The following appeared as a letter to the editor from a citizen to Preston County It has been observed over the past three years that the reports of damage and destruction of public property have steadily increased in Preston County At the same time it ha

The argument starts by stating that damage and destruction of public property has steadily increased over the past three years in Preston County. The author has concluded that increase in migration of out-of-state travellers has led to increase in damage and destruction of public property. He has directly jumped to an optimistic conclusion on the basis of false assumptions. It is not mentioned anywhere that the damage to public property has increased because of out-of-state migrants.

It can be true that sudden increase in out-of-state migrants over the past few years may have lead to an significant increase in population. But, it cannot be inferred that these migrants are responsible for increased incidences of vandalism. There can be other factors leading to increase in damage of public property in Preston County.

The increase in migration of out-of-state travelers in Preston County may be due to better employment opportunities than in other states. Lessening the number of migrants in Preston County can lead to an increase in unemployment rate of the country. The author has given a suggestion to take firm steps to lessen the number of out-of-state migrants but, he has not considered the impact of those steps in the long run. He has done nothing but to jump to a conclusion on the basis of any irrelevant assumption.

Reestablishment of civic order in Preston County can be done by increasing law enforcement and tightening security. Lessening the number of migrants cannot help to reduce damage to public property. Crime rate of Preston County can be significantly high because of which, there have been increased incidences of vandalism. The county gevernment should look into the security measures first rather than considering author's suggestion.

The author has not provided any proofs or evidences to the claims he has made in the argument. So, his argument cannot be considered to be true. Also, increase in migration rate cannot increase crime rate of Preston County. The county government should consider implementing tighter security measures first. The decrease in employment rate due to the suggestions made by author can lead to economic decline of the country.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 103, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'a' instead of 'an' if the following word doesn't start with a vowel sound, e.g. 'a sentence', 'a university'
Suggestion: a
...ver the past few years may have lead to an significant increase in population. But...
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Line 11, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...to economic decline of the country.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, look, may, so

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 11.0 19.6327345309 56% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 6.0 13.6137724551 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 15.0 28.8173652695 52% => OK
Preposition: 75.0 55.5748502994 135% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1865.0 2260.96107784 82% => OK
No of words: 352.0 441.139720559 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.29829545455 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33147354134 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98593330708 2.78398813304 107% => OK
Unique words: 150.0 204.123752495 73% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.426136363636 0.468620217663 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 584.1 705.55239521 83% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59920159681 106% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 4.96107784431 141% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 0.0 4.22255489022 0% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 19.7664670659 101% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 27.8231468386 57.8364921388 48% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 93.25 119.503703932 78% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6 23.324526521 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.75 5.70786347227 31% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 8.20758483034 122% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.88822355289 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.67664670659 43% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.26719316595 0.218282227539 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0959565244176 0.0743258471296 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0953080331643 0.0701772020484 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.171609420802 0.128457276422 134% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0724100649193 0.0628817314937 115% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.3 14.3799401198 86% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 45.76 48.3550499002 95% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.16 12.5979740519 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.62 8.32208582834 92% => OK
difficult_words: 70.0 98.500998004 71% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => OK
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 3 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 20 15
No. of Words: 352 350
No. of Characters: 1817 1500
No. of Different Words: 148 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.331 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.162 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.942 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 149 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 106 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 89 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 52 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.6 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.024 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.45 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.359 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.549 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.128 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5