"Commuters complain that increased rush-hour traffic on Blue Highway between the suburbs and the city center has doubled their commuting time. The favored proposal of the motorists' lobby is to widen the highway, adding an additional lane of traffic. But last year's addition of a lane to the nearby Green Highway was followed by a worsening of traffic jams on it. A better alternative is to add a bicycle lane to Blue Highway. Many area residents are keen bicyclists. A bicycle lane would encourage them to use bicycles to commute, and so would reduce rush-hour traffic rather than fostering an increase."
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.
It might seem logic, at first glance, to agree with the argument that rush-hour traffic could be mitigated by adding a bicycle lane, based on the fact that many dwellers are bicycle lovers and it is proved to be an unsuccessful practice to add an additional lane of traffic. However, in order to fully evaluate this argument, we need to have significant amount of additional evidence.
The first piece of evidence that we would need in order to evaluate the claims is information about the comparison between Blue Highway and Green Highway. It is very likely that the two lanes are not comparable at all. First of all, the terrible traffic congestions could have been caused by different reasons such as poor traffic management and road condition. If it were to turn out that the roads haven’t been maintained for a long time because of the lack of staff and workers, the additional traffic lane should not be blamed. Furthermore, the failure of Green Highway last year cannot be applied to current situation. In other words, an additional lane might be effective on Blue Highway since the government could learn valuable experience from the past by preventing the potential problems. If this is the case, the assumption that another lane of traffic would be doomed to be failure on Blue Highway would be seriously weakened.
Another piece of evidence might help us evaluate this claim involves the assumption that bicyclists are more likely to utilize bicycles as their everyday commuting methods. If we were to learn that there is no strong correlation between riding bike as a hobby and traveling to workplace towards bike, it would significantly undermine the conclusion. It could turn out to be the case, for example, there might be long distance between home and working area for a large percentage of people using Blue Highway so it is unreasonable for them to ride between two spots. To be specific, compared with riding, driving may diminish the commuting time by more than 50 percent, and then people are more likely to persist on their old driving habits no matter how much they are keen to ride. For another aspect, whether it is suitable for riding largely depends on other peripheral ingredients such as weather condition. Would people still stick to bicycle if it is a rainy day? All in all, the speculation that a bicycle lane will no doubt encourage people travel by bike would be far-fetched if the cases discussed before happened.
Clearly, then, we need to have additional evidence in order to get a more complete understanding of what could be the most effective method to resolve the heavy traffic jams on Blue Highway. Though it might be useful to add a bicycle lane, the validity of this proposal should base on other evidence including people’s willingness to commute by bike on a daily basis and the applicability of the past experience of building up a new traffic lane on Green Highway.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.0 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 18 15
No. of Words: 498 350
No. of Characters: 2375 1500
No. of Different Words: 237 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.724 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.769 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.614 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 164 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 133 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 81 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 51 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.667 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.781 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.833 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.318 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.483 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.135 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 241, Rule ID: ADD_AN_ADDITIONAL[1]
Message: This phrase might be redundant. Use simply 'add a lane'.
Suggestion: add a lane
...roved to be an unsuccessful practice to add an additional lane of traffic. However, in order to fully ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Line 5, column 146, Rule ID: EVERYDAY_EVERY_DAY[3]
Message: 'Everyday' is an adjective. Did you mean 'every day'?
Suggestion: every day
...ore likely to utilize bicycles as their everyday commuting methods. If we were to learn ...
^^^^^^^^
Line 7, column 402, Rule ID: PAST_EXPERIENCE_MEMORY[1]
Message: Use simply 'experience'.
Suggestion: experience
...aily basis and the applicability of the past experience of building up a new traffic lane on Gr...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, furthermore, however, if, may, so, still, then, well, for example, no doubt, such as, first of all, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.6327345309 158% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 24.0 12.9520958084 185% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 32.0 28.8173652695 111% => OK
Preposition: 74.0 55.5748502994 133% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2437.0 2260.96107784 108% => OK
No of words: 497.0 441.139720559 113% => OK
Chars per words: 4.90342052314 5.12650576532 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.72159896747 4.56307096286 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.70953177748 2.78398813304 97% => OK
Unique words: 237.0 204.123752495 116% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.476861167002 0.468620217663 102% => OK
syllable_count: 774.9 705.55239521 110% => 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: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.67365269461 60% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.22255489022 118% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 18.0 19.7664670659 91% => OK
Sentence length: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.4586691184 57.8364921388 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 135.388888889 119.503703932 113% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.6111111111 23.324526521 118% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.72222222222 5.70786347227 118% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.67664670659 86% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.213122581542 0.218282227539 98% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0692591649822 0.0743258471296 93% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0480334645928 0.0701772020484 68% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.14673734621 0.128457276422 114% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0373691489661 0.0628817314937 59% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 14.3799401198 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.3550499002 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.44 12.5979740519 91% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.31 8.32208582834 100% => OK
difficult_words: 105.0 98.500998004 107% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 12.3882235529 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.9071856287 76% => 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
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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.