The business district of downtown Laughton is thriving during the weekdays but
is virtually uninhabited during the weekends. As a result, many of the shops and
restaurants close during this time, though the proprietors must still pay rent. Since
many such businesses have struggled over the last year, the mayor of Laughton
has proposed that a nearby, abandoned twenty-acre plot of land that houses a few
dilapidated warehouses be converted into a park. Once completed, the park will serve
as a weekend attraction for many families living in Laughton. As a result, many will
frequent the restaurants and shops, thereby reinvigorating these struggling businesses.
Write a response in which you examine the stated and/or unstated assumptions of the
argument. Be sure to explain how the argument depends on these assumptions and what
the implications are for the argument if the assumptions prove unwarranted.
The mayor idea is really interesting, a new park will make the town more alive but it is based on a certain interpretation that the businesses suffer from weekend and that establishing the park would reinvigorate the town, but would it?
First of all, the reason that businesses are not lively at the weekends as they within the weekday it might be referred to the idea that business owner might want to rest within weekend. Not all the businesses need to be open within weekends. Some of them it is not efficient at all to make the business run during the weekends such that the expenses could be more than the revenues.
A second reason to consider this plan frugal is that the mayor considered the weekend days the businesses pay rent for is the reason for the bad economical situation they suffer rather than studying this problem more seriously and providing real solutions. It is more than usual to have days more productive that other, and it is also common to close the business when it is better financially than opening these business, what they really need to overcome their financial problems is by reducing the taxes on them, increasing the number of investors, and etc.
A third reason that weaken this plan is that most people when they go to the park take their food with them like sandwiches or light snakes; park is a place to breathe fresh clean air and to feel natural, it does not make sense to go and have cheesy burger after jogging in the park for example. In other words park it might not be helpful in increase the number of consumers of these businesses. In the contrary it might increase the number of businesses near this park make the situation more competitive.
The park as described in the argument is great solution that will make the financial issues these businesses have disappears, but it cannot do any of that unless there are more details accompanied by the park to make weekend more productive such that these businesses can really consider opening in weekends.
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Comments
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: 10 15
No. of Words: 352 350
No. of Characters: 1628 1500
No. of Different Words: 160 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.331 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.625 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.447 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 100 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 70 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 55 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 33 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 35.2 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 15.689 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.7 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.432 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.731 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.207 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 148, Rule ID: ECONOMICAL_ECONOMIC[1]
Message: Did you mean 'economic' (=connected with economy)?
Suggestion: economic
... pay rent for is the reason for the bad economical situation they suffer rather than study...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 555, Rule ID: AND_ETC[1]
Message: Use simply 'etc.'.
Suggestion: etc.
...em, increasing the number of investors, and etc. A third reason that weaken this plan...
^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, may, really, second, so, third, for example, first of all, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 40.0 28.8173652695 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 41.0 55.5748502994 74% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 16.3942115768 30% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1666.0 2260.96107784 74% => OK
No of words: 352.0 441.139720559 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.73295454545 5.12650576532 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33147354134 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.51400872376 2.78398813304 90% => OK
Unique words: 164.0 204.123752495 80% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.465909090909 0.468620217663 99% => OK
syllable_count: 516.6 705.55239521 73% => 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: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 2.70958083832 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 4.0 1.67365269461 239% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 10.0 19.7664670659 51% => 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: 35.0 22.8473053892 153% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 88.6785768943 57.8364921388 153% => OK
Chars per sentence: 166.6 119.503703932 139% => OK
Words per sentence: 35.2 23.324526521 151% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.1 5.70786347227 159% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.25449101796 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 6.88822355289 44% => More 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: 0.097576537853 0.218282227539 45% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0477159387091 0.0743258471296 64% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0334587254017 0.0701772020484 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0546230007784 0.128457276422 43% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0327643178631 0.0628817314937 52% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.4 14.3799401198 128% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.41 48.3550499002 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 12.197005988 130% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.75 12.5979740519 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.02 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 59.0 98.500998004 60% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 16.0 11.1389221557 144% => OK
text_standard: 16.0 11.9071856287 134% => 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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