The following appeared in a letter to the editor of a local newspaper.
Commuters complain that increased rush-hour traffic on Blue Highway between the suburbs and the city center has doubled their commuting time. The favored proposal of the motorists' lobby is to widen the highway, adding an additional lane of traffic. But last year's addition of a lane to the nearby Green Highway was followed by a worsening of traffic jams on it. A better alternative is to add a bicycle lane to Blue Highway. Many area residents are keen bicyclists. A bicycle lane would encourage them to use bicycles to commute, and so would reduce rush-hour traffic rather than fostering an increase.
Write a response in which you discuss what specific evidence is needed to evaluate the argument and explain how the evidence would weaken or strengthen the argument.
The argument is about the complaint from some commuters on Blue highway about the traffic which has doubled their commuting time. There are two proposals which have been presented to reduce traffic. The first one is to widen the Blue highway by adding a lane of traffic which was not a successful project for the Green highway. The second one is to add a bicycle lane to the Blue highway. The reason is that the majority of residents in near areas like cycling. In this essay, two proposals will be checked accurately.
On the one hand, the first proposal is to widen the highway, and the author has pointed out that widening the highway is not a practical way because it has been run on Green highway and the traffic has become worse. If we consider that the two highways have the same conditions this hypothesis can be true, but if two highways have different conditions, we can not say accurately this way does not work. Without enough information and evidence, we can not say exactly whether this offer can be practical or not.
On the other hand, in the second proposal adding a bicycle lane is offered. For this offer, at first, the amount of people’s interest should be checked. We have to know whether they like cycling or not. Do they really like cycling? Do they really accept to use bicycles rather than other types of transports? How many people tend to use a bicycle? Has this work enough safety for people? We have to consider that even though people accept to use the bicycle does not mean that they accept to ride bicycle long distances. In addition to this, people who want to ride the bicycle should be well trained.
In this argument, for reducing the traffic, only the change of highway has been offered. But we have to see whether the problem is only physically and is related to the shape of the highway. Has the highway other types of problems, including illegal speed and traffic accidents? We also have to consider other fundamental problems on the highways. If the highway has other problems, with adding a lane, the problem will not be solved. So, the proposal related to this subject will not be practical.
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Comments
Essay evaluation report
Attribute Value Ideal
Final score: 3.5 out of 6
Category: Satisfactory Excellent
No. of Grammatical Errors: 0 2
No. of Spelling Errors: 0 2
No. of Sentences: 24 15
No. of Words: 379 350
No. of Characters: 1713 1500
No. of Different Words: 156 200
Fourth Root of Number of Words: 4.412 4.7
Average Word Length: 4.52 4.6
Word Length SD: 2.276 2.4
No. of Words greater than 5 chars: 120 100
No. of Words greater than 6 chars: 92 80
No. of Words greater than 7 chars: 46 40
No. of Words greater than 8 chars: 24 20
Use of Passive Voice (%): 0 0
Avg. Sentence Length: 15.792 21.0
Sentence Length SD: 8.114 7.5
Use of Discourse Markers (%): 0.542 0.12
Sentence-Text Coherence: 0.295 0.35
Sentence-Para Coherence: 0.471 0.50
Sentence-Sentence Coherence: 0.165 0.07
Number of Paragraphs: 4 5
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 390, 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.
...add a bicycle lane to the Blue highway. The reason is that the majority of resident...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, if, really, second, so, well, in addition, on the other hand
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 : 9.0 11.1786427146 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 13.6137724551 66% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 27.0 28.8173652695 94% => OK
Preposition: 45.0 55.5748502994 81% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 16.3942115768 30% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1779.0 2260.96107784 79% => OK
No of words: 379.0 441.139720559 86% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.69393139842 5.12650576532 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.41224685777 4.56307096286 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.4133957577 2.78398813304 87% => OK
Unique words: 169.0 204.123752495 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.445910290237 0.468620217663 95% => OK
syllable_count: 548.1 705.55239521 78% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.59920159681 88% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.96107784431 101% => OK
Article: 8.0 8.76447105788 91% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 2.70958083832 74% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.67365269461 179% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.22255489022 213% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 24.0 19.7664670659 121% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 22.8473053892 66% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.5980496187 57.8364921388 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 74.125 119.503703932 62% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.7916666667 23.324526521 68% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.25 5.70786347227 57% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.15768463074 78% => More paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 1.0 5.25449101796 19% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 8.20758483034 134% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 6.88822355289 102% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.67664670659 128% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.126638794818 0.218282227539 58% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0406235924757 0.0743258471296 55% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.060588088649 0.0701772020484 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.093660825769 0.128457276422 73% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.081073621621 0.0628817314937 129% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 8.6 14.3799401198 60% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 73.17 48.3550499002 151% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.1628742515 43% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 6.8 12.197005988 56% => Flesch kincaid grade is low.
coleman_liau_index: 9.63 12.5979740519 76% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.21 8.32208582834 87% => OK
difficult_words: 68.0 98.500998004 69% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 6.5 12.3882235529 52% => Linsear_write_formula is low.
gunning_fog: 8.0 11.1389221557 72% => OK
text_standard: 7.0 11.9071856287 59% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
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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