In surveys Mason City residents rank water sports (swimming, boating, and fishing) among their favorite recreational activities. The Mason River flowing through the city is rarely used for these pursuits, however, and the city park department devotes little of its budget to maintaining riverside recreational facilities. For years there have been complaints from residents about the quality of the river's water and the river's smell. In response, the state has recently announced plans to clean up Mason River. Use of the river for water sports is, therefore, sure to increase. The city government should for that reason devote more money in this year's budget to riverside recreational facilities.
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.
From the survey of Manson city, it is stated, that for the increment of the water sports like swimming, boating, and fishing": government should devote more money to riverside area for the recreational activities, as it is said, it has announced plans to clean up Mason River. They have come to this conclusion after the survey, which was done among Residents of mason city. Although the cited evidence seems logical, but the assumption on which conclusions relies do not lend credible support to the argument, so before this recommendation can be properly evaluated, three questions must be answered.
firstly, what, if, the number of people surveyed are not representative group? In simple terms, may be the people who are only interested on water sports are surveyed: It is possible that people who are interested on other sports besides water sports are not surveyed - perhaps, if this true, the result may be different. if the either of these scenarios has merit, then the conclusion drawn in the original argument is significantly undermined.
In addition to this, are the questions of survey program are related to other sports than water sports? In other words, the questions may be related to only water sports (swimming, boating, and fishing); Without knowing about the questionnaire, it cannot be assumed that many people are keen on water sports only. May be people cannot answer about the other sports due to the question of survey, which may only relate to water sports. If the above is true, the argument does not hold water.
Lastly, by announcing the plan to clean the river, will it be sure that this plan will be effectively carried out. Simply, it is only plan, which is not, ye, carried out, so it would be presumptuous, to devote money in the riverside area by assuming the increment in water sports after cleaning of the river. This may not happen, as it has been said. Hence, there is no evidence for the aforementioned question, which eventually weakens the author's claim.
In a conclusion, the argument, as it is stands, now, is considerably flawed due to its reliance on several unwarranted assumptions. if the author is able to answer the three questions above and offer more evidence (perhaps in the form of a systematic research study), then it will be possible to evaluate the validity of the proposed recommendation to devote money to the riverside area .
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Comments
Essay evaluations by e-grader
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Firstly
...d, three questions must be answered. firstly, what, if, the number of people surveye...
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Line 3, column 323, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...this true, the result may be different. if the either of these scenarios has merit...
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Line 9, column 133, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...nce on several unwarranted assumptions. if the author is able to answer the three ...
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Line 9, column 385, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...on to devote money to the riverside area .
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, first, firstly, hence, if, lastly, may, so, then, in addition, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.6327345309 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1998.0 2260.96107784 88% => OK
No of words: 401.0 441.139720559 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.9825436409 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47492842339 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78167424046 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 204.123752495 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.483790523691 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 617.4 705.55239521 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 2.70958083832 295% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 72.3554323721 57.8364921388 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.875 119.503703932 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0625 23.324526521 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.6875 5.70786347227 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.142072703998 0.218282227539 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.052262981171 0.0743258471296 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0498804524722 0.0701772020484 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0821505406454 0.128457276422 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0486108872779 0.0628817314937 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.3550499002 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.9 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 98.500998004 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 12.3882235529 149% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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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 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Firstly
...d, three questions must be answered. firstly, what, if, the number of people surveye...
^^^^^^^
Line 3, column 323, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...this true, the result may be different. if the either of these scenarios has merit...
^^
Line 9, column 133, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: If
...nce on several unwarranted assumptions. if the author is able to answer the three ...
^^
Line 9, column 385, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Don't put a space before the full stop
Suggestion: .
...on to devote money to the riverside area .
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
besides, but, first, firstly, hence, if, lastly, may, so, then, in addition, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.6327345309 163% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.9520958084 116% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 11.0 13.6137724551 81% => OK
Pronoun: 24.0 28.8173652695 83% => OK
Preposition: 55.0 55.5748502994 99% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1998.0 2260.96107784 88% => OK
No of words: 401.0 441.139720559 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.9825436409 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.47492842339 4.56307096286 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78167424046 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 194.0 204.123752495 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.483790523691 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 617.4 705.55239521 88% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 5.0 8.76447105788 57% => OK
Subordination: 8.0 2.70958083832 295% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.22255489022 189% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 72.3554323721 57.8364921388 125% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.875 119.503703932 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.0625 23.324526521 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.6875 5.70786347227 100% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.25449101796 76% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 8.20758483034 110% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.142072703998 0.218282227539 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.052262981171 0.0743258471296 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0498804524722 0.0701772020484 71% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0821505406454 0.128457276422 64% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0486108872779 0.0628817314937 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.6 14.3799401198 102% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.3550499002 113% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.9 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.34 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 88.0 98.500998004 89% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.5 12.3882235529 149% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.1389221557 108% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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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.