The following appeared in a letter to the editor of the Balmer Island Gazette.
"On Balmer Island, where mopeds serve as a popular form of transportation, the population increases to 100,000 during the summer months. To reduce the number of accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians, the town council of Balmer Island should limit the number of mopeds rented by the island's moped rental companies from 50 per day to 25 per day during the summer season. By limiting the number of rentals, the town council will attain the 50 percent annual reduction in moped accidents that was achieved last year on the neighboring island of Seaville, when Seaville's town council enforced similar limits on moped rentals."
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered in order to decide whether the recommendation is likely to have the predicted result. Be sure to explain how the answers to these questions would help to evaluate the recommendation.
The recommendation that reducing the number of mopeds in Balmer Island would have a direct positive effect on the number of pedestrian moped accidents during the summer is based on number of unwarranted assumptions. Taken as a whole, these unstated assumptions render the recommendation highly suspect. Indeed, if these unstated assumptions do not hold true the recommendation would totally fall apart.
The argument assumes that what proved to be true for Seaville town will certainly be true for Balmer Island. Further, it assumes that Seaville population is the same as that of Balmer island and that ratio of pedestrian to moped is also the same. It is quite likely that the pedestrian moped ratio is quite high already as compared to that of Balmer Island and that further enforcing limitation on moped rentals lead Seaville’s town to the desired results. Thus, unless the argument provides us sufficient information regarding the similarity between Seaville Island and Balmer Island, it is hard to conclude that Balmer Island would achieve the results that the neighboring Island of Seaville achieved.
Further, the argument assumes that things would not drastically change this year as compared to last year. The premise in support to achieve the desired result is based upon the assumption that what last year’s trend would follow. It is possible that, this year the Island might receive a higher or lower number of pedestrians visiting the Island due to several possible reasons such as weather conditions, economy etc. Thus, unless the we know for sure that the trend would continue it is hard to take the recommendation on face value.
Third, the recommendation is based on an assumption that reducing the number of rental moped does not affect the overall number of moped on the Island. For example, it does not provide any information weather pedestrians can buy a moped or simply ship it across the island for use. Also, it is possible that the number of accidents caused were because of the residents on the Balmer Island who own a moped. In that case, reducing the number of rental mopeds would not lead to a reduction in the accidents. Thus, unless the argument provides further details on the total number of mopeds in the Island, the recommendation is flawed.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo. Did you mean 'the' or 'we'?
Suggestion: the; we
...r conditions, economy etc. Thus, unless the we know for sure that the trend would cont...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, if, regarding, so, third, thus, for example, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 15.0 19.6327345309 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.9520958084 77% => OK
Conjunction : 5.0 11.1786427146 45% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 18.0 13.6137724551 132% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 28.8173652695 108% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 55.5748502994 76% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1925.0 2260.96107784 85% => OK
No of words: 377.0 441.139720559 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.10610079576 5.12650576532 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.4064143971 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.75934493655 2.78398813304 99% => OK
Unique words: 161.0 204.123752495 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.427055702918 0.468620217663 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 596.7 705.55239521 85% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Interrogative: 0.0 0.471057884232 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 2.70958083832 148% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.22255489022 24% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => 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: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 46.4877335972 57.8364921388 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.3125 119.503703932 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.5625 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.625 5.70786347227 64% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.20758483034 61% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.88822355289 131% => OK
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: 0.284509308864 0.218282227539 130% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.104799812694 0.0743258471296 141% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0836792391315 0.0701772020484 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.180364999724 0.128457276422 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0675926524841 0.0628817314937 107% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.4 14.3799401198 100% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 48.3550499002 100% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 12.197005988 101% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.65 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.09 8.32208582834 97% => OK
difficult_words: 79.0 98.500998004 80% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.9071856287 92% => 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 -- 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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