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
The traffic jams are the daily part of our lifes. There are many ways how the traffic can be improved, however, as in medicine, each specific traffic problem needs specific prescribtion in order to cure it. Is the argument stated prone to flaws and is there any evidence we might use in order to improve it?
Specific assumptions of the stated argument would need to be analysed in order to evaluate its coherency. First of all, the argument do compare the situation on the nearby Green Highway with the one of the blue highway and according to the former example trying to discourage to add other additional line to the highway. However, there is no single explanation, according to which criteria, these two highways can be compared together. In case of the Green Highway, there might be a huge construction taking place which adding more drivers on the highway, even more than one additional line can accomodate. They could add another line on Green Highway, however, new factory built nearby saturated the highway by heavy machinery and trucks, which subsequently worsened the traffic, even after the line was added. There need to be the reason specified, why the added line on Green Highway affected negatively the traffic and why it is the case, that the highway is comparable to the the Blue Highway.
The argument mentioned, that the best alternative is to add bicycle line to the highway, because of many of the resident are riders. However, having many residents riding bike does not necessarily mean, that the line added would be succesfull. First of all, residents might use the highway primarily to get to the daily job, and the job can be far away in the center, as well as the highway itself, may be large. That means, that even when residents enjoy bike rides, they could not use bikes to get where they want. By knowing, where exaclty resident go when they use the highway might be the one of the most important factors of considering if bike use is viable.
Being more scrupulous, even the fact mentioned, that many residents are keen bicyclists can be misleading. How is this specific information obtained ? Was it obtained by the unbiased questionary by asking all the groups of residents ? Was the question in the questionary asking about the favourite sport of residents or directly if they prefer to use bike instead of car if possible ? The answers on all stated question could subsequently strenghten or weaken the argument. Residents might enjoy bike ride as a sport, but prefer to use car, or even public transport in order to get to their job. This question might been asked only one part of the neighborhood close to sport center, which was prone to use bike as part of their healthy lifestyle. The information might be only deduction of some kind, not even based on an evidence. It would be important to find out.
The argument stated is flawed, as it missed many important details necessary in order to analyse it properly. All of these details can weaken or streghten the argument dramatically.
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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: 520 350
No. of Characters: 2442 1500
No. of Different Words: 226 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.775 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.696 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.511 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 157 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 127 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 86 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 52 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.8 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.542 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.36 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.299 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.496 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.117 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 7, column 978, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a word
Suggestion: the
...case, that the highway is comparable to the the Blue Highway. The argument mentio...
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Line 7, column 978, Rule ID: DT_DT[1]
Message: Maybe you need to remove one determiner so that only 'the' or 'the' is left.
Suggestion: the; the
...case, that the highway is comparable to the the Blue Highway. The argument mentio...
^^^^^^^
Line 15, column 617, Rule ID: PRP_PAST_PART[2]
Message: Did you mean 'have been' or 'be'?
Suggestion: have been; be
...o get to their job. This question might been asked only one part of the neighborhood...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, however, if, may, so, well, as well as, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 31.0 19.6327345309 158% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 12.9520958084 170% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 13.6137724551 103% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 28.8173652695 97% => OK
Preposition: 67.0 55.5748502994 121% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 16.3942115768 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2530.0 2260.96107784 112% => OK
No of words: 520.0 441.139720559 118% => OK
Chars per words: 4.86538461538 5.12650576532 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77530192783 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.61255725988 2.78398813304 94% => OK
Unique words: 224.0 204.123752495 110% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.430769230769 0.468620217663 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 800.1 705.55239521 113% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 4.96107784431 222% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 19.7664670659 126% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.8622833417 57.8364921388 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 101.2 119.503703932 85% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8 23.324526521 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.56 5.70786347227 45% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 6.88822355289 145% => 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: 0.141946559592 0.218282227539 65% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0429402632688 0.0743258471296 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0544358988077 0.0701772020484 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0747808823048 0.128457276422 58% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0666181640865 0.0628817314937 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 14.3799401198 83% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 48.3550499002 123% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 12.197005988 81% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.97 12.5979740519 87% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.45 8.32208582834 90% => OK
difficult_words: 93.0 98.500998004 94% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 12.3882235529 85% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.9071856287 84% => 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.