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.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The argument claims about the current highway safety problems that Prunty country is facing and the failed step that were took to improve this situation. As an step, lowering speed limit was considered to be effective in Prunty country but it did not work out as expected. The author suggests that Prunty country should follow similar road improvement project as Butler country to solve this major problem. There are some major evidences missing in this argument which makes it flawed.
The argument avers that five years old plan of Butler country will work for today's Prunty country. Is this based on any evidence? Have there any research done with both this countries to match the compatibility? These two countries can be completely opposite of each other. Perhaps Butler country is a well-developed country whereas Prunty is not as developed as Butler. Perhaps Butler country had invested a high amount of their national budget for conditioning their roads which Prunty country cannot afford. Also, is is applicable for today's Prunty country? The steps took to improve situations of Butler country was five years old, there might be even better road plans now. So, there are a lot more evidences required to validate the argument.
Secondly, the argument says that Prunty country has lowered their speed limit but many drivers still exceeding the speed limits. That clearly shows that the speed limiting step is not working properly as the rule is not obeyed by the drivers of Prunty country. Perhaps, making their traffic control system can decrease the number of accidents in Prunty country, perhaps following Butler country's expensive road improvement project is not needed at all to make the roads safe in Prunty country. Making sure that every driver follows the rule established in Prunty county could probably make the number of accidents lower as well as save a lot of money of the country.
Thirdly, the argument says that Butler country's last year's accident record are 25 percent lower that five years old records. Perhaps just the year before the last year's records were actually higher that five years older one's. Probably, last year there were fewer vehicles on the roads. The argument also says that only major roads follow the 55 miles speed limit; perhaps there are fewer major roads in Butler country than Prunty country. All these evidences are needed to know the real situations of Butler country and Prunty country. If the evidences are not good enough, the argument is undermined.
The argument, as it stands now, is flawed. There are a lot of evidences needed to strengthen the argument. If any one of these evidences are not clear, the whole argument becomes absurd.
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Essay evaluation 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: 25 15
No. of Words: 447 350
No. of Characters: 2211 1500
No. of Different Words: 206 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.598 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.946 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.281 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 173 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 114 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 62 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 31 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 17.88 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 7.458 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.44 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.342 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.513 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.126 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 123, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'taken'.
Suggestion: taken
...is facing and the failed step that were took to improve this situation. As an step, ...
^^^^
Line 1, column 158, 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
...were took to improve this situation. As an step, lowering speed limit was consider...
^^
Line 5, column 169, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...? Have there any research done with both this countries to match the compatibilit...
^^
Line 5, column 171, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'these'?
Suggestion: these
...Have there any research done with both this countries to match the compatibility? T...
^^^^
Line 5, column 519, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: is
...ich Prunty country cannot afford. Also, is is applicable for todays Prunty country? T...
^^^^^
Line 9, column 621, Rule ID: COMP_THAN[3]
Message: Comparison requires 'than', not 'then' nor 'as'.
Suggestion: than
...ably make the number of accidents lower as well as save a lot of money of the coun...
^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, if, second, secondly, so, still, then, third, thirdly, well, whereas, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.6327345309 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.9520958084 54% => OK
Conjunction : 4.0 11.1786427146 36% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 55.5748502994 65% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2268.0 2260.96107784 100% => OK
No of words: 447.0 441.139720559 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.07382550336 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.59808378696 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.34631358817 2.78398813304 84% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 204.123752495 102% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.467561521253 0.468620217663 100% => OK
syllable_count: 691.2 705.55239521 98% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
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: 26.0 19.7664670659 132% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.8949464085 57.8364921388 78% => OK
Chars per sentence: 87.2307692308 119.503703932 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.1923076923 23.324526521 74% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.88461538462 5.70786347227 68% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 6.0 5.25449101796 114% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.67664670659 214% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.172541618766 0.218282227539 79% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0551355969701 0.0743258471296 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0429991740723 0.0701772020484 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.102206267628 0.128457276422 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0629459875254 0.0628817314937 100% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.0 14.3799401198 76% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 62.68 48.3550499002 130% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.7 12.197005988 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.83 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.76 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 12.3882235529 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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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