The following appeared in a letter to the editor of the Balmer Island Gazette.
"The population on Balmer Island increases to 100,000 during the summer months. To reduce the number of accidents involving mopeds and pedestrians, the town council of Balmer Island plans to limit the number of mopeds rented by each of the island's six moped rental companies from 50 per day to 30 per day during the summer season. Last year, the neighboring island of Torseau enforced similar limits on moped rentals and saw a 50 percent reduction in moped accidents. We predict that putting these limits into effect on Balmer Island will result in the same reduction in moped accidents."
Write a response in which you discuss one or more alternative explanations that could rival the proposed explanation and explain how your explanation(s) can plausibly account for the facts presented in the argument.
The argument stated information regarding a letter to editor of the Balmer Island Gazette, mentioning that reducing the limit of rental Mopeds will reduce the accidents. The argument is rife with assumptions and not provided supporting evidence to draw any claim. The argument is not sufficient to make cogent case for claiming that reducing limit of rental mopeds will reduce the accidental risk in the town.
First of all, in the beginning the argument provided the data of population increase by 100,000 during summer months in Balmer Island. This information is insufficient to provide the data regarding the accidental increase in the town. The new born will take years to get a driving license, that is why this is incomplete information to show the reason of town council's decision.
Secondly, if the accident rate is high in the town, how rental mopeds on-road are main target of reduction. The rising accidents can be due to other vehicles as well like cars, motorbikes etc. It can also be due to driver's negligence. The author did not provide supporting evidence to show the impact of Mopeds on accidents and how reducing rental Mopeds will reduce the overall rate of accidents.
Since, it is mentioned that Torseau Island enforced that same law and reduce the limit of rentals which results into reduced Mopeds accidents cannot take into consideration the accidental problem of the Balmer island. First of all, both cities can be different in terms of area, population, drivers and driving laws. The law was enforced last year in Torseau island and this year scenario might have been changed. Another reason is, Balmer isalnd may be facing accidents other than Mopeds also. The argument is unable to support this idea of reduction in accidents.
Therefore, the argument is unable to provide the valid evidence to claim that reducing the limit of Mopeds will also reduce the Balmer island's accident rate. To strengthen the argument, the author would have been benefited by providing the supporting evidence of type of accidents happening in Balmer island and considering the issue collectively to draw any claim of reduction of accidents.
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Comments
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: 16 15
No. of Words: 353 350
No. of Characters: 1766 1500
No. of Different Words: 158 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.335 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.003 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.587 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 143 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 94 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 74 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 44 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 22.062 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 6.896 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.5 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.369 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.596 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.081 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 265, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
... supporting evidence to draw any claim. The argument is not sufficient to make coge...
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Line 9, column 167, Rule ID: AS_ADJ_AS[1]
Message: Comparison is written "as well 'as'".
Suggestion: as
...ts can be due to other vehicles as well like cars, motorbikes etc. It can also be du...
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Line 13, column 491, Rule ID: ALSO_SENT_END[1]
Message: 'Also' is not used at the end of the sentence. Use 'as well' instead.
Suggestion: as well
...y be facing accidents other than Mopeds also. The argument is unable to support this...
^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, if, may, regarding, second, secondly, so, then, therefore, well, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 18.0 19.6327345309 92% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.9520958084 93% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 11.1786427146 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 7.0 13.6137724551 51% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 12.0 28.8173652695 42% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 55.5748502994 97% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 16.3942115768 122% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1819.0 2260.96107784 80% => OK
No of words: 353.0 441.139720559 80% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.15297450425 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.33454660006 4.56307096286 95% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63176006348 2.78398813304 95% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 204.123752495 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.458923512748 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 571.5 705.55239521 81% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 4.0 4.96107784431 81% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.76447105788 114% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 2.0 4.22255489022 47% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 17.0 19.7664670659 86% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.083736111 57.8364921388 87% => OK
Chars per sentence: 107.0 119.503703932 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.7647058824 23.324526521 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.29411764706 5.70786347227 93% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 5.25449101796 57% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 8.20758483034 24% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 11.0 6.88822355289 160% => 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: 0.295345528624 0.218282227539 135% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0993712399538 0.0743258471296 134% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0934069258521 0.0701772020484 133% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.175299213767 0.128457276422 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0375012831855 0.0628817314937 60% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.3799401198 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.59 12.5979740519 100% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.03 8.32208582834 96% => OK
difficult_words: 76.0 98.500998004 77% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 12.3882235529 89% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.9071856287 109% => 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
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