The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a local newspaper in Masontown:
“If we want to save money on municipal garbage disposal fees, we need to encourage our residents to recycle more. Late last year, our neighboring town, Hayesworth, passed a law requiring that all households recycle paper and glass, or pay a fine. Since that time, Hayesworth has seen its garbage disposal costs significantly decrease. If we implemented an advertising campaign encouraging our residents to recycle, Masontown would also save money on disposal of its waste.”
Write a response in which you discuss what questions would need to be answered 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 that the adoption of an advertising campaign to raise awareness among citizens for all that concerns recycling would reduce garbage disposal costs of Masontown, may seem logical at first glance. However, the author relies mostly on some unsupported assumptions, that should be clarified by addressing him some questions.
First, it is not clear if in Hayesworth the law on the garbage was the one that have made the biggest change. For instance, some information about the population of the city is needed to understand whether there had been a decrease in number of citizens during the last year that could have led to consume less garbage and, thus, to the reduction of the disposal costs. Moreover, this information would be also crucial in order to understandand if the situation considered is similiar to the one of Masontown and if the two cities are confrontable in terms of number of inhabitants.
In addition, it is not clear by the text the relationship between the implementation of the law and its direct results. The author need to answer a some questions regarding a more complex analysis of the data provided to understand if the economic benefits of the law were more caused by the increasing recycling attitude of inhabitant or by people who had to pay the fine. In fact, if the scenario was more similar to the ladder rather than to the former, the advertising campaign mentioned could not have all the results wanted.
Furthermore, the economic side of the argument should be taken into deeper consideration. The author needs to ask questions about the relationship between the money invested on the advertisment campaign and the income deriving from it. In fact, it is not clear whether the effects provided by the implementation of the policy will, economically speaking, overweight or at least equalize, the costs deriving from it.
In conclusion, the author is not completely wrong while stating that an advirtisment campaign would provide benefits to his town in terms of people starting recycling garbage. However, his thesis should be strenghten by adding more evidence and by making clearer some points of his reasoning that seem quite illogical by asking to some specific questions. First he needs to make a comparison between the city of Hayesworth and his own city in terms of number of inhabitant and their rate of growth. Seocndly, he need to clarify whether Hayesworth's benefits derive mostly on the increment of recycling or from the fine payed by citizens. Last, he need to answer questions about the financial costs of this policy and to explain how he is sure to have back the money invested, by analyzing every possible scenario.
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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: 16 15
No. of Words: 446 350
No. of Characters: 2195 1500
No. of Different Words: 204 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.596 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.922 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.8 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 162 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 122 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 96 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 56 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 27.875 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.395 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.812 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.335 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.579 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.101 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 5 5
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, furthermore, however, if, may, moreover, regarding, so, thus, while, at least, for instance, in addition, in conclusion, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 16.0 19.6327345309 81% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.9520958084 100% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 11.1786427146 98% => OK
Relative clauses : 8.0 13.6137724551 59% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 25.0 28.8173652695 87% => OK
Preposition: 80.0 55.5748502994 144% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 16.3942115768 104% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2247.0 2260.96107784 99% => OK
No of words: 446.0 441.139720559 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.03811659193 5.12650576532 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5955099915 4.56307096286 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86505063692 2.78398813304 103% => OK
Unique words: 212.0 204.123752495 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.47533632287 0.468620217663 101% => OK
syllable_count: 702.0 705.55239521 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59920159681 100% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 4.96107784431 161% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.70958083832 37% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.67365269461 0% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.22255489022 142% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 19.7664670659 81% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 22.8473053892 118% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.1297660057 57.8364921388 81% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.4375 119.503703932 118% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.875 23.324526521 120% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.8125 5.70786347227 154% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 5.15768463074 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.25449101796 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.20758483034 85% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 6.88822355289 87% => 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: 0.126780528427 0.218282227539 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0420202946102 0.0743258471296 57% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0305530823634 0.0701772020484 44% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0704102215946 0.128457276422 55% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0270089131271 0.0628817314937 43% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.2 14.3799401198 113% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.3550499002 91% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.1628742515 123% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.197005988 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.25 12.5979740519 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.52 8.32208582834 102% => OK
difficult_words: 100.0 98.500998004 102% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 12.3882235529 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.1389221557 115% => 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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