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 argument that prunty county should emulate the road improvements that increase lane widths resurfaces rough highways, and improves visibility at dangerous intersections that are flowed. In this argument, the author not only draws a conclusion from a vague and ambiguous term, but also uses a limited sample for making a sweeping generalization statement for the entire population. Furthermore, the author make the argument just focusing on the road improvements which can be a factor to decrease the number of accidents, while ignoring the percentage of accidents by county’s population and other factors.
To begin with, the author draws a conclusion with a perception that sets a speed limit is useless for decreasing the number of accidents. In order to strengthen his argument, he states that the county government lower the speed limit fail to decrease the chance of accidents. The main reason why it did not give a better result is that drivers are still over speeding on the highway. however, the author doesn’t mention how the government informed its resident of the change of speed limits and how to punish those drivers who drove the autos exceeding the speed limits. The author fails to persuade the readers how the government enforced the speed limit. Instead, he just blames on the quality of infrastructure. Since the author fails to provide more details on government operations on enforcing the newest policy and whether the local residents know the change of speed limit, this point of a conclusion is not sufficient.
Secondly, the author states a series of number regarding to other county as a comparison. For making his point of argument, he tells the accident number is getting lower through the last five years while ignoring the basic demographic information about that county. The author should tell the readers more about the population change in both prunty county and bulter county for the past five years. it could be a possibility of fewer accidents that the entire population of bulter county is decreasing. Besides, the author just mentioned the major roads in bulter county but not all highways, which is a selection sample error that cause this argument not that credible. while the author ignores the points of population change and selects wrong samples, this argument is not accurate.
In conclusion, the author could strengthen the argument by providing more details on the operation of government to its residents, comparing county’s population change, and the non-major roads’ speed limit. As it stands, however, the argument is flawed by the reason indicated.
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e-rater score report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 7 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 5 2
No. of Sentences: 15 15
No. of Words: 422 350
No. of Characters: 2141 1500
No. of Different Words: 187 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.532 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.073 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.664 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 170 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 109 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 85 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 55 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 28.133 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 12.214 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.6 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.382 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.57 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.158 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...unty’s population and other factors. To begin with, the author draws a conclu...
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Line 5, column 385, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: However
...are still over speeding on the highway. however, the author doesn’t mention how the gov...
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Line 7, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...t of a conclusion is not sufficient. Secondly, the author states a series of ...
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Line 9, column 400, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
... bulter county for the past five years. it could be a possibility of fewer acciden...
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Line 9, column 672, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: While
... cause this argument not that credible. while the author ignores the points of popula...
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Line 11, column 1, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ples, this argument is not accurate. In conclusion, the author could strength...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, but, furthermore, however, regarding, second, secondly, so, still, then, while, in conclusion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 19.6327345309 61% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 12.9520958084 39% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 13.6137724551 95% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 49.0 55.5748502994 88% => OK
Nominalization: 27.0 16.3942115768 165% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2213.0 2260.96107784 98% => OK
No of words: 421.0 441.139720559 95% => OK
Chars per words: 5.25653206651 5.12650576532 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.52971130743 4.56307096286 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.78323787628 2.78398813304 100% => OK
Unique words: 196.0 204.123752495 96% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.465558194774 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 669.6 705.55239521 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 4.96107784431 121% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.3149317667 57.8364921388 89% => OK
Chars per sentence: 122.944444444 119.503703932 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3888888889 23.324526521 100% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.83333333333 5.70786347227 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 15.0 6.88822355289 218% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.67664670659 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.233071920891 0.218282227539 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0777191388407 0.0743258471296 105% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0390414421614 0.0701772020484 56% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.137370169583 0.128457276422 107% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0371341260307 0.0628817314937 59% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.0 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 12.5979740519 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.57 8.32208582834 103% => OK
difficult_words: 101.0 98.500998004 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.9071856287 126% => OK
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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