The author has come to the conclusion that switching all the lights from incandescent bulbs to LED bulbs would save money on electric cost based on an extremely weak premise.
There is very little information taken into consideration to assess if they switching of lights from incandescent to LED would result in the saving on money.
First of all, the author could have provided more background information as to how they came to the decision that switching lights would help save money. Why only lights? Why not other appliances? If the lights that are currently being used are more efficient than the fans that are being used currently, it would make sense if we spent money and effort into the switching of fans rather than lights. The author should have provided data as to why the city council decided to switch light bulbs and not any other appliances.
Secondly, the largest leap in the argument is based on a premise with no base whatsoever. the city council decided to switch to LED lights because of two reasons alone. Reason one being LED lights burnt brighter. Now this information is extremely vague and does not provide insight into how bright it will be. We need to know how bright the LED will be in order to guarantee the upgrade is worth all the money spent on switching from incandescent to LED. What if it is too bright? What if it can harm the eyes? Proper study has to be done in this regard. The second reason is LED bulbs cost “no more”. Simply stating that the LED costs no more is not adequate to come to the conclusion that switching would save money. The author has not mentioned a word about the cost of switching from one to another. If the LED bulbs costed the same, and did not provide much of an upgrade, will the money spend on switching be worth it?
The two reason stated are not enough to come to the conclusion that switching would save money. Other factors like longevity, and energy consumption of the LED bulbs should be taken into consideration. How long with the LED’s last? How often does one have to replace it? If we have to replace it more often than incandescent bulbs, then switching would make no sense and would affect Town X adversely. Question related to energy consumption like, How much energy will one bulb consume? Just because it burns brighter does not mean it will consume less energy. If it is burning brighter at the expense of more electricity, then switching to LED will result in more electrical expenses.
To conclude, the council has come to the decision that switching from incandescent lights to LED would save money without adequate study. A lot more data is required to fully assess if switching would truly help save electrical cost. If the omitted factors mentioned above like the longevity and the energy consumption and answers to the questions are taken into consideration, one can know for a fact if switching would truly be profitable for Town X or not.
While it ultimately be the case that this plan is sound and will help save money we canot rely on this argument as there are way too many unexplored variables.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.0 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 30 15
No. of Words: 547 350
No. of Characters: 2497 1500
No. of Different Words: 200 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.836 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.565 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.417 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 145 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 101 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 71 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 54 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 18.233 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 9.739 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.467 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.298 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.451 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.138 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 6, column 91, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: The
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, if, second, secondly, so, then, while, as to, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 26.0 19.6327345309 132% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 24.0 12.9520958084 185% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 30.0 28.8173652695 104% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 55.5748502994 121% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 16.3942115768 73% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2578.0 2260.96107784 114% => OK
No of words: 547.0 441.139720559 124% => OK
Chars per words: 4.71297989031 5.12650576532 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.83611736076 4.56307096286 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.5144642382 2.78398813304 90% => OK
Unique words: 215.0 204.123752495 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.393053016453 0.468620217663 84% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 792.0 705.55239521 112% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 4.96107784431 40% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 2.70958083832 221% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 31.0 19.7664670659 157% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 22.8473053892 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 53.6237518623 57.8364921388 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 83.1612903226 119.503703932 70% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.6451612903 23.324526521 76% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.09677419355 5.70786347227 37% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 7.0 5.15768463074 136% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 18.0 8.20758483034 219% => Less positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 9.0 4.67664670659 192% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.373766877957 0.218282227539 171% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.106765844486 0.0743258471296 144% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0863687579712 0.0701772020484 123% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.214695002592 0.128457276422 167% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0918525772645 0.0628817314937 146% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 9.6 14.3799401198 67% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 71.14 48.3550499002 147% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 7.6 12.197005988 62% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.74 12.5979740519 77% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.9 8.32208582834 83% => OK
difficult_words: 84.0 98.500998004 85% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 12.3882235529 69% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 11.1389221557 79% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum six paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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