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.
Author argues that skateboarding is the main reason behind drop in business in central plaza but does not provide enough evidence to strengthen his claim. The only evidence supporting his/her claim is the opinion of the store owners. Although skateboarding can plausibly be one of the reasons of loss in business other factors are probably neglected. The author doesn’t provide any information on the state of the regional economy which can have a profound impact on store sales. Like in 2008 financial crisis people had to cut down on their spending leading to loss in revenues of store owners. High inflation, unemployment rates and other macroeconomic factors can also affect the business. Until a causal relationship between skateboarding and loss in business is established the effect of prohibition of skateboarding on business can’t be ascertained.
In the second argument author claims skateboarding is the cause of increased vandalism and litter. As discussed in the first paragraph in case of a deteriorating economy, the plaza administration can cut down on janitorial services. For instance if the plaza was cleaned daily before and weekly now it will lead to increase in litter in Plaza. The author does not provide any information to support that skateboarders are causing vandalism. A new gang may have come in neighbourhood who are involved in vandalism. We need to know how the neighbourhood has changed to draw upon any conclusions. Also even if the skateboarders are littering and vandalising the place there is no information that vandalism and littering are causing the drop in business. A representative survey can be conducted to collect his information.
In conclusion, the author does not provide persuasive evidence to support his recommendation. There is no evidence that skateboarding is the cause of loss in business and prohibiting it will lead to improvement of business
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: “Although” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
...aim is the opinion of the store owners. Although skateboarding can plausibly be one of t...
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Line 3, column 595, Rule ID: SENT_START_CONJUNCTIVE_LINKING_ADVERB_COMMA[1]
Message: Did you forget a comma after a conjunctive/linking adverb?
Suggestion: Also,
...s changed to draw upon any conclusions. Also even if the skateboarders are littering...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'if', 'may', 'second', 'so', 'then', 'for instance', 'in conclusion']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.270186335404 0.25644967241 105% => OK
Verbs: 0.198757763975 0.15541462614 128% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0621118012422 0.0836205057962 74% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0372670807453 0.0520304965353 72% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0217391304348 0.0272364105082 80% => OK
Prepositions: 0.142857142857 0.125424944231 114% => OK
Participles: 0.0714285714286 0.0416121511921 172% => OK
Conjunctions: 3.2536299906 2.79052419416 117% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0310559006211 0.026700313972 116% => OK
Particles: 0.00621118012422 0.001811407834 343% => OK
Determiners: 0.0993788819876 0.113004496875 88% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0248447204969 0.0255425247493 97% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00931677018634 0.0127820249294 73% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 1911.0 2731.13054187 70% => OK
No of words: 303.0 446.07635468 68% => More words wanted.
Chars per words: 6.30693069307 6.12365571057 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.17215713816 4.57801047555 91% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.39603960396 0.378187486979 105% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.316831683168 0.287650121315 110% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.237623762376 0.208842608468 114% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.168316831683 0.135150697306 125% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.2536299906 2.79052419416 117% => OK
Unique words: 155.0 207.018472906 75% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.511551155116 0.469332199767 109% => OK
Word variations: 51.5081739055 52.1807786196 99% => OK
How many sentences: 17.0 20.039408867 85% => OK
Sentence length: 17.8235294118 23.2022227129 77% => OK
Sentence length SD: 29.0800113278 57.7814097925 50% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.411764706 141.986410481 79% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.8235294118 23.2022227129 77% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.588235294118 0.724660767414 81% => OK
Paragraphs: 3.0 5.14285714286 58% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 2.0 3.58251231527 56% => OK
Readability: 49.5066977286 51.9672348444 95% => OK
Elegance: 1.87951807229 1.8405768891 102% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.407770974591 0.441005458295 92% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.10469001889 0.135418324435 77% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0591534694818 0.0829849096947 71% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.489565711406 0.58762219726 83% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.132397972417 0.147661913831 90% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.169658938669 0.193483328276 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0806077157415 0.0970749176394 83% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.482320899883 0.42659136922 113% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.038323848657 0.0774707102158 49% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.303362770571 0.312017818177 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.07154100009 0.0698173142475 102% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.33743842365 60% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 6.87684729064 116% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.82512315271 83% => OK
Positive topic words: 5.0 6.46551724138 77% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 5.36822660099 93% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.82389162562 106% => OK
Total topic words: 13.0 14.657635468 89% => OK
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Rates: 50.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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