In the Bayhead Public Library, books that are rarely borrowed continue to take up shelf space year after year, while people who want to read a recent novel frequently find that the library's only copy is checked out. Clearly, the library's plan to replace books that are borrowed no more than once a year with sufficient copies of more recent books will solve this problem. The protest we have heard since this plan was made public has come from a small, and thus unrepresentative, group of some thirty people and so should therefore be ignored.
The given argument states that a sufficient number of recent novels are not available in the Bayhead Public Library, whereas the number of books that are rarely borrowed is quite high and they take up a lot of shelf space. The arguer draws the conclusion that replacing books that are borrowed rarely in the Bayhead Public Library with sufficient copies of more recent books is a solution to the problem that recent novels are unavailable for the readers. The first reading of the given argument sounds quite convincing, but a subsequent careful reading leads to the identification of several flaws that make the argument sound unconvincing. These flaws have been discussed in the succeeding paragraphs.
The argument fails to draw a relation between the two different problems being faced by the Bayhead Public Library. The first problem is that there is insufficient shelf space in the library and the second problem is that there are a less number of recent novels and so sometimes readers find that the only copy of a recent novel has been issued out. The argument fails to convince the reader that both these problems can have a common solution. Buying additional copies of recent novels may be a good solution to the second problem, but replacing the books that are rarely borrowed cannot be termed as a suitable solution to the problem of insufficient shelf space. The reason for this is that a library should house a large variety of books. A library cannot cater only to a small section of society who read popular novels. It has to keep in mind the requirements of the entire society as a whole.
The very fact that a section comprising of 30 people have protested to the proposed solution proves the fact that the books are indeed in demand and it would be a grave mistake to remove them from the library. Also, there is likelihood that there may be more people who are not open to the solution that has been proposed but they are not vocal in their protests. Therefore, it is quite likely that these 30 people may succeed in initiating a mass protest once the proposal is actually implemented leading to a loss of reputation for the Bayhead Public Library. Therefore, one cannot afford to ignore the protests being made by these 30 people.
Moreover, the arguer has not considered other options for increasing shelf space like buying new shelves or constructing an additional room or shelf in the library premises. In the absence of a discussion on the feasibility of implementing such a construction, the given solution fails to sound convincing. Additionally, the arguer could have explored other options like replacing books that have not been borrowed for the last decade or more instead of the proposed one year. There could also have been a mention of removing additional copies of books that are not borrowed frequently and leave some copies of the same for people who may need them at some time or the other. This would have also laid the protests made the 30 people to rest. In the absence of such strong evidence the claim made by the argument is very weak and hence the argument fails to convince a reader.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 457, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...novels are unavailable for the readers. The first reading of the given argument sou...
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Line 4, column 352, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... of a recent novel has been issued out. The argument fails to convince the reader t...
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Line 7, column 30, Rule ID: COMPRISING_OF[1]
Message: Did you mean 'comprising' or 'consisting of'?
Suggestion: comprising; consisting of
...hole. The very fact that a section comprising of 30 people have protested to the propose...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, first, hence, if, may, moreover, second, so, therefore, whereas, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.6327345309 158% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 11.1786427146 116% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 13.6137724551 162% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 28.8173652695 115% => OK
Preposition: 61.0 55.5748502994 110% => OK
Nominalization: 24.0 16.3942115768 146% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2603.0 2260.96107784 115% => OK
No of words: 542.0 441.139720559 123% => OK
Chars per words: 4.80258302583 5.12650576532 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82502781895 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5557155347 2.78398813304 92% => OK
Unique words: 217.0 204.123752495 106% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.40036900369 0.468620217663 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 825.3 705.55239521 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.76447105788 137% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 22.8473053892 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.5594179206 57.8364921388 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 123.952380952 119.503703932 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.8095238095 23.324526521 111% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.33333333333 5.70786347227 76% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 6.88822355289 203% => Less negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.286134016054 0.218282227539 131% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.079369180196 0.0743258471296 107% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0795477175455 0.0701772020484 113% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.176113712776 0.128457276422 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0764515700895 0.0628817314937 122% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.1 14.3799401198 98% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.3550499002 113% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.197005988 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.86 12.5979740519 86% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.7 8.32208582834 93% => OK
difficult_words: 97.0 98.500998004 98% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 12.3882235529 145% => 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 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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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.