The council of Maple County predicts that the housing prices will see a dramatic increase if the proposed measure passed. Hoping to prevent the county from being overdeveloped, the measure aims to restrict the supply of new housing. Based on the success in Chestnut County without increase in housing prices and the failure in Pine County where has seen a significant increase in housing prices, the council then argue that Maple County will face the same problem as Pine County if the measure passed. However, the argument is not very strong and there are some questions need to be answered.
Firstly, while it is reasonable to assume that the housing prices will increase with the restriction on the supply of new residential housing, we still need more information about the population situation in these three counties. As we know, if the population in Maple County is significantly more than that in Pine County, it would be more likely to see the increase in housing prices. Otherwise, maybe the housing prices in Maple County will not increase so much. And if the people living in Maple County are mostly the old and have little interest in buying a new house, the property prices would be more stable than predicted. Thus, we need to ask if the population in Maple County is similar to the other two counties or if it has some special features such as many old people.
Secondly, we need to ask if the farmland is an important source of new housing area. By preventing the development of existing farmland, the area suitable to new residential housing is likely to decrease. But if the farmland in Maple County only accounts for a small part of the suitable area, the supply of new housing would not see a dramatic drop. In that case, the housing prices maybe not increase and remain stable. However, if the answer to this question is that the farmland is the only source of new housing area, the housing prices would be more likely to double.
Finally, the question about the overall economic development in these counties need to be answered. As we all know, the housing prices is not only related to the population size or the proportion of land. The whole development of the county also plays an important role in housing prices. If the economy in Maple County is more likely to decrease in the next 5 years, the young generation may remove to big cities to find job opportunities which may lead the housing prices in Maple County to decrease. And if the overall development in Pine County was quite good in the past few years, it would be reasonable to see the increase in the housing prices.
Overall speaking, it is not wise to make the argument that the housing prices in Maple County will increase just based on the two facts that happened in other counties. If we want to make the argument more strong and more convincing, we need find the answers to these questions mentioned above. And then, we can predict what will happen if the measure passed.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 2 2
No. of Sentences: 22 15
No. of Words: 520 350
No. of Characters: 2398 1500
No. of Different Words: 189 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.775 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.612 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.415 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 178 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 117 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 74 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 30 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.636 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.188 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.773 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.395 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.566 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.2 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, firstly, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, then, thus, while, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 20.0 12.9520958084 154% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 13.6137724551 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 55.5748502994 121% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 16.3942115768 110% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2459.0 2260.96107784 109% => OK
No of words: 520.0 441.139720559 118% => OK
Chars per words: 4.72884615385 5.12650576532 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77530192783 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.49136897683 2.78398813304 89% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 204.123752495 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.373076923077 0.468620217663 80% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 774.9 705.55239521 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 13.0 8.76447105788 148% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 2.70958083832 258% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 19.7664670659 111% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.7988999213 57.8364921388 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.772727273 119.503703932 94% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.6363636364 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.95454545455 5.70786347227 87% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 8.20758483034 158% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.281633153522 0.218282227539 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.10549862885 0.0743258471296 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0776876485405 0.0701772020484 111% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.180537077323 0.128457276422 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0861005158382 0.0628817314937 137% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 14.3799401198 88% => 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: 10.45 12.5979740519 83% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.3 8.32208582834 88% => OK
difficult_words: 83.0 98.500998004 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 13.0 12.3882235529 105% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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