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 argument may seem coherent, it is nevertheless belied and subject to further investigation to be wholely cogent and logical. The author of the letter suggests that as a popular way of transportation, mopeds users has culminated during summer, while leaves no comments for conditions for winter. By assuming that less users will use mopeds in winters, the author overlooked possibilities that it is the snowy and slippery road condition that give rise to more accidents during winter. this in turn will contradict the advise to reduce usage of mopeds only in summer. Or, it would deprave the logical chain if the actual situation is that because the Balmer island posits on the equator, weather in winters is almost as nice as that of summers. Thus usage is evenly spreaded through out the whole year and only by restraining use in summer will not allievate the fatal condition of frequent accidents.
what's more, causes of these accidents involving mopeds are left blank, allowing numerous factors to come in effact. For example, the transportation system is not friendly enough - no traffic lights for pedestrains, no signs for possible crossing, no stop signs, et al. - for pedestrains in balmar island where people are forced to risk their lives when passing down a road. it is hardly a problem of population of mopeds that is crucial in this matter, given the accident rate overall is exponentially high due to the poor development of the system. it would be counterproductive to confine usage of mopeds because choosing to walk is a more dangerous selection.
To reduce the population of mopeds, the author contends that the town council should limit the number rented by the rental companies. The presumption underlies behind such measure is that the population of mopeds can be distributed larged to rentals, with minorities to owned ones. And hence, evidence of statistics of different sources of the mopeds should be presented, and without which, the advise is effete and may lead the solutions to a totally wrong direction. Moreover, numbers should be provided in order to estimate by how many should the council ask to reduce from the rental companies.
The author also predicts that by implementing the methods that he gives in the letter, the town should be able to put the poor condition involving mopeds under control because of what was achieved in the previous year in the constigeous island of seaville. However, what if the situation of island of seavile differ significantly? it is likely that during the last year, enactment of regulations were valid on island of seaville because technology has not been fully developed and people considered mopeds a less comfortable way of transportation. Whereas this year, due to the advancing of mopeds, people are more reluctant to give their main form of transportation up. what's more, the successful experience of island of seaville is not a determinant for a positive outcome of the reforms on balmar island. In a similar manner of what was aforementioned, the reason for accidents between the two island may be utterly different, where there is no cure-all for all complex situation.
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Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 4.5 out of 6
Category: Good Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 16 15
No. of Words: 520 350
No. of Characters: 2580 1500
No. of Different Words: 255 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.775 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.962 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.799 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 213 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 134 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 90 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 62 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 32.5 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 16.804 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.688 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.32 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.537 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.089 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 317, Rule ID: FEWER_LESS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'fewer'? The noun users is countable.
Suggestion: fewer
...conditions for winter. By assuming that less users will use mopeds in winters, the a...
^^^^
Line 1, column 489, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: This
...e rise to more accidents during winter. this in turn will contradict the advise to r...
^^^^
Line 1, column 518, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...ng winter. this in turn will contradict the advise to reduce usage of mopeds only in summe...
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Line 1, column 522, Rule ID: GIVE_ADVISE[2]
Message: Did you mean 'advice' (a noun)?
Suggestion: advice
...inter. this in turn will contradict the advise to reduce usage of mopeds only in summe...
^^^^^^
Line 1, column 529, Rule ID: ALLOW_TO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'reducing'? Or maybe you should add a pronoun? In active voice, 'advise' + 'to' takes an object, usually a pronoun.
Suggestion: reducing
...this in turn will contradict the advise to reduce usage of mopeds only in summer. Or, it ...
^^^^^^^^^
Line 1, column 748, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Thus,
...s is almost as nice as that of summers. Thus usage is evenly spreaded through out th...
^^^^
Line 1, column 778, Rule ID: THROUGH_OUT[1]
Message: Did you mean 'throughout'?
Suggestion: throughout
... summers. Thus usage is evenly spreaded through out the whole year and only by restraining ...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Whats
...l condition of frequent accidents. whats more, causes of these accidents involvi...
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Line 5, column 1, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: what's
...l condition of frequent accidents. whats more, causes of these accidents involvi...
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Line 5, column 271, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...ssible crossing, no stop signs, et al. - for pedestrains in balmar island where p...
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Line 5, column 376, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
...k their lives when passing down a road. it is hardly a problem of population of mo...
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Line 5, column 552, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
... to the poor development of the system. it would be counterproductive to confine u...
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Line 9, column 392, Rule ID: A_INFINITVE[1]
Message: Probably a wrong construction: a/the + infinitive
...should be presented, and without which, the advise is effete and may lead the solutions to...
^^^^^^^^^^
Line 9, column 396, Rule ID: GIVE_ADVISE[2]
Message: Did you mean 'advice' (a noun)?
Suggestion: advice
...ld be presented, and without which, the advise is effete and may lead the solutions to...
^^^^^^
Line 13, column 332, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: It
...island of seavile differ significantly? it is likely that during the last year, en...
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Line 13, column 672, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: what's
...e their main form of transportation up. whats more, the successful experience of isla...
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Line 13, column 809, Rule ID: IN_A_X_MANNER[1]
Message: Consider replacing "In a similar manner" with adverb for "similar"; eg, "in a hasty manner" with "hastily".
...utcome of the reforms on balmar island. In a similar manner of what was aforementioned, the reason ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, look, may, moreover, nevertheless, so, thus, whereas, while, for example
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 29.0 19.6327345309 148% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.9520958084 108% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 11.1786427146 72% => OK
Relative clauses : 16.0 13.6137724551 118% => OK
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 80.0 55.5748502994 144% => OK
Nominalization: 22.0 16.3942115768 134% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2646.0 2260.96107784 117% => OK
No of words: 520.0 441.139720559 118% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08846153846 5.12650576532 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.77530192783 4.56307096286 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.88388949202 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 269.0 204.123752495 132% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.517307692308 0.468620217663 110% => OK
syllable_count: 827.1 705.55239521 117% => 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: 11.0 8.76447105788 126% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.67365269461 119% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.22255489022 95% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 19.7664670659 106% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 22.8473053892 105% => OK
Sentence length SD: 42.6653379895 57.8364921388 74% => OK
Chars per sentence: 126.0 119.503703932 105% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.7619047619 23.324526521 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.90476190476 5.70786347227 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 17.0 5.25449101796 324% => Less language errors wanted.
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 8.20758483034 73% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 12.0 6.88822355289 174% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.67664670659 64% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.215047827371 0.218282227539 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0618500214363 0.0743258471296 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0359155191823 0.0701772020484 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.121289231287 0.128457276422 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0375631702976 0.0628817314937 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.9 14.3799401198 104% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.3550499002 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.197005988 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.54 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.14 8.32208582834 110% => OK
difficult_words: 142.0 98.500998004 144% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.1389221557 104% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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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