The following appeared as a letter to the editor from a Central Plaza store owner.
"Over the past two years, the number of shoppers in Central Plaza has been steadily decreasing while the popularity of skateboarding has increased dramatically. Many Central Plaza store owners believe that the decrease in their business is due to the number of skateboard users in the plaza. There has also been a dramatic increase in the amount of litter and vandalism throughout the plaza. Thus, we recommend that the city prohibit skateboarding in Central Plaza. If skateboarding is prohibited here, we predict that business in Central Plaza will return to its previously high levels."
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
In the letter to the editor from a Central Plaza store owner, it is stated that prohibiting skateboarding in Central Plaza will bring back the business in Central Plaza to its previously high levels. The Central Plaza store owner has come to this conclusion based on dramatic increase in the amount of litter and vandalism throughout the plaza as well as the increase in the number of skateboard users in the plaza. However, before this recommendation can be properly evaluated, three questions must be answered.
First of all, are there complaints against the skateboarders from the Plaza users? In other words, how did the store owner claim that increased amount of litter and vandalism is caused due to the skateboarders and not any other factors? It is possible that increased amount of litter is due to irregularity or negligence from the cleaning staff. Further, there is a possibility that improper waste disposal solution implemented at the Plaza might also be a reason for this. Maybe, the number of hooligans living around the city might have increased causing the rise in Vandalism at Central Plaza. Perhaps, the skateboarders are very amiable. If either of the above scenarios has merit, then conclusion drawn in the original argument is significantly weakened.
Secondly, business at Central Plaza is dependent on what external factors? In other words, rapid development in technology and busy schedule of humans has given rise to increased usage of online retail websites and application, thus reducing the business for in person shopping. Perhaps, the shops at Central Plaza are of no interest or value to the customers living around. Maybe, the shops do not have new products that are in demand. It is possible that people prefer online shopping over driving down to the Plaza because of heavy traffic or time constraints. If any of the above is true, then the argument does not hold water.
Thirdly, will the business at Central Plaza deteriorate further by prohibiting skateboarders? It’s a possibility that skateboarders might be the major part of the consumers at Central Plaza. Perhaps, having skateboarders in the Central Plaza attracts the attention of people with their tricks and entertaining show. By prohibiting skateboarders in the Plaza, it might create a humdrum environment which further brings down the business. If the above are true, then the original argument loses its position.
In conclusion, the argument as it stands now is considerably flawed due to its reliance on several unwarranted assumptions. If the store owner is able to answer the three questions above and offer more evidence (perhaps with a better survey), then it will be possible to fully evaluate the viability of the proposed recommendation to prohibit skateboarders from Central Plaza, in order to bring back the business to its previous high levels.
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Comments
e-rater score 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: 23 15
No. of Words: 463 350
No. of Characters: 2344 1500
No. of Different Words: 208 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.639 4.7
Average Word Length: 5.063 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.838 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 165 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 126 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 96 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 54 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 20.13 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 10.318 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.565 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.316 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.498 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.071 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, third, thirdly, thus, well, in conclusion, as well as, first of all, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 19.6327345309 107% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 9.0 12.9520958084 69% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 11.1786427146 89% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 22.0 28.8173652695 76% => OK
Preposition: 75.0 55.5748502994 135% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 16.3942115768 91% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2409.0 2260.96107784 107% => OK
No of words: 463.0 441.139720559 105% => OK
Chars per words: 5.2030237581 5.12650576532 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.63868890866 4.56307096286 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90360795821 2.78398813304 104% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 204.123752495 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.45788336933 0.468620217663 98% => OK
syllable_count: 754.2 705.55239521 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 6.0 8.76447105788 68% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.22255489022 166% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 19.7664670659 116% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.8473053892 88% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.6940846559 57.8364921388 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.739130435 119.503703932 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.1304347826 23.324526521 86% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.17391304348 5.70786347227 108% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.20758483034 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 6.88822355289 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.67664670659 150% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.354794922416 0.218282227539 163% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.109976255853 0.0743258471296 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.112604800778 0.0701772020484 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.226472664728 0.128457276422 176% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.110878633936 0.0628817314937 176% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.3799401198 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.3550499002 106% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.88 12.5979740519 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.14 8.32208582834 98% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 98.500998004 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.1389221557 90% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.9071856287 118% => 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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