473053892 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 30.9050010941 57.8364921388 53% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 88.8260869565 119.503703932 74% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.5217391304 23.324526521 79% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.0 5.70786347227 70% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 5.15768463074 116% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 11.0 4.67664670659 235% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.243180201952 0.218282227539 111% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0679345368288 0.0743258471296 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.055207409974 0.0701772020484 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.109181652132 0.128457276422 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0622754974585 0.0628817314937 99% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.4 14.3799401198 72% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 61.67 48.3550499002 128% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 12.197005988 75% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.56 12.5979740519 84% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.98 8.32208582834 84% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 98.500998004 67% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 12.3882235529 52% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.1389221557 83% => OK
text_standard: 7.0 11.9071856287 59% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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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.