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, the owner concludes that the number of shoppers have steadily decreased due to a dramatic increase in the popularity of skateboarding. He recommends that the city prohibit skateboarding in order to restore the previously high levels of business. He further predicts that the prohibition of skateboarding will decrease the amount of litter and vandalism throughout the plaza. While his prediction might be true, it rests on three unanswered questions that may significantly diminish the validity of his claim.
First, is it confirmed that the shoppers at Central Plaza have no other alternative? Perhaps the shoppers now prefer purchasing goods online with the ease of delivery at their doorsteps and hence, they no longer shop at Central Plaza. It is also possible that a new and improved store with more options has recently opened in the town where Central Plaza is located and most shoppers prefer to do their shopping there. If these scenarios prove true, then the author’s claim that skateboarders have reduced the number of shoppers at the plaza is greatly undermined.
Secondly, has there been any event in the town where Central Plaza is located that could lead to increased littering and vandalism? It is possible that there might have been a recent protest or riot in the city and as normal with riots, protesters may have vandalized properties in the town. In addition, there may have been a recent political rally where a lot of people will come together. It is likely that in such situations that a great amount of litter will be one of the results of a large gathering of people. If this proves true, then the argument that an increased number of skateboarders led to an increased amount of litter and vandalism, holds no water.
Finally, is the previously high levels of business in the plaza significant? Perhaps a lot of people visited the plaza in the past where tourists in the summer who may have gone back to their places of residence. It is also possible that a large number of people who visited the plaza in the past were there for other purposes which did not include shopping. If these prove true, then the author’s recommendation that skateboarding be prohibited will have only a trivial effect on business levels.
In conclusion, the author’s prediction that a prohibition of skateboarding will return Central Plaza to previously high levels of business as well as reduce the amount of litter and vandalism may be correct. However, as it stands now, for the author to increase the persuasiveness of his claim, he needs to answer the three questions above.
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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: 5 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 4 2
No. of Sentences: 19 15
No. of Words: 446 350
No. of Characters: 2161 1500
No. of Different Words: 188 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.596 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.845 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.728 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 148 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 108 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 84 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 49 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 23.474 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 5.879 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.789 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.348 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.348 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.142 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 1 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 4, column 238, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
... of residence. It is also possible that a large number of people who visited the plaza in the pas...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, hence, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, then, well, while, in addition, in conclusion, as well as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.6327345309 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 22.0 13.6137724551 162% => OK
Pronoun: 35.0 28.8173652695 121% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 62.0 55.5748502994 112% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 16.3942115768 49% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2212.0 2260.96107784 98% => OK
No of words: 446.0 441.139720559 101% => OK
Chars per words: 4.95964125561 5.12650576532 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5955099915 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.81182725984 2.78398813304 101% => OK
Unique words: 198.0 204.123752495 97% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.443946188341 0.468620217663 95% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 686.7 705.55239521 97% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59920159681 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 4.96107784431 181% => OK
Article: 2.0 8.76447105788 23% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 2.70958083832 185% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 4.22255489022 71% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 19.7664670659 96% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 22.8473053892 101% => OK
Sentence length SD: 32.9883719965 57.8364921388 57% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 116.421052632 119.503703932 97% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.4736842105 23.324526521 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.63157894737 5.70786347227 116% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 8.20758483034 171% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 6.88822355289 29% => More negative sentences wanted.
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: 0.310214168306 0.218282227539 142% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.103738712692 0.0743258471296 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.115312961442 0.0701772020484 164% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.179736262659 0.128457276422 140% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0873120835795 0.0628817314937 139% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 14.3799401198 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.3550499002 117% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.197005988 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.78 12.5979740519 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.25 8.32208582834 99% => OK
difficult_words: 98.0 98.500998004 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 12.3882235529 93% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.1389221557 101% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.9071856287 101% => 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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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.