In an attempt to improve highway safety, Prunty County last year lowered its speed limit from 55 to 45 miles per hour on all county highways. But this effort has failed: the number of accidents has not decreased, and, based on reports by the highway patrol, many drivers are exceeding the speed limit. Prunty County should instead undertake the same kind of road improvement project that Butler County completed five years ago: increasing lane widths, resurfacing rough highways, and improving visibility at dangerous intersections. Today, major Butler County roads still have a 55 mph speed limit, yet there were 25 percent fewer reported accidents in Butler County this past year than there were five years ago.
The Author has shared his attempt to improve highway safety, in printy county by lowering the speed limit, but this effort has failed to decrease he number of accidents and in order to improve the highway safety the author wants to undertake the same kind of project that Butler county had taken five years ago. The argument seems genuine at first, however it includes some underlying assumptions which are questionable and render the argument spurious disproven.
First of all the author states the attempt taken to improve safety was to lower the speed limit from 55 to 45mph but it the effort failed, the failed effort above is not being supported by any emperical data provided by high survilance authority or the data management team of prunty county, After all the statement seems to be blatantly made without scrutinizing the actual data available without Highway authorities and lindly assuming that accidents have not decreased and author need to compare data of atleast 2-3 years in order to come to a conclusion.
Secondly, the author states that prunty bounty should undertake the same kind of project that butler county completed five years ago: increasing lane widths, resurfacing rough highways, and improvong visibility at damgerous intersections, but author fails to prove that prunty and butler bounty are similar such that in terms of traffic and percentage of accidents due to speed and due to short width of lanes, the butler county might have done the project because of increased traffic in butler county, thus aithor fails to show the similarities or comparisons between the
Butler and prunty bounty.
Going on, the author states that the accidents in butler have decreased after five years of project and the speed limit is maintained to 55mph, over here authors directly tries to some the comparison in percentages and not the numbers, there can be such a case that the accidents after 25% reduction in them might be more that what prunty bounty faces each year and the fact that speed limit might have reduced from 65mph or any higher value to 55mph thus fails to consider these facts into consideration
The author has assumed the enter scenario in a negative manner without scrutinizing the parameters in the situation and also undermines the fact that Butler county reported 25% reduction in number of cases after five years when the project was ready, thus the author author did not take into account any alternate solution.
The above assumptions undermine the authors argument brought up in the memo, Had the author considered better alternatives to their issue or situatuion and explicitly stated the memo itself , the argument would have been infallible.
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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: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 9 15
No. of Words: 443 350
No. of Characters: 2215 1500
No. of Different Words: 210 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.588 4.7
Average Word Length: 5 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.495 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 165 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 103 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 71 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 53 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 49.222 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 28.177 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.778 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.427 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.8 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.121 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 6 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 574, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... similarities or comparisons between the Butler and prunty bounty. Going on, t...
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Line 10, column 24, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...consideration The author has assumed the enter scenario in a negative manner without s...
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Line 10, column 43, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "in a negative manner" with adverb for "negative"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...e author has assumed the enter scenario in a negative manner without scrutinizing the parameters in ...
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Line 10, column 261, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: author
...rs when the project was ready, thus the author author did not take into account any alternate...
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Line 12, column 37, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'authors'' or 'author's'?
Suggestion: authors'; author's
... The above assumptions undermine the authors argument brought up in the memo, Had th...
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Line 12, column 190, Rule ID: COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE
Message: Put a space after the comma, but not before the comma
Suggestion: ,
...on and explicitly stated the memo itself , the argument would have been infallible...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, second, secondly, so, thus, after all, as to, kind of, first of all
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: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 21.0 11.1786427146 188% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 20.0 28.8173652695 69% => OK
Preposition: 66.0 55.5748502994 119% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2263.0 2260.96107784 100% => OK
No of words: 443.0 441.139720559 100% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10835214447 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.58776254615 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53267242894 2.78398813304 91% => OK
Unique words: 213.0 204.123752495 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.480812641084 0.468620217663 103% => OK
syllable_count: 699.3 705.55239521 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 4.96107784431 0% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.76447105788 103% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 6.0 19.7664670659 30% => 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: 73.0 22.8473053892 320% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 236.583083832 57.8364921388 409% => The lengths of sentences changed so frequently.
Chars per sentence: 377.166666667 119.503703932 316% => Less chars_per_sentence wanted.
Words per sentence: 73.8333333333 23.324526521 317% => Less words per sentence wanted.
Discourse Markers: 15.6666666667 5.70786347227 274% => Less transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 7.0 5.15768463074 136% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 1.0 8.20758483034 12% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 6.88822355289 73% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.67664670659 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.250882923236 0.218282227539 115% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.137828697245 0.0743258471296 185% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.138409193597 0.0701772020484 197% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.12240207377 0.128457276422 95% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.100888638033 0.0628817314937 160% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 39.6 14.3799401198 275% => Automated_readability_index is high.
flesch_reading_ease: -2.62 48.3550499002 -5% => Flesch_reading_ease is low.
smog_index: 13.0 7.1628742515 181% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 31.8 12.197005988 261% => Flesch kincaid grade is high.
coleman_liau_index: 13.54 12.5979740519 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 10.96 8.32208582834 132% => OK
difficult_words: 104.0 98.500998004 106% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 17.0 12.3882235529 137% => OK
gunning_fog: 31.2 11.1389221557 280% => Gunning_fog is high.
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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